Outlook 2014: "Science Fiction" Fabric Into Life

　　 Wearable device 3D printing robot

As long as we still have a lot of illusions about technology, we can make continuous efforts to make more and more high-tech come into the textile industry and daily life.

We see things that can only be seen in science fiction dreams in the past, but now they are used in people's daily lives. Now, textile production will use robots, making 3D and printing technology to make fabrics and garments, and turning clothes into computers. It seems impossible or unrealistic to the textile industry, but they may be gradually becoming reality in 2014.

　 wearable devices

The old concept is that people wear a built-in computer garment, and the concept is that clothes themselves become computers.

Wearable products surging, not only led to the upgrading of the field of science and technology, but also erected a banner in the textile and garment industry. Luxury brands and technology giants joined hands to jointly build the 007 style science fiction car.

Recently, at the Mobilebeat summit in San Francisco, Samsung's chief strategy officer, Young Sogn, said: "ultimately, you will not feel that you have used wearable devices. It may be the fabric, glasses or watches in your clothes."

In 2013, Google and Nike launched the intelligent "fairy shoes", which displayed their functions in every way. Nike SE equipped with Bluetooth 4, supported tracking activities and real-time viewing data; Google shoes can speak, serve as personal trainers, and also transmit motion data to mobile devices. In addition to these gorgeous ornaments, technology factors also infiltrate underwear. In December 2013, Microsoft released smart bra that could regulate mood to remind the wearer not to overeat. The United Kingdom introduced a "Kewi" bra that uses magnetic levitation technology to counteract the gravity of the chest.

Designer Francesca Rosella and Ruian roots are commissioned by the Chicago Museum of science and industry in the us to design an evening dress with 24 thousand light-emitting diodes, the Galactic evening dress. The evening dress can be charged for 30 minutes. Designers say that the new technology of light emitting diode applications will not make the skirt temperature too high. Light emitting diodes have low energy consumption, and small rechargeable batteries in petticoat are enough to light them up. In fact, as early as 2006, the "hug shirt" designed by the company was selected as one of the best inventions of the year by the US weekly. The "hug shirt" is used to simulate the touch, skin temperature and heartbeat frequency of the participants, so that two distant participants can feel the "hug" of each other.

It should be said that wearable products have already covered the trend of all parts of the body, all kinds of bracelets, watches, glasses, hanging on the waist, worn around the neck, and worn on the feet. "Wearable" is becoming very popular at home and abroad, and the wearable market is booming. According to the relevant market research institutes, the adoption rate of wearable devices will increase by 250% in 2014. By 2018, the global shipments of wearable smart devices will reach 130 million units, 10 times that of 2013, while the 2016 market will be as high as 6 billion dollars.

Industry experts said in an interview with reporters, wristbands, watches and glasses are just the beginning, and the next generation of wearable computing equipment will become part of our fabric. In London, CuteCircuit has developed a kind of mobile phone clothing. There is an antenna at its juncture. There is a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module), a customer identification module, also known as smart card, user identity card, and GSM digital mobile phone, which must be installed on this card.

At present, these products are conceptual rather than commercial products. They seem a bit rough compared with the upcoming products. In fact, as early as 2011, a team of scientists from Italy, France and the United States began to explore the possibility of making transistors and circuits with wires and cotton covered with nanoparticles and polymers. The old concept is that people wear a built-in computer garment, and the concept is that clothes themselves become computers.

An expert in the industry said in an interview with reporters: "people neglect the clothes that they wear everyday. In fact, we can put a lot of functions into these clothes." She further predicted that smart clothing that could change colors, regulate temperature and recharge electronic devices would appear, and for lazy people, another good news is that these clothes need not be cleaned.

　　 3D printing

3D printing technology represents a new trend in the development of manufacturing industry. It will promote the third industrial revolution.

The US media has predicted that the large-scale application of 3D printing technology will make mass designers lose their jobs. The reason is that even the ordinary people who know nothing about the process, as long as you have a 3D printer with high quality, it is easy to do anything you want to do. So it can be predicted that in the near future, the clothes purchased by consumers may be a design chart, and they can have their own private customization when they take 3D printing. Moreover, many of the original designs that can not be produced can now be realized through the dream of 3D printer, and the process is super simple, that is, using 3D printers to print out individual parts, and then assemble them to get the desired design. The world's first 3D ritual skirt was born.

In March 2013, the world's sexiest and most expensive stripper Dita Von Teese set the world's first 3D print dress on her enchanting body. The ritual skirt is made of gorgeous black carved grid fabric and perfectly fits the graceful curve of Dita. The ritual skirt has two dimensional postmodern protrusions which can not be realized by traditional clothes. The whole dress includes bracelet with SWAROVSKI crystal, which is both charming and exotic. It looks like the stereoscopic hollowed armor of the avenger Alliance. According to Micheal Schmidt, the designer of the "world first" 3D dress designer, the skeleton of the skirt was first printed in the printing company using a 3D printer with powdered nylon, and then carefully coated with smooth black paint. Finally, it was embedded with a total of 12000 SWAROVSKI crystals.

In 2013, Iris van Herpen also worked with architects Neri Oxman and Julia Koerner to show two 3D garments at the Paris high tech press conference. These two pieces of clothing use multiple materials, print hard and soft parts of clothing through 3D, and then assemble them in order to achieve the flexibility of the body.

3D printing has been a major trend in the US industry, and it is expected to revive the manufacturing industry. Specifically to the textile industry, the concept of 3D printing fabric has opened a new frontier for textile production. 3D printing allows designers to get rid of the shackles of stitches and wires compared with the production of fabrics in one metre and then cutting off excess materials. 3D printing technology has created a new way to make things accurately use the required materials. This environmental approach is quietly transforming the fashion industry.

3D printing technology can be radically changed. Textile industry 。 At the end of 2013, the invention of an Israeli couple, the world's first 3D print disposable underwear, may enter the market as early as possible at the beginning of this year. The founder of Tamicare, Israeli inventor Tamar Giloh, has developed an automatic 3D printing system that can produce elastic, biodegradable fabrics called "Cosyflex". Tamicare claims that the unique incremental manufacturing method using Cosyflex can create underwear that feels like fabric.

Cosyflex is an innovative process that does not cut and does not waste raw materials to print 3D fabrics. It can instantly produce finished products. Using natural rubber latex polymers and cotton fibers, Tamicare technology can produce a disposable underwear in 3 seconds and produce about 10 million in one year. Various types of liquid polymers, such as natural latex, silicon, polyurethane, polytetrafluoroethylene, and various textile fibers, such as cotton, viscose fiber and polyamide, can be used to print various types of clothing, bandages and sportswear as materials. Cosyflex printing can use any combination of unlimited fibers to print patterns, embossing or piercing on the same base plane.

But 3D printing. Fabric clothing Can everyone buy a 3D printer and print their own clothes?

Obviously, this is at least unrealistic at the moment. Industry experts said in an interview with reporters, the current domestic fabric industry is more 3D digital printing. Although the popularity of digital printing is only a few years' time, it maximizes the designers' desire for patterns, and can input pictures or hand drawings into the computer for later processing, and then print the fabric to give people the visual effect of "fake the truth". At present, digital printing can not solve the problem of printing on heavy fabrics, including woolen fabrics or leather. Therefore, two dimensional digital printing begins to evolve, so that 3D digital printing will give the fabric a stereoscopic vision effect. For example, the magic of DionLee, 3D digital, makes fabrics more unfathomable, changing with the profile and changing with the natural wobble of the wearer. The extension of vision actually comes along the wearer's body line, which is actually shaping them.

3D printing, the new favorite of the industrial design, is actually applied to fashion design. Although it hasn't been widely popularized yet, designers are challenging high technology, creating 3D models by modeling, and then building the needed models through 3D printers. Although the works that make people staggering, though they still can not be as practical as clothing, they are thrown to the outside world.