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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
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
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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