Lilypad - Electronic Textiles

This is an interesting book in that it covers the latest developments in this field that are becoming a reality due to the advancements in materials (conductive fibers/polymers) and microelectronics (camera arrays, wireless, GPS, etc.). %u2026So if you want to get into this exciting new area or work with nanofibers or conductive polymers, you will find this book to be very interesting, especially for getting ideas and learning about who is doing what in this new area of research.
-IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, May/June, 2006

Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for personal music systems; specialist clothing will be able to monitor the vital life signs of new-born babies, record the performance of an athlete's muscles, and call a rescue team to victims of accidents in adverse weather conditions. In this book, a team of international authors discusses the technical materials and processes that will facilitate all of these possibilities.