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talk2myShirt talk2myShirt Wearable Technology is reaching out to the world of fashion and style. If you are interested and like to stay informed on the latest developments and products of Wearable Electronic clothing and accessory items, please visit our Blog. We also have a Articles
Verb for Shoe ? smart, interactive footwear
2008-05-06 14:54:00 Footwear is getting another upgrade by offering multi dimensional interactivity to shoes for comfort and socializing in the real as well as the virtual world. VectraSense Technologies, a spin-off company from MIT ?the mother of Wearable Electronic?, launched the smartest shoe on the market called: ‘Verb for Shoe‘. As a pioneer in the field of computerized footwear ... More About: Shoes , Footwear , Accessories , Interactive , Smart
Handwear - the interactive glove
2008-05-05 15:47:00 We have seen gloves that control the iPod, that keep the fingers cozy warm in winter and that make phone calls. The next generation of gloves will have many more sensors integrated to control multiple wearable devices by lifting different fingers. This is at least the vision of RallyPoint, a recent MIT startup, which wants to ... More About: Interactive , Concept Design
Give your feet the attention they deserve
2008-05-03 17:54:00 We have seen some hi-tech shoes lately so lets round of this week with another ‘technology meets shoe’ product, Alina Designs‘ LED lighted Dress Shoes. For women, shoes like handbags are something you can never have enough. They are bought based on emotions and only as a second thought on practicality. Let’s face it ladies - ... More About: Feet , Give , Attention
Portable Light - Wearable Electronic for the Other 90%
2008-05-02 17:29:00 I am ‘borrowing’ part of my headline from an initiative of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City which run last year an exhibition called: ‘Design for the other 90%‘. This exhibition touched on the fact that most cutting edge technological developments are accessible to only 10% of the world population while the other 90% ... More About: Electronic , Solar Power , Portable , Light
Wi-Fi sniffing sneakers
2008-05-01 08:40:00 We have seen T-Shirts that sniff out Wi-Fi signals and show them on the chest. Although this might be too much geek for some it does have appeal to others (I may count myself to the ‘others’ category). There is the other option of a more discrete Wi-Fi sniffing integrated in bags as alternative to taking ... More About: Sneakers
Smart Fabrics 2008
2008-04-30 12:37:00 For the 4th year running Intertech Pira is organizing the Smart Fabrics conference between May 5-7 in Charleston, South Carolina, US. Intertech Pira’s Smart Fabric conference is the most significant event of the year for the Wearable Electronic community and business. A long list of high profile speaker from leading Wearable Electronic companies and pioneers of wearable ... More About: Events , 2008
Italian solar fashion from Ennio Capasa
2008-04-29 15:51:00 The magic or practicality of renewable energy provided by sun light and transforming it into electrical energy via solar cells has attracted Italian fashion designer Ennio Capasa from CoSTUME NATIONAL to create a range of high end - high tech Solar Handbags combining fashion, functionality and technology wrapped in Italian design. Fine strips of mini-solar panels ... More About: Fashion , Bags , Accessories
Piezing gives the Power Dress a new meaning
2008-04-28 08:21:00 In the business world, Power -Dress means getting a ?professional looking? outfit, not to catchy, not to low profile. Your outfit should show you are in charge. In Wearable Electronic, Power-Dress has a different meaning, it actually generates power which in turn can be used to power Blackberries, iPhones and so forth. Point in case: Amanda Parkes? ... More About: Meaning
Haute Tech Fashion Jeans
2008-04-26 12:33:00 The recently published ‘Keyboard Jeans ‘ by designer Erik De Nijs on Yanko Design is adding a new twist to the Interactive Fashion trend which is slowly but steady growing. Sure, the ‘Keyboard Jeans’ are easily labeled as ‘Geeky’ and ‘Nerdy’ pushing form far beyond function but is this not the case with many Haute Couture designs ... More About: Articles , Tech , Concept Design
Solar Light cap gives shade during the day and light at night
2008-04-25 16:56:00 My first reaction seeing the 2CLight Solar Light cap was: oh no, again a funny cap with an add-on like a fan but looking a bit closer how the cap works I must say: the 2CLight Solar Light cap is a unique and useful product after all. The concept is simple but brilliant: a flexible solar ... More About: Fashion , Night
Bellysonic - the iPod for unborn Babies
2008-04-24 16:26:00 If you wonder what I am talking about today - keep on reading. Bellysonic® is a soft speaker device that enables ’soon to be moms’ to share their music with the baby in the womb. The Bellysonic is the perfect way for an expectant mom to participate in their baby’s sensory development, and to enrich their ... More About: Babies , Health Care , Ipod
FATS sneakers show how fit you are
2008-04-23 16:23:00 A group of students from the Utrecht School of Arts (NL) explored wearable electronic by adding interactivity to shoes. The result of this projects is the FATS shoe. FATS stands for ‘Fitness Achievement Technology System‘ and not as you might assume for ‘being fat’. The idea of the FATS shoe concept is: the shoes reward physical performance ... More About: Show , Sneakers , Fats
Retro style Wearable BoomBox for your iPod
2008-04-22 16:20:00 We had an article on talk2myShirt last October speculating about the revival of the BoomBox trend of the 80s in form of bags and backpacks with speaker and amplifier integrated to hook up to our 21st century small audio players like the iPod. Sure enough another option is coming to the market via iWorld with a ... More About: Ipod , Bags , Style , Retro , Boombox
Pillow with heartbeat - My Beating Heart
2008-04-21 16:23:00 The list of interactive pillows is getting longer with the My Beating Heart pillow, a pillow that has its own heart beat. My Beating Heart is the invention from Yury Gitman and has been available since 2005 but out of whatever reason I only ‘discovered’ it today. Why should a pillow with it’s own heartbeat be of ... More About: Pillow
Shirt Buttons transformed into a Wearable Remote Control
2008-04-19 06:26:00 Remote controls in clothing are around for a couple of years now, offered by different companies but they look almost always the same: five or six function buttons lined up into one row or a circular shape with a ’stick’ in the center. We haven’t seen much of a design/style creativity for textile or soft keypads in interactive fashion although I do think the underlying technologies would ‘permit’ or should I say ‘enable’ the design of different shapes and styles. A refreshingly new design concept around a wearable remote control from designer Tobi Kim might change the way fashion designer will see future Interactive Clothing designs. The soft electronic device called ‘Multi-Chalk‘ is designed to slip on anything with a button. It can be designed to compliment your outfit and style. Multi-Chalk is envisioned by Tobi Kim as a ‘universal remote to control anything and everywhere with the push of a button‘ that can be pro... More About: Remote Control , Shirt , Control , Remote , Buttons
Vital Jacket - the future of Heart Monitoring
2008-04-17 16:13:00 The Vital Jacket ® is an intelligent wearable garment that is able to continuously monitor electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate as used in medical environment, high performance sports and fitness. The company behind this futuristic Jacket/Shirt is Biodevices, S.A., a spin-off from IEETA (Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro / University of Aveiro, ... More About: Health Care , Future , The Future
Hot Bargain: Soundwave Backpack
2008-04-16 15:16:00 We have covered G-Tech products numerous times, no wonder they have a large selection of iPod and Audio bags in their program so it was fairly easy to find a hot bargain: the Soundwave Backpack with integrated soft speaker technology from NXT. Reason for me to look around for Audio Backpacks: I noticed today quite some ... More About: Accessories , Bargain
Ergoskin: Interactive Underwear
2008-04-15 15:33:00 We have seen Interactive Clothing and Interactive Bags, that’s right in the center of talk2myShirt. Today we add another interactive garment: Ergoskin the Interactive Underwear . Ergoskin is the creation of Talia Elena Radford Cryns, a student of the University for Applied Arts, Industrial Design, in Vienna - Austria. Ergoskin is a type of functional underwear with ergonomic ...
Book preview: Fashionable Technology
2008-04-14 14:30:00 Usually we do book reviews but today we are ahead of time and bring a book preview. Reading the description of Sabine Seymour’s upcoming book - ‘Fashionable Technology : The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology’ I went straight ahead for a pre-order. Sabine Seymour offers in her book an up-to-date look on the interplay between ... More About: Preview , Book Reviews , Book
Wearable Antenna
2008-04-12 16:01:00 The idea of Wearable Antenna s is around for some time but I have never seen someone actually developing or even producing this type of antenna, that is until today. On my restless search for Wearable Electronic news I found a press release from Pharad, founded in 2003 to develop innovative and wearable antenna technology primarily for ...
HearWear: Fashion that interacts with the environment
2008-04-11 14:10:00 We covered recently a T-Shirt that gives off sound so lets have a look to the opposite: clothing that listens, reacts and interacts with our environment full of noise and sounds. HearWear is a concept design by Younghui Kim and Milena Iossifova that uses the sound/noise level of the environment to create active color patterns on ... More About: Environment , Fashion , The Environment
T-Sketch puts a illuminated whiteboard on your chest
2008-04-10 15:23:00 Another day, another unique T-Shirt . After seeing the amazing Soundtrack T-Shirt becoming a reality the next big thing might be the T-Sketch T-Shirt that made it’s round all over the Internet might be another surprise hit among the techno fashion community. The T-Sketch T-Shirt is a full member of Interactive Fashion as it provides you your ... More About: Whiteboard , Chest
Soundtrack T-Shirt becomes reality through the power of the Consumer voice
2008-04-09 14:39:00 The Sound track T-Shirt started out as an April Fool’s day joke but will become reality thanks to the power of the Consumer voice. Point in case: on April 1st we (and many other blogs) posted about the Soundtrack T-Shirt from ThinkGeek which was ‘created’ as an April Fool’s day joke. An attempt to order it ended ... More About: Power , Reality , Voice
Walk on Light - the Luminoso Rug
2008-04-08 16:13:00 Rugs that light-up seems to become a new trend for the sophisticated lifestyle. First we saw the FootLume with EL light in a Rug to light the way in the dark and now we have the Luminoso, a Wool Rug interwoven with LEDs. The Luminoso is a creation from Top Floor an interior design company focussed on ... More About: Light , Walk
Urban Performer Unit for your digital lifestyle
2008-04-07 14:21:00 Urban Tool the Digital Lifestyle label from Vienna is preparing the launch of another cool urban tool, the Urban Performer Unit.We have seen last month the perCushion, a pillow that allows to make phone calls, a great accessory for the digital lifestyle at home. The target for the Urban Performer Unit is the digital lifestyle ... More About: Bags , Urban
Interactive Textiles for body mapping garments
2008-04-05 15:42:00 Interactive Textiles are not limited to control the iPod or other electronic devices but could also be useful for body-mapping garments as a project by Australians CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology demonstrates. The idea is as following: to help basketball players to find their ideal shot-making rhythm and motion the system plays a series of beats ... More About: Articles , Body , Interactive , Mapping
New Solar bags from Sunload
2008-04-04 16:44:00 In time for the sunny season Sunload started rolling out the 2008 Solar bags we wrote about back in January. The first in our overview is the SolarRucksack (backpack) which comes in two sizes, small and large and many color shades. Sunloads Solar bags come with a ‘on board’ storage battery and can operate any electric device ... More About: Fashion , Bags
Wearable Sun Power from Konarka
2008-04-03 15:21:00 Looking forward to long days with lot of sunshine made me check out what’s up in the research kitchen regarding wearable solar technology, speak flexible and hopefully lower cost solar panels. My most promising find: Konarka, one of the hot favorites in the field of wearable solar power working on Power Plastic® that converts light to ... More About: Articles , Solar Power
Wearable Electronic will ShapeYou
2008-04-02 15:23:00 Spring has officially arrived although in some areas there is not much of it to see yet. Nevertheless you have to plan ahead for the summer beach or pool season meaning: get in Shape now. For a starter, running is the most easiest to do which makes you loose some pounds on the way and you ... More About: Sports , Electronic
Soundtrack T-Shirt replaces your iPod
More articles from this author:2008-04-01 15:07:00 Forget your iPod or whatever music player you have. Your T-Shirt will make the soundtrack for your life. The ultimate Wearable Audio solution. ThinkGeek, famous for funky techno enabled T-Shirt s offers the Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt with an build in speaker right in front of your chest. Unfortunately the remote control is not integrated into the shirt as we have seen by so many jackets using textile switches. This should have been no problem to integrate as well, I would think. The shirt’s music system has a long list of pre-recorded sound tracks which will cover almost any live situation you get into. With a push of a button you can spice up your life with the right soundtrack like: Entrance Theme, Chase Theme, Romantic Theme, Sexy Time Theme, Victory Theme and many more. An equal long list of sound effects covers: Cheering, Booing, Crying, Gunshots, Police Siren and more. The remote allows the selection of 13 music themes and 11 sound effects. Music and sound effects fade u... More About: Ipod 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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