Zeitschrift für Textilwissenschaft und -technik

In the twenty-first century, product making has evolving widely in all such field of engineering and technology. Textiles are not lagging on the marathon of such development and making. Smart textiles are the exciting innovation in the field of textiles and clothing. It can sense and analyze the signals and responds in a perfect way and the response which was being made can be electrical, thermal, mechanical, chemical, magnetic or from other source. The extent of smartness can be divided into three subgroups such as passive smart textiles, active smart textiles, and very smart textiles. Now it is not just seen in the Hollywood movies, it is not only limited in our world of fantasy, but also it comes in our day-to-day life with at most perfect possibility. It is now commonly used in numbers of fields. So, it can also be called the next generation clothing. This review aims to show the story of smart textiles, its types and functions. Present smart textiles products and their applications as well as market overview of smart textiles have also been discussed.