Softmatter Announces New Technology Platforms to Transform the Future of Wearable Technology Through Textile Integration at CES - Business Wire

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Softmatter, the sketch-to-shelf exertion institution that operates astatine the intersect of brushed goods and wearables, contiguous announced its configurable stack of caller technologies to accelerate the adoption and proficiency of wearables. The technologies heighten the wearability and idiosyncratic acquisition of devices by changing their creation done the integration of textile technology.

Catering to the needs wrong the Consumer Technology and Consumer Health industries, Softmatter’s portfolio of solutions look to facilitate entree and standard by connecting creators to consumers. Some of the exertion solutions displayed astatine CES 2023 include:

• Re-engineered artificial world (AR) & virtual world (VR) headsets
• Premium Wristable Materials
• Softmatter’s Sensor Integrated Products

“We are connected a travel to alteration affirmative change, driving advancement done astute engineering solutions and wearable exertion to elevate and empower the quality experience,” said Softmatter CEO Ulysses Wong.

Re-engineered Artificial Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets

The archetypal procreation of AR/VR headsets was developed successful rigid signifier factors and carried a bulky design. Softmatter saw the request for improvements impacting comfort, duration of wear, softer stretchable materials, and a plan that allows for modularized, lightweight, distributed computing and de-coupling powerfulness and processing from the optics.

• Enabling high-speed information transportation to physique a user-friendly headset: By processing a textile cablegram successful a brushed signifier origin to alteration design, Softmatter tin accurately transportation high-speed information without losing accuracy, adjacent erstwhile stretched. Developed implicit 16 discrete signifier factors with textile, TPU, conductive ink, etc.
• Integrated Technologies – Haptics & Sensors: Electrocardiogram (ECG), oregon Electromyography (EMG) tin beryllium customized considering the optimal positioning of the electrodes for antithetic idiosyncratic categories, portion an integrated haptic strategy enables tactile feedback and notification mechanisms successful a virtual world oregon gaming situation successful effect to assorted stimuli successful the VR.
• Power Reserves - Flexible Battery Integration: Flex artillery cells are utilized with the volition of advancement successful on-body computing and removing roadblocks with bulky and heavy-powering devices. Softmatter’s solution is simply a lightweight, flexible, washable, semi-solid electrolyte construction, that acts arsenic a complementary powerfulness reserve to the on-device battery, allowing for longer and much seamless usage of the device.

Premium Wristable Materials

Softmatter has extended acquisition with materials and constructions to execute parameters crossed aesthetics, comfort, composition, elasticity, and fit. This expertise with wearables, allows Softmatter to integrate astute features successful the signifier of sensors and haptics, flex artillery powerfulness reserve, illumination/notification, adust electrodes, etc., allowing for amended functionality and miniaturization.

• Ergonomics and Usability – Engineered Knit and Narrow Width Elastics: Engineered wrist straps with precocious textiles, specified arsenic level knit and woven elastics, let for the instauration of wholly caller comfy next-to-skin structures without hindering functionality and semipermanent use. The level knits alteration lightweight, breathable analyzable structures with circumstantial inhomogeneous textures and analyzable geometries. Other improvements see the exclusions of buckles and clasps, resulting successful a lighter, breathable zero-waste wrist strap that offers a much precise second-skin feel.

Sensor Integrated Products

Softmatter is capturing wellness and motion-related accusation done the integration of textile-based and physics sensors into apparel – an untethered and flexible attack to information gathering for question and biopotential investigation for fittingness and posture. Softmatter’s Sensor Integrated Products tin measurement metrics ranging from Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electromyography (EMG), Movement, Temperature, and Pressure, which tin beryllium incorporated into a assortment of signifier factors.

• Electrocardiogram (ECG): An ECG sensor integrated into apparel measures bosom rate, respiration, and workout effort during high-intensity fittingness workouts.
• Electroencephalogram (EEG): EEG sensors (temporal, mastoid, etc.) tin beryllium incorporated into assorted head-worn signifier factors for applications specified arsenic sleep, neuroscience, accent management, and user tech. Softmatter’s ecosystem of partners tin customize EEG sensors to enactment next-to-skin oregon done hair.
• Electromyography (EMG): The EMG sensors are incorporated into an apparel signifier origin successful a non-obtrusive mode to way musculus enactment and equilibrium from afar successful real-time. These EMG (and strain) sensors tin beryllium utilized arsenic a gesture-tracking mechanism.

More accusation connected Softmatter and its technologies tin beryllium recovered here.

About Softmatter

Softmatter, portion of MAS Holdings, is simply a textile exertion institution that seeks to intertwine elements, that embody quality acquisition and technology. Driven by this vision, the institution works towards crafting implicit next-to-skin solutions that alteration the mode we live. As a astute brushed goods expert, we purpose to alteration each textile you interact with and everything you wear, into a seamless root of information and integrated technology. Softmatter’s proprietary merchandise improvement process, broad patent portfolio and imaginativeness successful creating precision textile integrations astatine standard person the imaginable to revolutionize the aboriginal of wearables.

About MAS Holdings

MAS Holdings, the largest apparel and apparel tech institution successful South Asia, is among the astir recognized design-to-delivery solution providers successful apparel and textile manufacturing. Home to a assemblage of implicit 118,000 people, today, MAS spans crossed manufacturing plants successful 17 countries, with established plan locations placed successful cardinal benignant centers crossed the world. Catering to the demands of a dynamic and ever-changing industry, the MAS portfolio has expanded exponentially; into wearable technology, FemTech, start-ups, logistics, and cloth parks worldwide.