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Ohmatex, a smart textile technology company, has launched its first fully washable connector, designed specifically to provide connectivity for smart textile products currently in development.

Google has woven conductive threads into sections of clothing to turn them into touch-sensitive panels that work like smartphone screens

What is Smart Textile? Smart textile, e-textiles, intelligent or multifunctional textiles: many names are used to designate these textiles which do a little more than the others. But basically, what distinguishes intelligent textiles from more

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Leah Buechley at the MIT Media Lab made a compilation video of many LilyPad Arduino projects, including our own blinky bike patch and my LilyPad Arduino

Paint drips, splashes and a burst of colour darned together with threads which dart in between like spiders dancing across the canvas and weaving webs in purpose designed spaces. Textile artist Nava Lubelski creates wonderfully vibrant pieces. I am fascinated in how she bridges the gap between a once throwaway and often damaged piece of textile and to transform it into a work of art. Nava talks about her art: "My work explores the contradictions between the impulse to destroy and the…