The document discusses smart fabrics, which are fabrics embedded with digital technologies or nanomaterials to enhance their functionality. It provides examples of smart fabrics using optical fibers, nano-particles, chromic materials, and shape memory materials. Key applications discussed include uses in sports, military, healthcare, and fashion. Innovation leaders are profiled who are developing smart yoga pants, jackets, dresses, and baby socks. The presentation concludes by discussing the future potential of smart fabrics to be more adaptive, connected to IoT, and developed with sustainability and safety in mind.

1. Digital News Site
Translating technology is a fashion voice

2. SMART FABRICS:
Connected Today, Nano Tomorrow
Keynote by Muchaneta Kapfunde of FashNerd.com

3. Defining Smart
Fabrics?

4. Nano Fabrics
Nanofabrics are created using nanotechnology to give
materials new properties.

5. Connected Fabrics
Connected fabrics have embedded digital technology
and electronics

6. Why Get Excited About
Smart Fabrics
• It is improving the performance and functionality of textiles
• It will offer enhancement of human capabilities
• It has the ability to do many things that traditional fabrics
cannot, including communicate, transform, conduct energy and
even grow
• The smart fabrics space is opening up a massive creative
space for fashion designers
• We will be able to access advanced functions such as
monitoring one’s emotional state, stress level, and ergonomic
posture

7. Understanding Smart
Fabrics

8. Optical Fibres
Optical Fibres transmit data signals, transmit light for optical sensing, detect deformations in fabrics
due to stress and strain and perform chemical sensing. At last year's Met Gala Claire Danes wore a
luminous Fiber Optic dress designed and engineered by Zac Posen, using fiber optic fabric

9. Coating with Nano-Particles
Nanotechnology can add permanent effects and provides high durability
fabrics.It also improves the performance and functionality of textiles.

10. Chromic Materials
They are materials that radiate, lose or change colour because of an
induction caused by the external stimuli. Simply put chromic materials can

11. Shape Memory Material
can deform from the current shape to a previously set shape shape
memory polymers that ‘remember’ a shape they were molded into

12. Who Is Investing in
Smart Fabrics?

13. Sports
Smart fabrics are playing a key role in improving the
performance of athletes.

14. Military
Military is funding high-tech textiles that could that could
make soldiers’ uniforms part of a network of sensors.

15. Healthcare
Fabrics that transmit biomedical data are smart textiles that are able
to monitor and transmit wearers’ biomedical information via wireless.

16. Fashion
The potential of smart fabrics is bringing fashion design face-
to-face with technology, and the possibilities are unlimited.

17. Who is leading? SPORTS
• Hexoskin
• Polar
• Lumo
• AIO
• OMSignal
• Under Armour
• Nike
• Adidas

18. Innovators Redefining
the Textile Industry

19. Lauren Bowker
Fusing Science with Creativity

20. Pauline van Dongen
Solar Panel Shirt of Convenience

21. Aniela Hoitink
Bio Materials- Mycelium

22. Amy Winters
Reactive Garments

23. Marina Toeters
Sustainable Solutions

24. Maddy Maxey
Intelligent Textiles

25. The Headliners
Introducing Smart Products That Got Us Excited

26. The Digital Jacket
Objective: To allow wearer to use smartphone to connect
with smart NFC and QR tags hidden in the left sleeve,
giving you exclusive access

27. Fusing Health Tech & Clothing
Objective: a range of clothes designed to stimulate and
enhance awareness of sensors for those with autism.

28. Muscle Activating Smartsuit
Objective: Has electrodes integrated into the fabric that
allow you control level of stimulation via mobile

29. The Aura Power Suit
Objective: Packed with motors, sensors and AI to
provide support and act as a second skin to the wearer

30. Smart Yoga Pants
Objective: They are Yoga pants from Wearable Experiments called Nadi
Smart Fitness Pants that vibrate when it senses your form is incorrect.

31. Google's Interactive Yarn
Objective: The Google Commuter Jacket is a connected garment that
can send instructions to your smart phone by double tapping you wrist .

32. The Data Dress
Objective: Collect information through snapshot AI such as fitness
activities, places visits etc to the create a dress unique to you.

33. Owlet, The Smart Baby Sock
Objective: To monitor a baby's heart rate to make sure
they are breathing and sleep has been uninterrupted.

34. Smart Fabrics, A
Sustainable Solution?

35. Sustainability of Smart Fabrics
Is Not There Yet, But...
• We have been introduced to Smart Fabric That Creates
Renewable Energy
• A biodegradable device now exists that makes electronics more
sustainable
• There is Biosteel, a nature based sustainable material grown in a
lab using renewable resources
• We can use Smart cotton that saves 67% of wage with zero waste

36. The Future of Smart Fabrics
What Does That Look Like?

37. ADAPTATIVE
SURVIVAL CLOTHING

38. FUNDING

39. SAFETY

40. IoT

41. Q & A
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