Markets & Applications
Human-like touch sensitivity with ‘first touch’ capability.
Multi-functional pressure & proximity sensing.
Affordable, light-weight, textile skins sewn to fit large areas.
Q-Sleeve™ retrofittable robot arm sleeve.
Quantum3DTouch™-Glove.
Enable exciting advancements in Ai Gaming Tech.
Embed intelligence into a wide range of products & devices enabling new functionalities & applications.
Create wearables & footwear of the future with washable textile switches, pressure and proximity sensors without sacrificing aesthetic appeal eg. squeeze a glove harder to change a character’s movement from a walk to a sprint or press your chest to heal an injury sustained in the virtual world or touch your head to make your character crouch down.
Virtual & augmented reality in gaming could take on a new dimension & psychological realism by transferring ‘touch’ to the virtual world & metaverse to enhance the authenticity & depth of the experience. Hardware has the potential to become more intuitive, accessible & inclusive.
Personalisation & sensitivities adaptable. 2D and 3D joysticks.
Easy Scrolling.
Affordable, safe pressure sensors & switches.
Low power consumption.
Create more sustainable, enviro-friendly & recyclable products.
Insoles for healthcare monitoring eg. diabetes & disease monitoring & fall prediction.
Ulcer monitoring bed sheets & wheelchair seats.
Bandage pressure monitoring.
Disability assistance wearables.
Fashionable, interactive sports textiles for performance monitoring, improvement or injury detection.
Data gathering eg. cyclist vests monitoring aerodynamics or shorts monitoring pressures applied to saddles.
Fencing & karate performance tracking.
Gloves monitoring golfers club grip.
Helmet fitting or injury detection eg. rugby, boxing, American football.
Football socks enabling the location of an injury to be identified & how hard the impact was.
Add human-like sensing to prosthetics to create the equivalent of human skin response or inside amputee sockets to enable the perfect fit.
Touch screens, smart phones, notebooks & tablets.
Transform products by utilising any active surfaces to create the best intuitive user experience possible.
Design thinner, lighter & flexible products; fit more functionality into smaller spaces at lower costs.
Create multi-functional durable interfaces.
Light-weighting solutions.
Create unique cockpit interfacing. Creative freedom.
Intelligent seating.
Steering wheel ‘hands-off’ detection.
External skins for monitoring aerodynamics.
The connected car – deliver the best driver experience of the future.
'The sky’s the limit! ... with aeronautical design'.
Low-weighting.
Pressure sensitive skins on surfaces.
Fatigue monitoring.
Perfect fit for IOT; 2D & 3D forms.
Wearables & active surfaces made more intelligent.
Personalisation of products or monitoring.
Tags that add intelligence to everyday objects.
Valuable data generated from pressure / force / touch / proximity inputs.
Combine sensing, control and optimization to create a 'Digital Nervous System'.
Affordable, more sustainable & recyclable disposable products.
Enabling advancements in military wearables.
Data-gathering, light-weight & durable wearables.
Helmet or gas mask fitting.
Injury and ‘man-down’ detection & alarms eg. identify location & seriousness of injury.
Operating & controlling equipment through wearables eg arm bands/gloves.
Training gloves to provide real-time feedback for equipment training.
Improve card security by detecting presence eg. thumb/finger activation of an ultra-thin printed embedded switch protects the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips in credit & debit cards from unwarranted scanning by identity thieves wirelessly stealing information.
Enabling affordable & more sustainable Large Area Electronics.
Smart equipment & appliances. Product differentiation.
Carpet monitoring for elderly fall prediction & man-down alarms.
Intelligent interactive surfaces eg. whiteboards & gaming walls.
Creating best intuitive user experiences eg. interactive furniture & textiles.
Structural fatigue & earthquake monitoring & embedded intelligence.
A designer’s dream