An £11 million funding in the UK will help develop clever robotic clothing which keeps people active and independent, addressing the needs of the country’s 6.7 million people with age or disability-related mobility issues.
Well, you now have a leather alternative that dyes itself! Researchers at the Imperial College London have created the sustainable, self-dyeing leather alternative by modifying the genes of a bacteria species that produces a strong, flexible and malleable material.
Researchers at the Imperial College London have used a cotton-based conductive thread to make sensors that can be used to monitor breathing, heart activity, and gases like ammonia, a component of the breath that can be used to track liver and kidney function.
