Clevertex - Grado Zero Espace Srl
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the air out of it. It has an input or output of 4 l/min at a weight of only 25 g and runs on a 6 V battery<br />
[114].<br />
Another example for such a climate control jacket is offered by the company W.L. Gore Associates.<br />
The introduced Gore Airvantage into the market. Air is blown into an airtight insulation layer that<br />
breathes, as soon as the wearer wants to be warmer. Bugatti and Escada have integrated this<br />
technology into their collections.<br />
The Italian company <strong>Grado</strong>° zero espace is marketing under the brandname Corpe Nove clothing<br />
ranging from a jacket incorporating Aerogel and sold under the Hugo Boss label; and items, containing<br />
the fluff and seed fibres from poplar trees. ‘Feelgood clothing’ is being made from SeaCell, derived<br />
from algae.<br />
For the first time this extraordinary material, from the latest generation of thermal insulators, has been<br />
taken outside its usual sphere of use in the aerospace sector and used as a fabric coating.<br />
Liquid Ceramic’s main features are its resistance to heat and to UVA and UVB rays. It also makes the<br />
material it is applied to much more resistant to abrasion. The fact that this ceramic is liquid also makes<br />
it possible to maintain an incredible lightness and flexibility which do not alter the characteristics of the<br />
material it is coated onto.<br />
Fig. 113 The jacket produced by Corpo Nove. The liquid ceramic is used on the internal surface of the garment [101]<br />
Alyce Santoro created the so-called Sonic Fabric TM , a cloth woven from 50% prerecorded<br />
audiocassette tape and 50% cotton and which is audible. The sounds on the cassette tape in the<br />
weave can be heard when drawing a tape head over its surface. The Sonic Fabric TM was inspired by<br />
the use of small strands of cassette tape used as wind indicators and by Tibetan prayer flags inscribed<br />
with wind-activated blessings.<br />
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