Sound
Wearable Electronic Science – stretchable, flexible, foldable speaker
One of the big challenges in wearable electronic: speaker which can be fully and seamless integrated into clothing transforming a T-Shirt into a speaker system.
NXT’s surface mount system is so far the closest solution but still it requires some bulky sound engine called ‘exciter’ to transform semi stiff EVA into s sound emitting surface.
A group [...]
Soundtrack T-Shirt becomes reality through the power of the Consumer voice
The Soundtrack 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 [...]
Reppo II – the boombox backpack
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 [...]
Spyder adds sound to the new Groove backpack
NXT is for sound integration into soft goods what Eleksen is for the integration of textile control buttons into all kind of clothing and soft goods.
NXT’s concept of using existing materials and styling elements of bags and backpacks to transform them into a sound radiating speaker is great innovation.
Spyder is launching the Groove backpack [...]
Quiksilver premium bags with NXT sound system and iPod control
Quiksilver has launched a range of backpacks with integrated sound system from NXT and ‘made for iPod‘ label.
The Quiksilver models Day Pack, Surf Pack and Snow Pack feature the finest materials, sophisticated technical construction and embedded technology.
All three models have weatherproof NXT flat panel loudspeakers which are formed from EVA foam. Employing NXT SurfaceSound technology, [...]
Firefox Sound Bag
Our Web-browser of choice is Firefox from Mozilla. It’s by far the most stable, platform independent and expandable Web-browser every created. The iPod is a well known portable audio player and one of our life enhancers during the long hours awake.
Now – where is the Wearable Electronic component coming in? This is not a blog [...]
iMainGo for your iPod on the go
The other day I strolled through one of the shopping malls nearby and came across a range of sound bags, small and large, different styles and colors.
There has to be for sure a market otherwise they would not display them in a first class (and high prized) shopping mall.
Among the selection in the shop, the [...]
The Sophisticase from G-Tech
Another smart product from G-Tech: the Sophisticase Computer Briefcase.
This model has as seen already in other G-Tech products, the NXT flat panel speaker technology integrated into the bag, invisible.
As we said on the computer Sleeve, a very desirable ‘must have’ for the powerful multimedia presenter on the road, away from the fully equipped multimedia meeting [...]
Musical Textile
We are always on the look out for enhanced textiles, textiles with added functionality, in short: Smart Textiles.
The Music Textile created by Maurin Donneaud (Industrial designer) and Vincent Roudaut (Interaction designer) is a highly interesting concept.
The Musical textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by moving his [...]
Cool Gadget – Computer Sleeve with Sound from G-Tech
G-Tech is very active in producing and introducing Wearable Electronic products. They have a huge range of Bags, Backpacks and now a sleek Computer Sleeve with seamless, invisible integrated flat panel speaker from NXT.
The benefit of this integration is very obvious, as we mentioned on the post about the Marks & Spencer computer bag. Especially [...]
