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The smart textile arena is characterized by application referring to real smart textiles, high performance textiles and wearable technologies. The aim of this project is to investigate how this new smart textile arena can be the playground for developing a new set of wearables that address the question of integrity and to introduce a new level of integration of smart textile in R&D and education.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Safety Shelter

The idea is that everyone should have his own “home”. It could be used for both homeless and victims from nature disasters. The safety shelter is a combination of a mattress, a sleeping bag and a wind shelter.
This rip stop fabric coated with aluminum foil, has a thermo chromic print sensitive to temperatures inferior to 8ºC and photo luminescent colors which low in the dark.