Concept Design
Undercover music
We stay in the textile music area with today’s article introducing ‘Undercover‘ a blanket containing a system of 24 wireless speakers for the ultimate and intimate music experience.
Interaction Designer Dana Gordon loves to combine textiles with technology as her innovative portfolio of projects show.
The ‘Undercover’ music blanket is designed not only to listen to music [...]
Textile Synthesizer
While researching for last weeks Soundie DIY article I found the Textile Synthesizer made by Jeannine Han and Dan Riley at the Swedish School of Textiles, a highly interesting concept that transforms clothing into a MIDI interface.
Jeannine embed touch sensors, similar to the ones used in iPod and other touch screens into the textile. An [...]
Starlight Skirt
Shannon Henry, owner of the Polymath Design Lab transformed a hand-sewn tulle wrap skirt into a star light sparkling evening gown by integrating fiber optics and lights that change color in response to the speed and direction of the wearer’s movement.
At the center of the starlight skirt is a LilyPad which translates the motion sensors [...]
Technology enriched fashion design
Fashion design student Kristi Kuusk, currently studying at USP (University of São Paulo) is lighting up her creations – literally – by adding LED sparkle to a crocheted skirt.
The twist on Kristi’s design: the sparkle comes only to life when the skirt and a ring come together. Her concept of ‘miracles start to happen when [...]
Data logging Shirt
Sport enthusiasts know that sooner or later discover that parts or their body can not cope with their enthusiasm, leading to dislodged joints and painfully strained extremities.
Fortunately, wearable electronic and the inventive mind of Marcus Moche, Alexandra Morgan and David Schmidt, currently students at the Northeastern University College of Engineering, might provide a solution in [...]
AwareFashion visualizes our invisible connections
Richard Etter, Diana Grathwohl and Sigmund Homolya created AwareFashion, clothing that senses and visualizes today’s invisible, digital layer of wireless networks that surround us wherever we are.
AwareFashion’s concept is based on the idea to visualize the digital environment we are living with, which surrounds use. All the radio waves, be it radio or TV broadcast, [...]
NapCap – Haute Tech sleep shawl
Designer Simone Wittmann created the NapCap, a hoodie shawl loaded with technology to create a private, cozy atmosphere while in crowded and noise public places to take a well deserved nap on a train ride or while waiting for a connection flight.
The NapCap concept envisions a long feature list starting with integrated Bluetooth headphones which, [...]
Detectair – Air pollution sensing clothing
One of the most interesting aspect of smart, sensible clothing is the integration of sensors that visualize environmental conditions we cant’s see or smell easily or to visualize such parameters to warn us when they reach health threatening levels.
The Breathless Corset and the Climate Dress both have sensors that detect and indicate high levels of [...]
Game of Life controlled by EKG Hoodie
Conway’s Game of Life has been explored before in wearable electronic by Leah Buechley or Elizabeth Fuller, showing random light pattern on dresses or jackets based on the rules of the Game of Life.
The starting point of the artificial life form comes in these examples from a random number generated by a micro chip.
The ‘Game [...]
Compass Vibro Anklet – North Paw
North Paw is an anklet that tells the wearer which way is North. The anklet holds eight cellphone vibrator motors around the ankle. A control unit containing an electronic compass senses magnetic north and turns on and off the motors.
At any given time only one motor is on and this motor is the closest [...]
