New research: the real barriers stopping e-textiles scaling to production
Peer-reviewed research led by WearNex founder Michael John Lynch reveals the real barriers to scaling e-textile production and the fixes that actually help.
Bring your wearable and e-textile ideas to life
WearNex specialises in wearable e-textile product development, helping innovators, brands and researchers take an e-textile or wearable concept and turn it into something that ships. We cover conception, prototyping, engineering, intellectual property and manufacturing readiness, so a promising idea becomes a protected, reliable product.
Wherever your idea is starting from
Whether it's a sketch, a demo, or still just an idea, we help clients bring it to life. Our team is a hand-picked group of designers, inventors, engineers, developers and healthcare professionals who design, develop and test innovative wearables. Whether you need a device ready for clinical trials, a prototype for your next pitch, or a strategy for bringing a product to market, the goal stays the same: high impact, inventive, and built to help our clients leapfrog the competition.
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What we do
E-textile Product Development
Electronics, sensing and textile integration from concept through validated prototypes and production-ready designs.
Wearable Product Development
Hardware, sensing, embedded systems, mechanical design and product engineering for body-worn technology.
Smart Garments & Connected Textiles
Integrating sensors, interconnects, electronics and connectivity into textile products designed for real use.
Prototype to Manufacture
Resolving integration, durability, washability, interconnect, assembly and manufacturing challenges before scale.
Invention & IP
Identifying what’s genuinely patentable, preparing invention disclosures, and working with patent attorneys to protect it properly, backed by the technical know-how to spot what’s actually novel, not just what looks new on paper.
Technical Due Diligence
Independent technical assessment of wearable and e-textile products, technology, inventions and development plans.
Why WearNex
The hard part is the interface between disciplines
E-textile products sit between disciplines: textile engineering, electronics, embedded systems, industrial and product design, sensing, firmware and software, and manufacturing. Most projects that stall don't fail because of a single discipline — they fail at the join, where garment manufacturing, electronics, software and IP all have to work together. WearNex exists to connect those disciplines, rather than treat the garment and the electronics as two separate products.
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Where Next?
Every project we've worked on started with someone asking exactly that. Get in touch and let's find out where next for yours.