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Intelligent Textiles: Reducing the Burden

By Dr Stan Swallow and Asha Peta Thompson
3 Mar 2010

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Stan Swallow and Asha Thompson are directors of Intelligent Textiles Ltd, a small UK-based technology company that specialises in electrically active woven fabrics, or ‘e-textiles’, and which for over five years has been researching and developing e-textiles for defence applications, predominantly as a replacement for conventional cables in soldier systems, where they offer a radical solution to some of the ‘burden’ problems facing today’s dismounted soldier and marine. In this article they describe the development of electrically conductive textiles and the significant advantages that they promise.