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Skiin creates self-heating and wire-free wearable base layer SkiinCore, a self-heating and wire-free wearable base layer for cold weather developed by Canadian company Skiin, launched on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter in November. SkiinCore is knitted from a conductive yarn that is said to hold 18 watts of heating power and last for up to eight hours. The ultra-thin wearable is designed to deliver heat to where wearers need it most and is programmed with machine-learning to adapt to the wearer‘s optimal body heat based on their movement and the outside temperature. “We wanted to take the wires out of wearable technology and, living in Canada, we know what it‘s like to deal with harsh cold weather,“ said SkiinCore’s product manager Hin Fan. “While developing a textile computing platform, the team discovered a way to transfer heat through the fibres of everyday fabrics. The result is SkiinCore, a wire-free heated base layer that learns your optimal temperature the more you wear it.“ The SkiinCore Team spent three years developing and designing the product, and the prototype received the ‘Best New Wearable Technology Device‘ award from IDTechEx and the ‘Product Innovation Award‘ from the Canadian Printable Electronics Symposium. www.skiin.com INDUSTRY NEWS www.images-magazine.com 18 images JANUARY 2019 SkiinCore is a self-heating, wire-free wearable base layer Fespa is set for an ‘explosion of possibilities‘ Fespa has revealed that its campaign strapline for its 2019 Global Print Expo and the co-located European Sign Expo is ‘Explosion of Possibilities‘. “Our insights from previous events and from this year’s Fespa Print Census affirm that print service providers (PSPs) and sign- makers are continually looking at new openings and ways to grow their businesses”, comments Roz Guarnori, exhibitions director at Fespa. “The Explosion of Possibilities theme for our 2019 global events underlines the boundless opportunity there is within our industry, powered by technology and media innovations, and an irrepressible entrepreneurial appetite to experiment with new applications and enter new markets.” The 2019 Fespa Global Print Expo is taking place at Messe Munich, Germany, from 14-17 May 2019. www.fespaglobalprintexpo.com Fespa’s 2019 strapline is ‘Explosion of Possibilities’ RemaDays Warsaw 2019 registration now open Registration for RemaDays Warsaw 2019, the international advertising and printing trade fair held in Poland in February, is now open. Online registration is free; those registering on the day will need to pay either €5 or €7. The show runs from 13-15 February 2019. www.remadays.com Advertising and printing show RemaDays takes place in February For the latest industry news visit: www.images-magazine.com