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  1. Fabrics

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    115
    NoS ID
    325497
    Story no
    1 / 5

    COI synopsis: Most garments through the centuries have been made from cloth, but the way the cloth looks and feels is subtly changing in technology’s hands.

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  2. Standardisation Of Clothing

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    115
    NoS ID
    325498
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Most clothing sizes are based on statistics of height and girth as interpreted by each manufacturer, but at London’s Royal College of Art they are recording dimensions, shape, and even skin...

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  3. Pre-Shaped Clothing

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    115
    NoS ID
    325499
    Story no
    3 / 5

    COI synopsis: Much of the art of the dressmaker lies in forming a flat piece of cloth so that it fits over the curves of the body. In the future one mould may form the cloth as effectively as paper patterns,...

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  4. Acclimatisation

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    115
    NoS ID
    325500
    Story no
    4 / 5

    COI synopsis: The supersonic age takes technology to extremes of temperature, and if the jet set traveller is to keep up he must streamline his responses to changing climates. Clothing designed at...

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  5. Coffee Cattle Food

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    116
    NoS ID
    325504
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: The milk we put in our coffee may have come from coffee beans. Intermediate stages in the process are the instant coffee manufacturers, who have a disposal problem with their waste grounds, and...

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  6. Meters And Mirrors

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    118
    NoS ID
    325510
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: If our technological world is not to come to a grinding halt, the efficiency of its components must be checked for accuracy and reliability. We try out three easy-to-use devices which are...

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  7. Computerknit

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    118
    NoS ID
    325511
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: An electronic knitting machine takes the clicking of needles a long way from the days of one plain, one purl... Fairisle sweaters are a mere limbering-up exercise. But the designers of knitting...

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  8. On The Move: Computer Check

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    190
    NoS ID
    325814
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Achieving a greater standard of accuracy in analysing objects in motion is a big problem for scientists. This week we look at various new solutions to the problem of pinpointing moving objects....

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  9. Mouse Detector

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    218
    NoS ID
    325920
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Mice, those nocturnal marauders, cause thousands of pounds worth of damage in industry every year. So researchers at a British university have made a study of mice behavioural patterns that has...

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  10. No-Needle Knitting

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    218
    NoS ID
    325921
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Sweaters knitted from feathers and pineapple stalks are on the way. A new kind of knitting machine can knit a much wider range of fibres than conventional machines. The new knitting machine has...

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