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[ BRIEFS ]
breakthroughs
Innovations in advanced textiles
KnittedKeyboard II
breaks new musical ground
M
ABOVE: The KnittedKeyboard II
can sense physical contact and
gestures in the air.
RIGHT: The KnittedKeyboard II
can be thrown over the shoulder
like a scarf or cabled up to a
laptop running music production
software and used as an expressive
MIDI keyboard. Photos: Irmandy
Wicaksono/MIT Media Lab.
usical keyboards with digital interfaces (MIDI)
come in many sizes, but all rest on a rigid,
heavy structure. Irmandy Wicaksono from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
found a user-friendly alternative in textiles and developed
an interactive textile-based musical interface, laid out
in the familiar 88 keys of a piano. KnittedKeyboard II
combines discrete controls from conventional keystrokes
and expressive continuous controls from the noncontact
theremin-like proximity sensors that respond to hands
waving and hovering in the air, as well as unique physical
interactions enabled by the integrated fabric sensors, such
as squeezing, pulling, stretching and twisting. In addition
to the keyboard providing new interactions and tactile
experiences for musical expressions, it can be easily folded,
rolled up and packed in luggage, or worn as a scarf.
Mosquito-resistant clothing prevents bites in trials
N
orth Carolina State University (NC State) researchers have created
insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing using textile materials they
Mosquitoes landed on bite-resistant fabric
during an in vivo bioassay in which they
failed to probe through the fabric due to its
small pore size. The proboscis bends when
mosquitoes try to push through the fabric.
Photo: Matt Bertone/NC State.
confirmed to be bite-proof in experiments with live mosquitoes. They developed
the materials using a computational model of their own design that describes
the biting behavior of a mosquito species known to carry viruses that cause
human diseases like Zika, Dengue fever and yellow fever. The researchers
reported in the journal Insects that they were able to prevent 100 percent of bites
when a volunteer wore the clothing-a base layer undergarment and a combat
shirt initially designed for the military-in a cage with 200 live, disease-free
mosquitoes. " We found we can prevent the mosquito from pushing through the
fabric, while others were thick enough to prevent it from reaching the skin, " said
study co-author Andre West, associate professor of fashion and textile design at
NC State and director of the Zeis Textiles Extension for Economic Development.
Vector Textiles, an NC State startup company, has licensed the rights to make
clothing for commercial sale in the U.S.
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