PRATO, Italy, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Italian company Luminex announced it has been developing clothing products lined with light-generating fiber-optic technology.
The company has created shirts, pants and shawls that glow using fiber optics, the BBC reported Monday.
"It is a fabric containing, amongst other things, fiber-optics, but there is also a technical side to it," said Luminex's Cristiano Peruzzi.
"The system consists of cabling, and the fiber-optics are lit by high-efficiency LEDs (light-emitting diodes). The system powering it varies according to the function."
"There are more immediate applications, everything from clothes for special events or occasions and accessories, and also household furnishings, cushions etc.
"But there are also a whole range of applications that are more technical, such as the security and emergency services."
Peruzzi told the BBC the clothing could save lives in low-visibility rescue situations.
FROM:http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060828-020135-1596r
