Researchers at the Polytechnic School in Montreal, Canada are exploring applications for a touch-sensitive fabric that reacts to finger swipes or touches to control any device.
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BMW planning touch sensitive fabric in future models?
Filed under: Technology , BMW , Infotainment Touchscreens are becoming common and touch pads – like those in the Audi A7 , A8 and next A3 – are gaining traction, but the next input revolution might not be gesture controls , it’s likely to be “smart fabrics” and BMW is already toying with the technology. Researchers at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada have developed a new flexible, polymer-based fiber that can be woven into existing fabrics. Essentially, it’s a capacitive pad that can register touches and swipes when alternating current is plumbed through the fibers.
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Report: ‘Smart Fabric’ could control climate, audio functions in future BMWs
Filed under: Chrysler , Ford , Earnings/Financials , Canada Ford has announced that it will give both bonuses and merit-based raises to the company’s salaried workers in the United States and Canada for the first time since 2008, according to Reuters . On average, the manufacturer will offer a 2.7 percent salary increase based on individual performance. The company stopped offering the bonuses after the financial crisis of 2009 sent automotive sales into a plunge.
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Report: Ford to pay bonuses and raises, GM and Chrysler decline to do same
Spied: 2014 Chevrolet C7 Corvette Peeking through the camouflage at America’s next favorite sports car. You may think that southeast Michigan, home to General Motorsâ proving ground in Milford, gets plenty cold enough in winter. Yet for true cold-weather testing, GM engineers subjected the next-generation C7 Corvette to the extreme chill of northern Canada. That gave our spy photographers a chance to snap photos of this prototype version of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette as it is readied for production.
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Spied: 2014 Chevrolet C7 Corvette
Filed under: Motorsports , UK There aren’t a lot of television stations in the world dedicated entirely to cars. On this side of the Atlantic, we have Speed and Discovery’s new Velocity channel, and the latter isn’t even all cars all the time. But now, the UK is getting its own dedicated Formula One network.
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Confirmed: Sky Sports gears up for F1 with dedicated channel
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , Honda , Nissan , Toyota A new study by the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association has found 70 percent of Japanese vehicles sold in the U.S. were built on a North American assembly line. According to TheDetroitBureau.com, the study found that more than 400,000 jobs have been created by Japanese automakers since Honda opened its first facility in the U.S.
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Study: 70% of Japanese vehicles sold in America are built here, too