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iFashion – Apple hires wearable technology expert
Apple, one of the most innovative companies in modern history with an excellent track record of turning traditional business up-side-down seems to have set their eyes on the next business to transform: Fashion
The resent announcement circling around the Internet of Apple hiring a wearable technology expert in the person of Richard DeVaul could mean more [...]
Disconnected
My apologies to the many readers of talk2myShirt who have given valuable inputs via the ‘HAVE IDEAS?’ contact form over the past 3 month and never received feedback.
Due to my negligence I did not discover a broken link in the mail forwarding I have set up. Everything was fine until we moved talk2myShirt to a [...]
Fibretronic connects fashion with Apple Inc
Great news for owner of interactive clothing and bags fitted with the Fibretronic CONNECTED-wear system. A brand new module is on it’s way to the stores promising great value for a few bucks.
The new IPLX module connects via the headphone connector to the iPod and iPhone and not via the dock connector.
To our knowledge, this [...]
QIO Systems launches PANiQ, the first wearable consumer electronic brand
QIO Systems, one of the leader in wearable electronic, announced the launch of its PANiQ wearable electronics system making PANiQ the world’s first wearable consumer electronics brand.
‘We are building the next generation of wearable electronics and interactive fashion at QIO Systems,’ says QIO Systems Co-founder and President, John Collins.
While QIO and PANiQ work closely [...]
Fibretronic rolls out CONNECTED-wear
Fibretronic, one of the wearable electronic system providers for the apparel and soft goods industry, started to offer their range of CONNECTED-wear™ smart modules that hook up to wearable electronic enabled clothing and bags allowing to extend the clothes functionality beyond being just clothing.
The great news about CONNECTED-wear’s modular system for interactive fashion: for [...]
Dress up with your gadgets
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% [...]
QIO Systems and Cotswold Industries team up for a hot 2008 Wearable Electronic year
2008 is getting a hot year for Wearable Electronics, 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 [...]
Eleksen gets a new home by QIO Systems
A few month ago the future of Eleksen and with it its ElekTex textile sensor technology that has made a huge impact in the Interactive apparel business in 2006/2007 was very uncertain to say the least.
The first re-emergence of Eleksen and its technology was in form of an acquisition of its assets and business by [...]
Kanye West features LED jacket during Grammy Award
Top rapper Kanye West collected four Grammy wins Sunday night during the Grammy Awards in LA.
The most striking (for our blog) is the stage outfit Kanye was sporting, a jacket with animated light effects on each side of the front.
I do love Kanye’s music and I do love the fact that Wearable Electronic is taking [...]
Wearable Electronic manufacturer WEEL Technologies
After the transfer of Eleksen to Peratech, another transfer in the Wearable Electronic space took place to strengthen the design and manufacturing base of interactive fashion: WEEL Technologies has successfully completed a management buy-out of the Wearable Electronics company FITRIGHT Industrial which has designed and manufactured Wearable Electronic components into Apparel, Bag and Accessory products [...]
