An electronic device such as a cover for a portable device or other electronic equipment may have circuitry mounted in a housing. The housing may be formed from layers of material such as fabric and polymer layers. The circuitry of the electronic device may include components mounted on a printed circuit. The components may include movable components such as keys in a keyboard. A fabric layer may overlap the keys. Border regions of the fabric layer that surround each key may be characterized by a stiffness. To ensure that the keys or other movable components in the device exhibit satisfactory stiffness levels, the keys can be tested and selected border regions or other fabric layer portions may be laser ablated or otherwise processed to locally reduce fabric layer stiffness.

A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Users may communicate with other users on how wear patterns should be applied onto base garments and make changes to the wear patterns or other garment features, while sharing with other users their progress.

A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. The system swaps garments in a digital asset to garments that are designed using the system.

A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. The system provides feedback to the user on how their designs may appear in a virtual storefront, such as through virtual reality or augment reality techniques.

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for cleaning a substrate, such as a fabric material, involving the application of optical energy to the substrate, typically in the form of a beam of light, where the energy of the beam causes removal of the contaminant from substrate, such as from the fibres of a fabric material. The cleaning may occur via any mechanism, including one or more of, alone or in any combination, ablation, melting, heating or reaction with the substrate or contaminant or agent introduced to aid in the cleaning. The optical energy is typically applied to a selected area of the substrate (e.g., as a beam), and the substrate and beam or optical energy source moved relative to one another so as to clean a larger area of the substrate, either by moving the substrate or the beam, or both. Movement of the beam with respect to the substrate can be attained through a beam scanning mechanism or through movement of the optical source itself.

The present invention relates to a carbon fiber carbonization apparatus using a microwave. The carbon fiber carbonization apparatus using a microwave comprises: a carbonization furnace into which the microwave is irradiated from an irradiation part disposed at one side thereof; a moving tube through which a carbon fiber moves along the inside thereof and which is mounted to pass through the carbonization furnace; and a heating element coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the moving tube to absorb the microwave so as to generate heat. A portion of the moving tube is covered by the heating element at the position, but a remaining portion is exposed at a position at which the heating element is coupled to the moving tube.

A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Users may collaborate while designing the apparel and designate what items should belong in specific collections.

Knitmorphs and methods of knitmophing include knitting one or more yarn materials into knitted structure having a first shape. A thermal load may then be applied to all or part of the knitted structure to deform the knitted structure into a second shape. The thermal load can be removed to return the knitted structure to the first shape or a hardening agent can be applied to lock the knitted structure in the second shape.

Knitmorphs and methods of knitmophing include knitting one or more yarn materials into knitted structure having a first shape. A thermal load may then be applied to all or part of the knitted structure to deform the knitted structure into a second shape. The thermal load can be removed to return the knitted structure to the first shape or a hardening agent can be applied to lock the knitted structure in the second shape.

By sequentially performing: a step (I) of dissolving fullerene C.sub.70 in an organic solvent to prepare a fullerene solution; a step (II) of immersing a material carbon fiber in the fullerene solution; and a step (III) of extracting the carbon fiber from the fullerene solution and drying the extracted carbon fiber, a carbon fiber on which fullerene C.sub.70 adsorbs is obtained.