The contemporary Knitting Industry Articles are based on the grave focus on smart clothing in transforming product innovation. The knitwear is changing to a more innovative product like a necessity in the change of the wearable technology as it becomes more common.
The new articles are about the cooperation of textile engineers and software developers to produce clothes that measure the heart rate, posture, or temperature. Such knit smart clothing is in application in the healthcare industry, sports and defense and are comfortable as well as providing real time data monitoring.
In addition, new developments based on conductive-type yarns and including embedded sensors are being reported in industry journals that allow stretch and feel not to be sacrificed. This is mostly initiated by startups and academic organizations and is mostly initiated by government tech grants or privately funded accelerators.