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Spray-On 'Fabrican' Clothing Should Be a Hit With Hospitals, Bondage Enthusiasts

We'd make a joke about hipsters and "painted-on" jeans if every other blogger hadn't done it first. So what can we say about this spray-on fabric developed by Imperial College London and Fabrican? Lycra fetishists and zentai enthusiasts will probably get a kick out of it -- depending, of course, on whether or not you can kick in it. (Badum?) [Ed. note: No.] According to Wired, the material is ...

Design Concepts: Advances in Textiles, From Bacteria Dresses to Acoustic Threads

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. In 1855, ...