Angielski
Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology, Second Edition focuses on the design process, material selection, garment construction, and new production techniques for smart clothing. Building on the success of the previous edition, this book brings wearable technologies ever closer to market with its design-led approach to the integration of technologies into textiles. This design-led, cross-disciplinary approach to the development of hybrid processes ensures that the results are both attractive and usable to wider audiences. It also helps designers to adapt their product development processes in response to novel textile and garment manufacturing technologies. Case studies showing best practice, and warning of pitfalls help the reader to develop applications and products in the real world. The differences between testing and design for smart and traditional clothes are also discussed. Features new chapters on specialist applications for military, fire, police, and ambulance services, visualization of data from smart clothing, and brand collaboration Provides an update of current applications, and investigates possible future developments in the integration of technology into clothing Raises important issues around the end-life and disposal of smart clothing and wearable technologies
