Thousands of years ago, the art of making lotus silk was known, but then it was lost. However, a few small-scale industries in Myanmar, Cambodia, and, recently, Vietnam are reviving this age-old tradition. You may be asking yourself why lotus silk is so expensive, yet people could make it before the age of technology. Of ...
Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That’s the idea behind a new “acoustic fabric” developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design. The team has designed a fabric that works like a microphone, converting sound first into mechanical vibrations, and then into electrical signals, similar to how your ...
Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That’s the idea behind a new “acoustic fabric” developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design. The team has designed a fabric that works like a microphone, converting sound first into mechanical vibrations, and then into electrical signals, similar to how our ...
While fabrics marketed as organic bamboo clothing are gaining popularity worldwide, it turns out that no organic bamboo textiles have actually been certified. Behind the apparent fraud is the Chinese industry giant Tenbro. The amount of “organic” bamboo fabric Tenbro exports annually is 20 times greater than the amount of American-produced organic cotton exported annually. ...
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