WearTec

If you spend a lot of time outside during the winter months you know how hard it can be to stay warm. And don’t you say that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I live in Australia. I spent 15 years of my life waiting for the school bus in the German alpine winter, often at temperatures of minus 15 degrees Celcius or below. Unless you rug up using several layers of clothing things can get uncomfortable pretty quickly. Another downside of traditional winter clothing is that they often restrict your movement and flexibility, especially if you need to perform work or do sporting activities and that they are often too warm when going back indoors.

WarmX, a German company, may have a solution to these problems. They are selling shirts and pantyhoses that have silver fibres woven into the fabric. A small battery pack provides electricity and heats the fibres. Heat setting is adjustable. The advantage of the having the fibres directly woven into the fabric compared to traditional heating wires is less power consumption and more effective heating that works directly on the skin rather than through heat transfer from the wire.

Starting at 250 Euros for the shirt and 400 Euros for the pantyhose, the WarmX technology isn’t cheap, but then who can put a price on the comfort of being warm.