DailyDirt: Almost Ready To Wear Textiles

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Science fiction has popularized a few clothing ideas that haven't quite become a reality. (For instance, fabrics made of a spider-silk-like fiber that are super tough but light.) Sometimes the laws of physics doesn't quite allow for magical fabrics that can make things invisible/impenetrable/etc. Real advanced fabric technologies are improving all the time, though, and making some pretty cool clothes -- even if they're not economically practical. Here are just a few examples. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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Filed Under: 3d printing, biotech, carbonx, clothing, fabric, fire-resistant, leather, materials, nomex, textile


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    Anonymous Coward, 8 Jul 2014 @ 10:48am

    That yarn and silicone thing does NOT look wearable or able to resist a knife strike.

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