Events
Fairytale Fashion Show
Diana Eng’s fabulous project Fairytale Fashion which I highlighted last November is reaching it’s final stage, the Fairytale Fashion Show at Eyebeam on February 24, 7-9pm
Models will show Diana’s Haute Tech creations to the music from hacked video game consoles. A technology enriched fashion show demonstrating the potential of wearable electronics.
The Fairytale Fashion Collection utilizes [...]
Wearable Electronic event of the year – Smart Fabrics
Over the past few years highly interesting events around wearable electronic emerged or established themselves as a yearly focus point for the wearable electronic community/business.
One of the very first wearable electronic events is the Smart Fabrics Conference which first took place in 2005 in Barcelona, Spain. Since that day, Smart Fabrics became THE highlight in [...]
Smart Fabrics 2010 conference
The clock started ticking again for the preparations to the 6th Annual Smart Fabrics 2010 conference which will take place from April 14 – 16 in Miami, Florida.
Organized by IntertechPira, the Smart Fabrics conference is one of the most important events in the wearable electronic calendar as it combines research, innovation, business and industry. No [...]
Smart eTextile Solutions seminar at IFAI 2009
IFAI, the largest trade show in the Americas devoted to technical and specialty fabrics opens the doors between Sept. 23 – 25 in San Diego, CA. Organized as a pre-IFAI event, the Smart eTextile Solutions is taking place on Sept. 22, from 8:30am – 6:30pm
Like in the past few years, IFAI continuous to [...]
Wearable Power design contest by Ardica
Wearable power-module manufacturer Ardica invites the wearable (power) electronic community to the design contest ‘Power to the People‘.
Design professionals, students and all forward thinkers into the hot fashion future are challenged to come up with designs for interactive clothing designed around Ardica’s revolutionary new wearable power technology.
Registration is open now, the guidelines can be found [...]
Final agenda for the Smart Textiles Salon
The hard work of the team organizing the Smart Textiles Salon, trying to get the best of the best to offer in the smart textiles arena, has finalized and released the agenda for this event which will be held later this month (Sept 22) in Ghent, a jointed European workshop organized by the European [...]
DIY eTextile ToolTime at Smart Textile Salon
eTextile enthusiasts who visit the Smart Textile Salon coming September 25th in Ghent, Belgium have the opportunity to participate in a one hour ToolTime session hosted by Mika Satomi.
There will be two sessions each has space for 30 participants. No registration for those workshops is necessary, it will be on a who comes first can [...]
SysTex rewards students’ work in the field of wearable electronic
SysTex, a European project within the Seventh Framework program for research and technological development in the field of e-textiles and wearable electronics in Europe is organizing the SYSTEX STUDENT AWARD.
Eligible for the SYSTEX STUDENT AWARD are thesis’ or projects at European universities, research institutes and companies. The award will be given to the student [...]
Haute Tech at the Smart Textiles Salon in Gent
Hot, Haute Tech news just arrived in our inbox about the Smart Textiles Salon held in Ghent, Belgium on Sept. 25
The most exiting exhibits on show will be the Avantex award winning Klight, designed and developed by Mareike Michel and made in a cooperation between the STELLA project and the Fraunhofer IZM.
During the Smart Textile [...]
Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad
Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) gave us a hint about open places for the second Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino Lilypad which has been added due to the huge demand the first workshop starting on July 25 generated and has been ’sold out’ within short time.
The second [...]
