The enterprise wearable market is experiencing a shift from wrist-worn devices to body- and head-worn wearables. ABI Research forecasts enterprise wearable shipments will grow from 30 million shipments in 2016 to nearly 147 million in 2021 ...
Tags: wearable market, VR headsets
Low market demands in the past few months has driven Taiwanese LED manufacturer Harvatek to explore innovative LED technologies including forming a partnership that includes teaming up with Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) to ...
Tags: Harvatek, LEDtextile, LEDattire, LEDthread, TTRI
According to a new report from Tractica, the global wearable devices market will grow from 17.0 million device shipments in 2013 to 187.2 million units annually by 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34 percent. The ...
Tags: Wearable Device, Sporting Goods
The British product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has created a new low-cost, durable and very attractive looking smart fabricthat can track body movement. Interwoven with fibre optic thread that acts as active ...
Tags: Tracking Fabric, Apparel
The semiconductor content within wearable devices will generate a market worth $9 billion in 2019, according to market analysis company, The Information Network (New Tripoli, Pennsylvania). High-end connectivity devices for Wi-Fi, ...
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Smart clothing could help transition wearables from being a separate device to being one that users naturally wear. The technology, which is already getting the attention of athletes, features sensors that disappear into clothing. ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Clothing
Ralph Lauren Corp. has unveiled the high-performance, fashion-forward Polo Tech shirt on opening day of the US Open. The Polo Tech shirt is an innovative new product from a fashion brand that merges biometrics into active lifestyle apparel, ...
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Based out of the New York area, Mondevices Inc. has created the baby sleep monitor that fits in a button, creating the first “smart button” wearable technology. This year the “smart button” has won a prize in Smart ...
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has partnered with chemical company Toray Industries to develop Hitoe, a nanofibre-laced clothing line that uses conductive fibres to measure heart rate. Hitoe, which means ‘one layer’ in the ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Apparel
Wearable Technologies, the leading platform for technologies worn close to, on, or even in the body announced the winner of the Innovation World Cup yesterday. Wearables stepped out of the niche and early adopter market and are becoming ...
Tags: Wearable Technologies, mass market
Heapsylon, the creator of the Sensoria Fitness bio-tracking line of smart clothing, announced that it has signed a non-exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with leading British shoe manufacturer Vivobarefoot for its Sensoria Fitness ...
Fashion and technology will once again come together at the forthcoming UK's first-ever Wearable Technology Conference and Expo in London. Slated to be held from March 18 to 19, 2014, the event aims to focus on the growing acceptance of ...
Tags: Wearable Technology, Apparel
The European Union (EU) has launched a project for the development of smart clothing with wearable technology in cloud computing (cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network and means the ability to run a program ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Cloud Computing
The latest technology, applications, and advancements in the sewn products industry will be presented by experts and leaders from around the world during the Texprocess Americas Symposium being held May 13-15, 2014 at the Georgia World ...
Tags: Textile
In response to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) announcement that it plans to develop a line of “smart” clothing, CAGW excoriate postal management for its misguided attempt to step into non-postal, commercial ...
Tags: CAGW, USPS, smart clothing