Clevertex - Grado Zero Espace Srl

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