Innovative Products
Goalkeeper gloves with integrated textile finger overstretch protection
Withstanding the force of 120 kilometers/hour… Often a fingertip length decides between victory and defeat. When we currently watch a goalkeeper elegantly deflect the ball over the crossbar during the…
Technological Ray of Hope for the Snowboard Scene
New snowboard from Chemnitz is lighter than comparable boards and can be manufactured far more ecologically – the Department of Textile Technologies uses the dry fiber placement process. The snowboard…
A smart ring shows it’s possible to detect fever before you feel it
Advance could pave the way for early warning system on COVID-19 and flu using wearables. Temperature data collected by wearable devices worn on the finger can be reliably used to…
UMass Amherst scientists invent new sensing eye mask
Wearable soft mask will be useful for new, cutting-edge sleep and psycho-social studies From the team that invented physiology-sensing pajamas at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, now comes a new,…
Designing a puncture-free tire
To address some of the issues, University of Illinois researchers focused on one component of the tire–the shear layer, which is just beneath the tread.
A rail system allows child seat to be simply attached to the wheelchair
The rail system, which curves around the wheelchair, resembles a bicycle frame. A child seat can be attached to it in a few simple steps. “The seat can be…
Stroke patients relearning how to walk with peculiar shoe
Stroke sufferers experience muscle weakness or partial paralysis on one side of the body, which greatly impacts how they walk, known as gait. Gait asymmetry is…
A ski jacket that actively gets rid of sweat
Man is a warm-blooded animal. If it gets too hot for him, he can tune down his body temperature. This feat is achieved by an evolutionarily refined “AC system”…
A fashionable chemical and biological threat detector-on-a-ring
According to a global analyst firm called CCS Insight, wearable electronics will be a $34 billion industry by 2020. Wearable chemical sensors currently in…
Healthy Hiking in Smart Socks
Researchers of the Chemnitz University of Technology develop tough electronic for sport and medical science
