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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 Tube

It's meant to be a quick and easy way to be protected from wind and coldness, if necessary. The shelter has the shape of a tube which has an adjustable length so one or two people can fit in it. The tube has a self-supporting design, this is due to a spiral of tubes filled with air. This fabric is coated with aluminum which will reflect the cold coming from the outside but it will keep and reflect instead some of the heat generated from the body inside the tube.