Touch-Sensitive Textiles

Interactive fabric interfaces, ushering in a new age of gestures.

ELEVATING TEXTILE INTERACTIONS

Tactile Sensations

A multifaceted, fabric composition merged with industry-leading touch electronics for an elevated tactile experience.

Platform Features

Force Gradient

Variable actuation force and 3D touch capabilities.

Optionality

Resistive and capacitive touch technology available.

Gesture enabled

Relative motion translation enabled for tracking and gesture control.

Machine Washable

Encapsulated Electronics to allow washability.

Specifications

Leveraging capacitive and resistive touch technologies to creative textile-based interactive surfaces.

Configuration

Touch and tactile sensitive material that can provide capacitive or resistive touch properties. Minimum single actuation area 1×1 inch

Patch

Silicone and fabric patch integration techniques

Form Factor

Fabric like qualities make the device soft to the touch and fully drable.

Touch Sensitive Textiles

A touch-sensitive smart textile solution that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday electronics, allowing them to do more. Limited only by your imagination, this multi-functional technology can replace the need for traditional plastic interfaces and usher in a new era of connected and interactive soft goods.

Touch textiles change the way that you interact with technology by creating interfaces, that through great hand feel and aesthetics, actually enhance a user’s experience. This technology is applicable across industries, with use cases ranging from fabric-based computer peripherals to gesture-enabled smart clothing.

OUR TEXTILE TEXTILE

Applications

As a result of the endless possibilities afforded through touch textiles, we have created interactive products across multiple industries.

Consumer technology

Creating textile-based computer peripherals and the replacement of buttons on consumer electronics for a softer hand feel and altered user experience.

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Sports and Performance

Developing connected clothing collections that can interface with your smartphone via on-garment gestures.

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Healthcare

Gesture enabled hospital apparel and soft goods for quick notifications for healthcare providers, especially in crises.

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Platform Capabilities

Leveraging capacitive and resistive touch technologies to creative
textile-based interactive surfaces.

Smart speakers with Touch Textiles

TECHNOLOGY WOVEN IN

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Engineered Knit

Leveraging Flat, Circular, and Warp knitting techniques to create complex structures, designs, and modulus.

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Narrow Width Fabrics

Elasticated fabrics and elastomeric yarns engineered to achieve stretch and durability, as well as support complex design and construction.

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Injection Molding

A revolutionary form and padding technology for impact protection and the encasing of electronics.

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Visibility

Next-to-skin LED-based lighting that provides on-demand illumination ensuring visibility and safety, now with RGB capabilities.

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Thermal Regulation

Intelligent fabric-based thermal regulation, that can support a variety of functions ranging from microclimate regulation to pain management.

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Sensing

Seamlessly integrated biopotential and biomechanical sensors that allow for the collection of metrics ranging from heart rate to motion.

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Feedback

Haptics, TENS, and EMS integrated into soft goods for tactile feedback, notification, and chronic pain management.

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Touch Textiles

Pressure-sensitive textile constructions used to create interactive interfaces, replacing the need for traditional plastic components.

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Data Transfer

Transfer of data and power across fabric substrates with limited flow and interference and low resistance, supporting over 4gbps and 40V at 5A.

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Flexible Battery

Adaptable battery for a multitude of wearable uses. Flexible, washable, semi-solid electrolyte construction that serves as the industry’s solution to the growing design needs.

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Textile Circuitry

A collection of conductive pathways and inlays, interconnects and encapsulation to present technology in a seamless and invisible manner

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Bio-mimicking material

Thermo-responsive polymers and yarns, pine-cone biomimetic yarn for moisture management for improved comfort over extended wear times.

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PU foam-based Injection Molding

Replacing hard plastic components for flexibility, durability, and seamless integration of sensors

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Acoustic dampening fabrics

Certified Acoustic fabrics specifically designed for uninterrupted sound passthrough from materials to product.

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Memory Foam with PU Leather

Internal and external fabric/leather lamination on foam provides superior comfort and flexibility. Memory foam built for high impact/low frequency.

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Silicone Printing and Embellishments

Patented Silicone Application Technology to enable targeted modification of fabric modulus using engineered functional prints for grip and comfort

How to Engage

At Softmatter, our dynamic team has industry-leading expertise in smart textiles, from design to manufacture. We help you strategically enhance your offering so that it has a profound, global impact.

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