Category: News
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peratech acquires Eleksen
Peratech Limited acquired the business of Eleksen from Deloittes, the appointed administrator of Eleksen plc and Eleksen Limited. Eleksen went into administration in Oct. 2007 after being unsuccessful in raising additional funding needed to realize their ambitious plans for 2008. [...]
