IFA 2005 Overview: "Photonic textiles turn fabric into intelligent displays
Another demonstration shows photonic textiles fabrics that contain lighting systems and can therefore serve as displays. By integrating flexible arrays of multicolored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) into fabrics and doing so without compromising the softness of the cloth Philips Research is bringing these inert objects to life. Photonic textiles open up a wide range of applications in the fields of ambient lighting, communication, and personal health care.
To meet the challenge of creating light-emitting cloth objects that retain their softness, Philips Research and textile institute TITV Greiz have developed an interconnecting substrate made entirely of cloth. On these substrates, they have placed passive matrixes of 10 x 10 red, green and blue LED packages. The pixelated luminaries have been embedded in such everyday objects as pillows, backpacks, and floor mats, and prototype samples will be shown at the IFA.
Applied in soft fabric, the light from the small pixels diffuses, resulting in more or less continuous light-emitting soft surface.
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