TY - BOOK ID - 67944179 TI - Wearable electronics and photonics AU - Tao, Xiaoming AU - Textile Institute (Manchester, England) PY - 2005 SN - 1855736055 0849325951 9786610361533 1280361530 1845690443 9781845690441 9781855736054 9781855736054 PB - Boca Raton Cambridge CRC Press Woodhead DB - UniCat KW - Photonics. KW - Smart materials. KW - Textile fabrics KW - Textile fibers KW - Wearable computers. KW - Technological innovations. KW - New optics KW - Optics KW - Mobile computing KW - Portable computers KW - Wearable technology KW - Adaptive materials KW - Intelligent materials KW - Sense-able materials KW - Materials KW - Cloth KW - Fabrics KW - Textile industry and fabrics KW - Textiles KW - Decorative arts KW - Dry-goods KW - Weaving KW - Fibers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67944179 AB - Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept, which 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 many other applications. 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, to record the performance of an athlete's muscles, to call a rescue team to victims of accidents in adverse weather conditions. A ER -