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ElekTex Textile Touchpad

ElekTex 6-button Textile Touchpad

ElekTex is the pioneering touch-sensitive textile which can be easily integrated into any textile product to make that product interactive.

QIO Elektex touchpad’s work with any and all of QIO's PANIQ electronics products making it easy to integrate QIO universal controls into practically any textile consumer good from jackets, jeans, and shirts to bags and other accessory items.

ElekTex interative textile switches have been used in hundreds of thousands of garments over the past several years.

Touch the QIO touchpad to change tracks on your iPod, place a call or turn on embedded lighting or heating.

ElekTex Touchpads offer significant benefits to customers interested in interactive apparel applications:

  • 100% fabric. Textile is familiar to the design and manufacturing process so learning times are shorter.

  • Flexible and lightweight. At less than 2gms and less than 2mm thick it can be integrated into the thinnest shell or thickest jacket.

  • No mechanical parts enhances durability and reliability. ElekTex is warrantied for 100,000 key presses.

  • Washable and Drycleanable.

  • Can be overlaid with graphic artwork or almost any type of material, including leather, nylon.

ElekTex Textile Touchpad: Integration with varying fabric ribbon lengths

We offer a range of standard ribbon cable lengths which allow the ElekTex touchpad to be mounted in different locations within a garment or bag depending on the final product design requirements. For example:

  • A short ribbon cable length (100 mm) is suitable for integrating the touchpad on the lapel of a business suit.

  • Whereas a long one (750 mm) is suitable for attaching the touchpad to the sleeve of a large size male garment.

  • A medium length (550mm) is typically used for incorporation of the touchpad on the straps of a backpack.

The ribbon length is measured from the top of the touchpad to the plastic connector at the far end.
The table below contains the most popular standard ribbon cable lengths used:

Ribbon Lengths