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| Smart glove translates sign language
The glove is worn on the user’s right hand and is paired via Bluetooth to a subscription-based app for smartphone.
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How to Crochet a Pumpkin
Use simple crochet stitches to make an adorable pumpkin! You'll love this soft and squishy gourd, and with its sweet smiling face. It's a fast project.
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| Do You Wash Your New Clothes Before You Wear Them?
If you don't ... you might want to start.
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Wearable keyboard is MIDI capable
The prototype KnittedKeyboard II utilizes digital knitting technology, utilizing intarsia, interlock patterning and a collection of functional (electrically-conductive and thermoplastic) and non-functional (polyester) fibers.
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| Yarn biodegrades for sustainable athletic garments
The collection includes four new styles, which have been made with a functional fabric called Fitter, which uses Fulgar’s biodegradable Amni Soul Eco 6,6 polyamide yarn. According to Fulgar, Amni Soul Eco biodegrades in about five years in anaerobic landfills.
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How to Stretch the Waistline of Your Pants for a Little Extra Room
You can work with a tailor to get custom-made pants or get your store-bought pants let out a little, but if you just need a little more room, you can try stretching them out at home for a little more breathing room.
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| adidas, Allbirds collaboration produces low-carbon running shoe
The companies say that the Futurecraft.Footprint was produced with 63 percent lower emissions when compared to a comparable shoe.
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DefeXtiles' Sustainable 3D Printed Fabric Has the Potential to Revolutionize Textiles
Thanks to intelligent engineering, these textiles are flexible, durable, and versatile.
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| How 2 retired scientists developed a recycled leather product that's being adopted by major retailer
Pennsylvania-based firm Sustainable Composites, founded in 2012, developed Enspire Leather, a recycled leather product that replicates the look, feel, smell, and performance of tanned hide at half the cost.
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6000 strands of yarn on the Asbury Park boardwalk weave a story
The Wooden Walls Mural Project is a collaborative initiative that brings art to Asbury Park to enrich the socio-cultural and socio-economic landscape in a thoughtful way
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| Washable, battery-free, wearable alternative developed at Purdue
This makes it possible to transform any conventional fabric items into battery-free wearables. These smart clothes are powered wirelessly through a flexible, silk-based coil sewn on the textile. Energy can be harvested from Wi-Fi or radio waves.
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US UNIVERSITY PURDUE'S FLEXILAB MAKING INTERNET OF THINGS PRACTICAL
The FlexiLab has already come out with innovations such as the ones which allow any paper notebook to be used as a tablet, change of the volume of music just by touching one’s clothes, and disposable smart bandages which monitor and heal the wound.
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