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Bristol Wearable Computing Project
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UK. Joint project of the Computer Science Department of the University of Bristol and the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, concentrating on the development of programs and hardware which use context sensing to enable media and information to be delivered to the wearer of purpose designed jackets and devices appropriate to their current position and activity.
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TechniTex Faraday Partnership
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UK. Government funded initiative of the Heriot-Watt University, the University of Leeds, UMIST and the British Textile Technology Group, involved in research, design and development of new technologies and applications for technical textiles.
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PROTECT. The Program for Technical Textiles
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Pan-European cooperative venture of textile universities, providing an in-depth study, and educational and training programs and methods for industrial and technical textiles throughout the European Union.
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MIT Bio Robotics Research Laboratory
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USA. Laboratory for fundamental and applied research into wearable sensoring and monitoring systems for healthcare applications. Development of conductive textile fiber based goniometers for the measurement of body movements.
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Eminent
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European Union funded project created to form a bridge between small and medium sized enterprises in the field of micro and nano technologies and the European Commission, and is active in the automotive, medical, energy and life sciences, information technologies and telecommunication, and industrial process control industries. Current development project for intelligent textiles.
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