Apparel Tech Uses 'Electro-Osmosis' to Keep Winter Athletes Feeling Dry

A new jacket technology, co-developed by scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology research institute, helps athletes by actively transporting sweat and moisture away from the body and to the outside - due to ultra-thin, electrified layers of gold in the fabric .

Transcript

00:00:04 Hyderabad is the first real improvement for moisture management in Apparel's since the 1970s we have developed a special membrane where we add a small amount of voltage creating the membrane into a set of micro pumps that gives us an extreme transport capacity for moisture from the inside of the membrane to the outside of the membrane when I go exercising I

00:00:33 always feel that I'm getting too wet too fast the idea behind Hyderabad started already in 1999 one of our founders tonight's nests had developed underwear with very good moist to transport abilities but he soon realized that it won't help to have transport abilities on your inner layer because your next layer will be a barrier for the moisture

00:00:59 transport the key property of the technology is that we manage moisture and clothing on a level matching human perspiration level independent of climatic conditions so now I've been out cross-country ten kilometres normally I would be soaked with sweat I'm still wet but due to the Hyderabad I feel dry and as you also can see on my back I have prints more or less from where the

00:01:31 panels are where I'm driving [Music] the plan now is to offer yak jackets from juice with the Hyderabad technology integrated for the winter season 1890 this means that you can go to your local store and buy choose jacket in October 28 [Music]