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LEDs Woven Into Textiles

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NEW YORK, May 29, 2007 -- Weavers in the San Andreas region of the Sierra Madre, Mexico, are incorporating high-brightness LEDs into textiles using traditional backstrap looms and sewing techniques as part of a pilot program for The Sierra Portable Light Project, featured in "Design for the Other 90%, A Revolution in Design," an exhibition on view through Sept. 23 at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City.  Designer/manufacturer: Portable Light Team, KVA MATx (United States, 2006). Woven aluminum textile, recyclable PET, flexible photovoltaics, semiconductors, flexible wireways. Traditional...Read full article

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    Published: May 2007
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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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