Each of us, at least once in our lives, has been touched and impressed by extraordinary accomplishments in space exploration. The sending of Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, for instance, was the equivalent of golf's hole-in-one-only the "green" was millions of kilometres far, and not a few hundred yards...

For a long period, fashion designers of European countries like Italy and France have dominated garment and fashion industry. However, in the last 30 years India has been through a revolution in terms of fashion designing. Fashion is a term commonly used in relation to clothes, dresses, garments, etc. There has been perceptible improvement in use of quality textiles and materials by the fashion designers...

It will be puzzling to the readers, why on earth I am using the word tango and in what sense? A brief introduction on tango will make sense and its relevance to the technical textiles industry in India. Tango is an Argentinean dance, which has secured its right and prominent place in the western ballroom dancing. It takes two to tango....

Heat resistant fabrics are used in fields of high-tech applications where exceptional strength is required. In industries like metal, aluminum and steel, workers are frequently exposed to heavy molten metal splashes. Hence flame resistant garments are worn over the secondary garments....

Human body needs to get enough oxygen. When a person does hard exercises, the body is unable to get adequate oxygen, causing lactic acid to be formed in the muscles and spread into the bloodstream. This hurts the muscles and makes a person to develop fatigue....

A soldier at the battle field, a fire fighter or police officer, who is wounded and unconscious, cannot request help to a command post. A patient whose health is very critical cannot inform his condition to the doctors. But the clothes they are wearing can solve this problem by detecting blood...