Category: Technologies
Pulse Sensor – wearable heart-rate sensor for Arduino
The Pulse Sensor is a plug-and-play ready component that hooks up to the Arduino platform which opens a ton of possibilities to incorporate biometric data into wearable electronic designs thanks to it’s very small form factor. The creator of the [...]
Textile illumination – Delight Cloth
Based on the feedback we receive on talk2myShirt and my personal experience, illuminated textiles, be it for clothing or interior design, never fails to trigger instant, highly emotionally charged reactions from everyone around when seeing textile objects suddenly light up, [...]
Fabric solar panels
Oh well, a lot of people in the northern hemisphere had their share of cold, sun light deprived winter weather but rest assured, the next summer season will come soon and with it plenty of sun light hours per day. [...]
Luminous textile ribbon
We got word from a Taiwanese manufacturer who has developed a textile ribbon using a new, low resistant electrically conductive yarn with LEDs mounted on a ribbon which can be cut to sizes as needed and then connected to a [...]
iLume – soft light modules for garments and bags
Fibretronic launched a new range of high brightness LED products designed for lighting applications in outerwear, bags and other wearable accessories. The lighting range, which Fibretronic is selling under the ‘i-Lume‘ brand, includes light emitting buttons which can be sewn [...]
Push-to-talk T-Shirt
Push-to-talk 2 my Shirt might not be as far away as we have imagined when giving our name to our wearable electronic community site back in 2006. Finnish company Patria Aviation Oy has spent the past one and a half [...]
iCalm – Comfortable, Wearable, Wireless Bio-Sensing
MIT‘s Media Lab is without question one of the hot spots for research and pioneering wearable technologies since it’s very early stage. No wonder that many of the innovative companies in this field are coming directly out of their laboratories. [...]
