Make Clothes Out of a Can With Spray-On Fabric

Tight-fitting T-shirts and hipster jeans would get even snugger if you could just spray them on.

That idea just got a little less far-fetched. A liquid mixture developed by Imperial College London and a company called Fabrican lets you spray clothes directly onto your body, using aerosol technology.

After the spray dries, it creates a thin layer of fabric that can be peeled off, washed and reworn.

“When I first began this project I really wanted to make a futuristic, seamless, quick and comfortable material,” says Manel Torres, a Spanish fashion designer and academic visitor at Imperial College in a statement. Torres worked with Paul Luckham, a professor of particle technology at the Imperial College to create the material.

“In my quest to produce this kind of fabric, I ended up returning to the principles of the earliest textiles such as felt, which were also produced by taking fibers and finding a way of binding them together without having to weave or stitch them,” says Torres.

Clothes designed using the spray-on fabric will be shown at the Science in Style fashion show next week at Imperial College.

Spray-painting the body has been around for a while, and you can even get spray-on latex body paint (NSFW). And who can forget the amazing spray-on hair, a staple of Ronco infomercials in the 1980s? But these are illusions, tricks to deceive the eye. The spray-on fabric, in contrast, is lightweight and can be stored in your closet with other clothes.

The spray-on fabric consists of short fibers that are combined with polymers to bind them together and a solvent that delivers the fabric in liquid form. The solvent evaporates when the spray touches the surface.

The fabric is formed by cross-linking fibers, which cling to one another to create the garment, says Fabrican.

The spray-on fabric is pretty versatile. It can be created in many colors and and use different types of fibers ranging from natural to the synthetic, says the company.

The spray can be applied using a high-pressure spray gun or an aerosol can. The texture of the fabric changes according to the type of material — such as wool, linen or acrylic — and how the spray is layered on the body.

Fabrican says the technology is not just for fashion but can have some innovative use in medicine to layer bandages on the skin without disturbing the wound.

The technology is still in prototype stage, and some kinks still need to be worked out, such as the strong smell of solvent around the fabric. The researchers estimate that it will be at least a few years before it can be ready for commercial use.

Another challenge is to find a way to use the spray to create clothes that aren’t very snug. After all, with all the obesity in America, the sprayed-on look for clothes might not work for everyone.

Check out the video below showing how to create a spray-on scarf.

iOS 4.2 First Look: iPad Gets Multitasking, Printing

 Poor iPad customers. It feels like an eternity since the iPhone and iPod Touch gained multitasking with iOS 4, while owners of the tablet have been frozen in time with boring old iOS 3. 

Fortunately, Apple’s iOS 4.2 is due for launch in November, and we got an early look at the new OS on the iPad.
Based on our hands-on testing with an early beta release of iOS 4.2, there’s plenty for iPad users to look forward to. Multitasking is even better on the media-rich tablet than on its smaller siblings, grouping apps into folders makes the entire tablet experience feel less inundating, and finally, the iPad will get a feature many of us have been demanding: wireless printing.
We couldn’t test all the new features due to the unavailability of some necessary hardware, but here’s a quick first look of what you’ll get with iOS 4.2 in a few months.

New HTC Sense Shows Android Skins Are Still Alive

Android skins may be slow and tacky, but phone makers continue to use them. Now HTC has doubled down on the concept with a new version of its Sense user interface.

Along with the launch of two new phones Wednesday, HTC upgraded Sense, an Android add-on that provides home screen widgets to aggregate social networking feeds, display a user’s calendar, and provide access to apps such as the camera.

The revamped Sense UI will have a much faster boot time, DLNA support to allow streaming media to other devices, faster maps and a new website for device management, says HTC.

The new version of Sense will be seen on the Desire and Desire Z smartphones that has company just launched.

How to Turn the iPod Nano Into a Wristwatch

Admit it: When you saw the puny touchscreen iPod Nano you thought, “That could make a cool watch.” Accessory makers thought so, too, and a handful of them are already selling fancy straps to turn your iPod Nano into a watch. The truth is you don’t really need to waste money on any of them, because you can do it yourself in two steps.

Really all you need is any fabric strap. The iPod Nano has a built-in clip on the back so you can just clip it on to the center of any thin strap. It’s a sturdy clip, too, so unless you go skydiving or regularly get in bar fights, it shouldn’t wiggle around much.

Check out our photos below to see how I converted my military watch (with a NATO watch band, which you can get for about $10) into an “iWatch” in two easy steps.

 

 

First Look: A Screenshot Tour of the New Twitter

Twitter launched a full redesign to its website Tuesday, showing off changes that lead Twitter.com away from its humble stream-of-updates past and toward a more interactive, app-like future.

The new Twitter went live to a select few users Tuesday afternoon and began rolling out to everyone else Wednesday. If you don't see it yet, you will soon.

The website now has a new two-panel view. Your familiar stream of tweets runs down the left side. On the right side is a dashboard of sorts, where you can see recent activity from your followers and the people you follow, trending topics, and the list of people you might want to follow.

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Hub News : Aston Martin’s Cygnet Microcar Headed to America

Looks like the Cygnet, which is nothing more than a reworked Toyota iQ wearing an Aston Martin badge, is headed to the United States.

Aston Martin’s been hinting for a while now that it would build the crazy mashup. It always made sense for the European market, where an upscale urban commuter that beats big-city congestion charges might sell well.

But Automotive News, citing absolutely no one, says Aston Martin plans to bring the car to the States. When that’ll happen remains to be seen.

We’re waiting to hear back from Aston Martin.

Automotive News, among others, questions why Aston might offer the Cygnet here. We’d wager Aston wants to improve the average fuel economy of its fleet to meet the CAFE rules. The iQ reportedly gets Toyota Prius–like fuel economy, which would go a long way toward offsetting the numbers of a car like the Rapide or the DB9 Volante.

To build the Cygnet concept, Aston swaddled a Toyota iQ in loads of leather and added a grille with a grin like the Cheshire Cat. Under the skin, though, it’s got the same 1-liter, three-cylinder engine as the 56-mpg Toyota iQ.

That doesn’t mean it won’t have an Aston-like price tag, though. AE says it’ll run $35,000.

Hub Techno : Apple Redefines Remote Control — Now, It’s Your Cellphone

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There’s a lot to say about the new Apple TV that Steve Jobs presented today. But I’m not going to talk about the tiny little box. Instead, I’m going to talk about that remote.

Actually, there are two remotes. The first is the little, minimalist, metal slab that will ship with the Apple TV.

The first iteration of Apple TV had the same little white infrared remote the company used to ship with laptops. It was great for clicking through a slideshow presentation. It wasn’t very good to keep around your living room, unless you stuck it in a bowl with your keys. It wasn’t a real remote, and most people hated keeping track of another remote anyway, especially one that got lost at the drop of a hat.

The new remote, released earlier this year and shipping with the new Apple TV, isn’t a lot different from that old white remote. It’s a nicer device. Like everything else Apple makes now, it’s longer, and it’s aluminum. It’s still got just six buttons: up, down, right, left, play/pause and menu.

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Hub New Buzz : Gmail Saves E-Mail With ‘Priority’ Message Filtering

Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a new feature called Priority Inbox — think of it as a sort of reverse spam filter which bubbles messages to the top of the queue based on what you read and respond to.
In the full browser version of Gmail, the priority inbox is on top, followed by the items you have starred, and then finally the rest of your messages in a stream as usual, with most recent on top. While that might sound complicated, after testing it over the weekend, I’d be angry if I had to go back. The new feature went live at midnight ET.
The interface is less complicated than it sounds. Important and unread e-mails hold the top position, the most recent 10 e-mails you have starred to mark their importance sit in the center, and everything else not spam shows up in the bottom panel. The system is optional, and even when turned on, you can move to the “normal” inbox view by clicking on “inbox” in the left panel.”
Google has tested the feature internally and with thousands of regular users and companies that use Google Apps, according to Keith Coleman, Gmail’s product director.
“The main measure internally was that people were happier and got some e-mail sanity back,” Coleman said.
The feature is targeted at heavy e-mail users who get hundreds, if not thousands of e-mails, per day.
“When we launched Gmail the problem was spam versus non-spam,” Coleman said. “But the problem has evolved — now it’s the stuff in between that’s hard to manage.”
Coleman refers to messages such as deal offers, e-mail lists, and updates from companies you’ve purchased from as “bologna,” — basically mail you don’t mind getting, but which gets in the way of your critical messages from co-workers, bosses, clients and friends.
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The feature will show up as a red link in the top right corner of Gmail for users this week,