Over the years, we've seen many examples of smart garments packed with technology to monitor different aspects of a wearer's physical wellbeing, but lately we're seeing how very fine, conductive ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The integration of electronics into clothing promises to transform how we interact with technology, but the fundamental materials have consistently fallen short. Attempts to weave ...

Plenty of people just plain dislike wearing jewelry, even (or especially) smart watches. Nevertheless, they’d like to have biofeedback like everybody else. Well, we watch-less ones have something to ...

The buildings of the future could be built with the help of drones. The unmanned aerial vehicles were put to the test in the University of Stuttgart’s latest robotically constructed pavilion, the ...

There's no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor your heart if your comfy shirt can do a better job. That's the idea behind "smart clothing" developed by a Rice University ...

At a lab inside Rice University’s chemistry building, doctoral candidate Oliver Dewey unspools a fiber so fine that trying to catch a glimpse of it can strain the eye. It’s thinner than a human hair, ...