A SHIRT which rolls up its own sleeves when you get too warm has been
unveiled by a tech-savvy Italian fashion house. And what’s more, its inventors
say it will never need ironing.
The fabric for the prototype shirt is woven from fibres of the shape-memory
alloy nitinol, interspersed with nylon. The alloy can be deformed, and then
returned to its original shape when heated to a certain temperature.
It is this shape memory property that is key to how the “memory metal shirt”
works. “The sleeve fabric is programmed to shorten as soon as the room
temperature becomes a…
