Category - Wearable & Conformable Electronics

Compared to purely textile products, electronic textiles (e-textiles) offer added functionality through integrated electronic components. At yarn, textile or product level, integrated circuits enable e-textiles to e.g., heat or cool, create energy, provide sensor and actuator function, collect data or warn their users.

Wearable e-textiles in the form of garments, with miniaturized, stretchable and flexible circuits spread out over the textile, offer a comfortable and user-friendly solution for many sectors. Textile electronics are soft, thin, formable, lightweight, suitable for large area applications and can almost seamlessly disappear into the textile substrate, using innovative integration methods. Apart from medicine, rehabilitation and care, personal or professional protective equipment and sports, e-textiles are used for industrial applications, in buildings and vehicles as well as for immersive computing.