You can buy apparel that battles bugs, fights the sun's UV rays, tackles icky perspiration stains, repels water and red wine while resisting wrinkling.

There are jackets wired for your MP3 player and sporting a fabric keypad on the sleeve. There are clothes that tame the human scent of hunters. And by February, women will be able to shop for camisoles that soothe with aloe vera.

Do they work? Apparently they do.

That there is so much easy-care clothing in stores these days can be credited in part to nanotechnology, the buzzword du jour in all sorts of areas. In the case of apparel, nanotechnology shows up in everything from outerwear to underwear and involves fiddling around with fibers and fabrics and finishes at the molecular level

So what's coming up?

Buzz Off clothing, which battles mosquitoes, ticks, ants, flies, chiggers and midges, plans to expand its line next spring and roll out jeans for men. The product, from Ex Officio, a Seattle-based firm specializing in clothing for travel and the outdoors, arrived in stores only last fall.

Prefer clothing that battles odor? Or maybe moisturizes as you wear it? Some new socks using Invista's moisture-wicking Coolmax are incorporating a new odor-managing component called Fresh FX; they're already in Defeet cycling socks.

These products spell hope for moms like Karine Greene. When a friend whose husband worked for a firm that did work for Nano-Tex, a North Carolina-based company that has invented some of these fabrics, asked Greene to have her boys test-drive some clothing, she admitted she was doubtful.

She took her two sons, 5-year-old Tyler and 3-year-old Daniel, to a kids birthday party, expecting the sort of cuisine-versus-clothing disasters rampant at such affairs, especially because her sons, dressed in the test clothing button-down white oxford shirts and khakis from Old Navy, arrived at a gathering that featured pink beverages and make-your-own ice cream sundaes.

"My youngest son had a huge thing of chocolate syrup, and it just went all down the front. And I thought, this thing is just going to set and stain," recalled the 34-year-old mom from Burlingame, Calif. "But with a napkin, I just wiped it off.

"A lot of times you see things on the market, and you think, it's a little gimmicky," she said. "Those clothes actually washed up beautifully."

You and your fancy nanotech clothing. Ill stick with regular clothing thanks. Mosquitoes, ticks, ants, flies, chiggers and midges need to live too, they are entitled to live on this Earth as much as you. And what good is wearing clothing that never stains or wrinkles? Thats no fun, It does not even sound like your skin can breathe.

Athenian, your parents are rich and you live in a mansion don't you?

I'm going to have to find some of those that repel insects. I'm tired of being bug smorgasbord every time I go out. It's not even spring yet and I've already gotten a tick. *shudders*

well its tough, you will have to use the clothes... or you simply dont buy any.

All clothes will use nanotechnology, They will be stain resistant, wont crease, they will control the tempature. They will also monitor your vital signs.

these clothes do not look any DIFFERENT from normal clothes btw

Example:

heres a shirt that uses nanotechnology... No matter what you spill or chuck at it, it will roll off

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...975047?v=glance



You can buy it here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...975047?v=glance

You are beginning to sound imperialistic and despotic.
No thank you, Ill live without it, Mr. Anti-Christ.

you dont seem to understand do you..

nevermind, you will learn

What is anti-christ have to do with nanotech ?

My black Jacket uses nano-care stain repellent . Very cool actually . Even if I forget to wash it it always looks clean and rarely starts to smell . I wash it anyways of course , but its still a pretty usefull peice of clothing to own .

Pretty expensive though . I bought it for 50$ ...and that was when it was on a 65% off clearance sale .

Coo, I just ordered that shirt, It has some good reviews and it says that it really works.

Anything I should avoid that will wreck it. Because IM sure it doesnt repell everything .. ?

Anyway, atleast I dont have to iron it , haha

i think you just caught on to polyester or maybe nylon hmmmm

eh?

im guessing because those materials are allready water resistant, not sure if he realizes that this shift isnt just water resistant

2 thoughts here

1. "old" retro non-nano clothes will be all the rage in 50 years so dont throw out your levis
i think some will pay big to wear a regular pair of jeans

2. dont know if i believe it or not
but im positive some people will "rebel" against the new clothes as they will declare it another tracking device used by the NWO

OMG! I need those!! Ive tried every kind of bug spray you can think of...and it still doesnt work! I get eaten alive during the summer

I have no idea why one would rebel. Most people carry a cd player or Ipod around with them right? They carry a mobile phone ? or a PDA?... its basicly the same thing only shrunk very small into the clothes, you wont be able to see the chips.

Besides, These nano-care clothes only have millions of nano whiskers, thats what gives it the stain resistance and wrinkle free

Very simple science, very easy to do, at no real extra cost.. The nano-care never wears out either like old sort of coatings would..

Eventually the name NANO will be dropped out of it, its just a buzz word going around at the moment. when its very much in society and business... nano word wont be on shirts or whatever. It will just be naturally stain resistant.

personally i have np with nano-clothes

but you dont think some will complain and theorize about nano-tracking devices in the clothes ?

im sure we have a few in this forum that will

they just need to be educated really...

If they choose to ignore it, then thats ignorant

whoa182 have u heard of a new spacesuit US are goin 2 use in the future?

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/te...ons_050126.html

(p.s for anyone out there not in the know, hazard of nanotech http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
http://www.newstarget.com/7001110.shtml )

Yeah Ive read it before...

If you would like to see a VIDEO of bill joy discussing that article instead, you can watch here

http://www.meta-library.net/gnr/index-frame.html
Bill Joy: Genomics, Nanotechnology and Robotics

or read that 11 page article lol

p.s the video doesnt work btw on my pc

Probably cos it requires " REAL PLAYER " - its free

ive also heard of 'smart' materials used in wet suits for the American Seals but cant find the link

This might interest you http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,1331...tml?ESRC=dod.nl

got the article on focus magazine. u got it by any chance or sumthin similar?

Communicative Clothing May Expand Soon

Have you ever dreamed of having a shirt that functions like an air conditioner? Or pants that never get dirty when you spill something on them?

Well get ready for this new innovation in clothing because it’s going to grant what you have been wishing for.

With the extraordinary development of nanotechnology, clothing will no longer be just a day-to-day human need. Nanotechnology optimizes efficiency and provides smart solutions for the future of human civilization.

Nanotechnology works by configuring molecules to change in size and properties for enhancement as in the case of smart fabrics.

Nanotechnology is literally shaping the fabric of our lives by creating not just clothes that may never wear out, but smart shirts that track all kinds of physiological data; it's developing everything from new military uniforms to the ultimate in home-health-care pajamas.

Motorola Inc. is working on developing clothing that can talk to washing machines, giving instructions on how the garments should be treated. Chemicals giant DuPont Co. and textiles concern Burlington Industries Inc. also see potential for a huge new market in clothing that looks like the same old thing but functions more like an appliance.

Nano-Tex is already licensing its technology to 20 of the world’s biggest enterprises. There’s a chance people may be wearing the fabric without realizing it. It’s an example of the revolutionary innovation that’s beginning to appear in everyday life, but which, so far, is invisible to the naked eye.

Life-saving fabrics

Ultimately, the market for smart clothing will extend far beyond its current audience of early adapters with fetishes for gear.

Textiles are getting smarter, as companies weave tiny sensors into fabric to gather and distribute information about the human wearing it.

Philips, the Dutch multinational, has developed a line of underwear, bras and accessories containing tiny electronic devices that monitor heart rates, body temperature, insulin levels and other parameters. When some measure goes awry -- think heart attacks or strokes -- your boxer shorts call an ambulance.

Philips expects the product to be widely available in Europe by the end of 2006.

Germany's Infineon Technologies offers something called a thermogenerator, which measures the difference between body temperature and the temperature of the garment. Too cold or too warm? Your shirt will be able to fix it.

Then there's the "joy dress," which has been prototyped by Alexandra Fede, an Italian designer. It massages women as they wear it, again via tiny sensors and a programmable microchip in the fabric.

The ideas are coming fast and furious. Orvis has a hit with its Buzz Off line of clothes, which emit insect-repellant scents (from $18 for socks to $170 for a jacket). Fly fishers like them, but so would people in malaria-ridden neighborhoods.

Not one to go wading through wetlands? There may still be a scent-emitting textile for you. Various companies are working on fabrics that sense when you sweat, then counteract the odor by releasing perfume.


http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/13/pf/goodlife/smart_clothing/

Well I got my NanoShirt and it definitly works lol...

Was just outside and had my shirt on, my nephew was out the garden and using this water gun thing to get everyone wet lol. As he aimed it at me the water just basicly bounced off and then I wiped the remaining bits of water off lol... While everyone else was totally wet it looked like not one drop of water touched me haha

Although its not totally water proof, it holds off the water from getting in for a while. It doesnt really sink through, just stays ontop or rolls off