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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
The next step to Wearable Electronic: Stretchable Electronic
2008-03-31 15:28:00 For a seamless integration of electronic into clothing solutions have to be found that conform with the surrounding material, in the case of Wearable Electronic this means with textiles. Most textiles are stretchable, at least to a certain extend. If the textiles would not stretch the wearing comfort would be very limited. The clothing will not follow our bodies movement and look stiff if not limiting our movement at all. Bendable electronics can be found as commercial products but they represent only a first step into the ‘right’ direction. Bendable electronic can follow curves like but do not follow properly the movement of clothing which requires often a certain degree of stretching of the material. A recently published work by a group of Scientist at the University of Illinois promises flexible silicon and plastic circuits that can potentially be used for integration into clothing. This technology might open the doors for new Wearable Electronic (and other) applicati... More About: Step
Solar bag Spring 2008 collection from Noon Solar
2008-03-29 06:31:00 Noon launched last autumn the most stylish looking Solar totes and satchels which have sold out already. If you did not manage to get your Noon Solar bag you have another chance: in a few days Noon will launch the Spring 2008 Solar totes and satchels collection looking as gorgeous as the last line. The new models (pictured on the left) are the Sawyer, a unisex messenger bag in mustard and chocolate and the Oakley, a maroon tote. Among the solar bags in the market, Noon’s solar bags are not only very fashionable looking, they come with a high end solar-to-electricity conversion module. The module shows the loading status of the battery, a very helpful feature to manage your power eating gadgets. In case of rainy days you can load up the bags power module via mains to ensure enough power is in your bag for an extra charge of the portable devices while on a extended road trip. Noon takes the environmental sustainability to the a highest levels using carefully chosen materials for...
Power ties, a great gift for engineers, scientists and gadget fan-boys
2008-03-28 07:50:00 When it comes to fashion accessories the boys have usually less choice than the girls. One of the fashion accessories where men can express his individuality is a tie. Single color ties for the more conservative occasions, patterned ties for the smart casual and the myriad of printed ties to express any kind of mood, taste, preferences and what else you have. Enlighted, a company founded by Janet Cooke Hansen to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer offers the Power Ties™ collection adding a new light dimension to ties. Next to a couple of mono color ties with light points a Printed Circuit Board Tie with 5 red LEDs attracted my attention. This cute tie makes a great gift for engineers, computer scientists, and gadget fan-boys. This is not to say engineer and gadget girls can not use this tie as well. Many girls ‘borrow’ a tie from their boyfriends once in a while to spice up the outfit. The circuit board pattern is printed on the fabri... More About: Great , Gadget , Gift , Engineers
FootLume, the glow rug for night time navigation in your home
2008-03-26 21:18:00 Our homes get a lot of attention lately from the ’soft technology’ innovation corner. We have covered the wakeup call with the glow Pillow and now we have a rug that lights our way to the bed or bathroom at night: the FootLume - a rug that glows. FootLume, created by Zoe Robson and Leona Dean, is an illuminating rug that adds a touch of truly contemporary style for the design conscious home. But there is also a practical element in the FootLume concept: pressure sensors in the rug activate light patterns with electroluminescent technology used for example in the WiFi Shirt of Equalizer Shirt. The sensor will activate light pattern with each step showing the way in the dark. EL technology gives off soft light just enough for indication without illuminating the whole room. Zoe and Leona met back in 2005 while studying for a BSC course in Engineering Design. During their study time they came up with FootLume next to other ideas and started their own company – Zolo Designs... More About: Time , Home , Night , Navigation , Glow
Dress up with your gadgets
2008-03-26 07:59:00 A recent interview given by Rod Tanks, managing director of Smart Fabrics highlights the difficulties Wearable Electronic is facing but also indicates that Wearable Electronic is ready to take off. This interview is full of very interesting observations on Wearable Electronic. Coming from a businessman Like Rod Tanks who’s company is one of the first 100% dedicated companies for Wearable Electronic products since 2003, counts even more. An interesting analogy Rod Tank makes is: “The market in general will take off,” he says. “Cast your mind back to the first mobile phones, which were like carrying bricks around, and there were probably only about half a dozen streets in Sydney where they could work.” I can confirm that not only in Sydney but many parts of major cities around the world where without cell phone reception just 10 years back. As soon as consumers saw the added value of cell phones to their life this business exploded and billions have been ... More About: Gadgets , Dress
Design your Music T-Shirt by Music and Sons
2008-03-25 08:44:00 My favorite T-Shirt brand Music and Sons added a new dimension to their Music T-Shirt range: consumer can vote on their site which of the many Music T-Shirt designs should make it to a final product into the online store. Cool idea to be involved in the final product selection, a kind of interactivity and involvement ... More About: Design
Emotional LadyBag with don?t forget me feature
2008-03-24 08:58:00 A everyday situation: you are too late, dump everything in your bag, rush to your first appointment of the day and then it hits you: forgot the cell-phone or keys or wallet, iPod or Blackberry you name it, all the essential stuff we need for our daily survival in the digital and real world. Our gadgets ... More About: Feature , Concept Design , Emotional
Wearables Master Class - Design the symbiosis of digital components and clo
2008-03-22 07:49:00 Building on the last workshop: Design ing Hybrid Wearables, Mediamatic organizes an advanced wearable course from Apr. 15 to 18 in Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam: Wearables Master Class - Design the symbiosis of digital components and clothing Trainers, lecturers & assistants for this workshop: Leah Buechley, Maurin Donneaud, Vincent Roudaut, Anouk Wipprecht and Dirk van Oosterbosch. This highly creative ... More About: Events , Concept Design , Digital
Interactive Apparel sale by O?Neill
2008-03-21 13:18:00 Few days ago we presented some links where to pick up O’Neill ’s cool h4 Interactive Apparel for a reduced price. Today we found out O’Neill is having their own online Sale , offering the complete h4 Wearable Electronic range for an average discount of around ?80.- or $120.- not bad for a cool iPod Jacket like the ... More About: Backpack
Secret Sale by ScotteVest
2008-03-21 11:41:00 Secret and Sale in our headline suggest something very special - right?! We will not disappoint you in this respect. ScotteVest celebrates it’s 7th anniversary, seven years since the first technology enabled jacket became reality, the forerunner of Interactive Clothing. To celebrate this anniversary in style, Scott Jordan, CEO and Founder of ScotteVest, is holding a Secret ... More About: Secret
Show your workout data on Facebook
2008-03-20 14:33:00 Two New Zealand companies have developed a merino shirt that promises to revolutionize the way athletes measure, track and share information about their performance. South Island-based sportswear innovation company i-RULE and Auckland-based smart-fabric monitoring company Zephyr Technology combined forces to create the Sputnik shirt, named after the world?s first artificial satellite which means “co-traveler”, “traveling companion” ... More About: Sports , Workout , Show , Data , Facebook
Sweet dreams with the Speaker Pillow
2008-03-19 16:10:00 Having difficulty to fall asleep after a stressful day? We found something to skip the sleeping pills: the Sleep Better Sleepsonic® Speaker Pillow . We had all sorts of speaker pillows in our coverage but the new range of Sleepsonic® is positively outstanding. Firstly there is the benefit of not needing additional batteries unlike all the other speaker ... More About: Dreams , Sweet , Sweet Dreams
Cycling Jacket from Leah Buechley shows direction of Wearable Electronic
2008-03-18 10:41:00 Leah Buechley the Innovator and Creator of the most advanced e-textile kit, the LilyPad Arduino, keeps on surprising the world with new ideas fusing electronic and clothing. Her latest work a turn signal biking jacket is an excellent example how e-textiles can add high value to ‘conventional’ clothing. Safety and visibility while cycling in low light ... More About: Electronic , Cycling , Jacket , Concept Design , Corner
Cool School gear - a binder that doubles as speaker
2008-03-17 08:06:00 School supplies never sounded so good! Five Star®, maker of cool, high quality binder adds a new dimension to binders by integrating NXT speaker technology. That’s a innovative way breathing new life in commodities like binders, something that has been around for ages. Sure, you select your binder based on the looks, your favorite color, image ... More About: Speaker , Accessories , Cool , School , Gear
Wearable Electronic in health care - the HeartCycle project
2008-03-15 11:26:00 The most visible use of Wearable Electronic technologies is in consumer products like clothing and bags. The value here is convenience, adding individuality or giving interactive decoration options. But the potential of Wearable Electronic technologies go far beyond the fashion market. Take for example the health care and medical sector. Nobody likes to get sick or ... More About: Health , Articles , Health Care , Project
RHYTHM iPod Jacket
2008-03-14 13:44:00 During our restless search for new Interactive Clothing we found another iPod enabled outdoor jacket with textile controls, the RHYTM iPod jacket for men. You might say ‘a bit late for a snowboarding jacket’ and I agree to this. We are spending most of our blogging time searching on the Internet for new products out of ... More About: Ipod , Jacket , Rhythm
Reppo II - the boombox backpack
2008-03-13 12:52:00 Industrial design student Joonas Saaranen added his view on the 21st Century boom box by creating the Reppo II backpack with a pair of full-range speakers and an amplifier. Unlike the growing number of sound backpacks we have covered so far, the Reppo II is a urban hardshell backpack with conventional speakers as compared to the ... More About: Backpack , Sound , Boombox
Fun, sexy Solar bag from Solarc
2008-03-12 09:59:00 SOLARC a German company developing, producing and selling high-quality, low power photovoltaic devices is fully in line with our 2008 expectation: the year of Solar fashion. Being environmental conscious has never been more fun, trendy and good looking. SOLARC’s new solar bag has been developed in cooperation with Artbag24, another Germany based company that makes hip ... More About: Fashion , Bags , Sexy
Retro Fashion - Burton Amp Pack for the retro iPod
2008-03-11 10:40:00 Retro Fashion in Wearable Electronic is something new as Wearable Electronic is not that long around but I think the Burton Amp Pack deserves the label ‘retro fashion’. The Amp Pack was the first backpack with integrated textile iPod controls ever launched in the market (in Feb 2006) . That was before we started talk2myShirt! Since ... More About: Ipod , Backpack , Retro
Wake up delighted with the glo Pillow
2008-03-10 12:56:00 Would you like being waked up by light coming out of the pillow, gently increasing it’s light intensity simulating the natural sunrise? If you are tired being hit by an alarm clock that gives off a shocking noise you might want to swap your alarm clock with the glo Pillow . The glo Pillow is the brain child ... More About: Wake , Wake up
perCushion - the pillow to make phone calls
2008-03-09 12:02:00 Viennese design label URBAN TOOL is presenting again during this years CeBIT in Germany the innovative pillow that connects with the cell phone wirelessly via Bluetooth and enables you to pick up the call while relaxing on the soft and ergonomic cushion. Almost a year ago the perCushion made it’s first appearance at the CeBIT in ... More About: Phone , Calls , Pillow , Make , Phone Calls
Bargain hunting: O?Neill Ent and CommEnt Jackets
2008-03-07 02:34:00 Winter season is almost over but it’s the time you can pick up great bargains. One of such pick-up opportunity are the O’Neill h4 Wearable Electronic jackets. O’Neill launched the most advanced Wearable Electronic range for the Fall/Winter season 2007/08 with the h4 collection of Entertainment and Communication Entertainment Jacket s. The Ent. Jacket is specifically made for ... More About: Clothing , Jackets , Bargain , Comment
Reware ProFolio - Solar power bag for business
2008-03-05 13:19:00 Reware made a big impression in the solar bag market last June with the introduction of the Beach Tote, an outstanding practical and stylish beach tote with solar charging function. This year, Reware is giving the solar power to the business people that can only dream from being on the beach right now. The ProFolio is ... More About: Business , Power , Solar Power , Bags , Solar
High-Tech Craft: Why Sewing and Knitting still matter
2008-03-04 16:45:00 Why Sewing and Knitting still matter is the topic of a high profile panel discussion which is part of the SXSW Interactive Festival on Saturday, March 9th from 3:30 - 4:30pm in Austin’s Convention Center. Traditional crafts such as knitting and sewing are surging in popularity thanks to the growing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement. But living in ... More About: High Tech , Tech , Matter , Craft
Designing hybrid wearables - the Cat Bag / Cuddle Bag
2008-03-02 22:11:00 Last month’s workshop ‘Designing Hybrid wearables‘ at Mediamatic Amsterdam assembled a highly creative international team that came up with a unique concept for a bag using the Lilypad Arduino, Leah Buchely’s fantastic DIY e-textile system. The Cat Bag / Cuddle Bag made by Anouk Wipprecht, David Morgan (both Netherlands), Nick Lesley (New York) & Hans Gunter ... More About: Concept Design
Electronic Tattoo and the Power of the Human Touch
2008-03-01 16:09:00 talk2myShirt is always looking ahead to check what might be the next big thing after Wearable Electronic . One emerging trend might be, after technology has conquered our clothing, to bring technology under the skin according to recent works from researchers and other forward thinking folks. I have to admit this sounds a bit frightening especially for ... More About: Power , Tattoo , Human , Touch
Hussein Chalayan Haute Tech Fall Winter 08/09
2008-02-29 14:50:00 Hussein Chalayan is the favorite designer of talk2myShirt as you can see on the extensive coverage we have done of his exiting creations on the Wearable Electronic side of his collections. Chalayan is very consistent in proving again and again his love and artistic virtuosity in fusing high fashion with high technology. I was already ... More About: Winter , Tech , Fall
Day and Night solar power
2008-02-28 06:26:00 Researchers at INL (Idaho National Laboratory), along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero from the University of Missouri, are developing a way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has ... More About: Power , Solar Power , Solar , Night
QIO Systems and Cotswold Industries team up for a hot 2008 Wearable Electro
2008-02-26 14:43:00 2008 is getting a hot year for Wearable Electro nics, not only because Solar bags are a hot trend, not only because we have predicted this in our 2008 New Years forecast and the many other recent announcements made in the first few weeks of 2008 but because todays news might be dynamite with the potential ... More About: Industries , Team , Systems , 2008
O?Neill NavJacket video
More articles from this author:2008-02-25 09:15:00 I found a video clip on YouTube about the NavJacket O’Neill announced in December last year which shows how this display on the jacket sleeve will work. If O’Neill is pulling this out of their sleeve later this year and offers the NavJacket for sale it might be one of the most expensive jackets but considering ... More About: Video 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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