Archive for November, 2006

The 5 coolest iPod Backpacks for Christmas

To help you select the absolute coolest gift for this years Christmas for the iPod boy/girl in your family, we have compiled a short list of the 5 coolest iPod enabled Backpacks in the market.

Our winner is: Nike’s C.O.R.E. Audio Bag
It’s not only looking fantastic, it comes in just the right colors for EVERYONE thanks [...]


Textile electronic

The current research indicates that wearable electronics will go much further than creating ‘just’ very small put still conventional electronic devices. Such small devices will not only be embedded on textile substrates, but the electronic device or system could become the fabric itself.
Electronic textiles will allow the design and production of a new generation of [...]


Fabric Keyboard

Christmas is coming soon - here is a great tip for a futuristic gift for the busy, highly mobile, always connected trend setter: the Wireless Fabric Keypad for BlackBerry, Pocket PC and Smart phones from Eleksen.
The unique, cutting-edge technology keypad is made of ElekTex Smart Fabric.
It can be rolled up to take with you anywhere! [...]


iBlaze - Backpack for iPod

A young and highly specialized company called Simpak has a range of Wearable Electronic based Backpacks in their program.
The idea behind the Simpak collection is to create a bag that will suit all kind of different lifestyles.
Through its combinations of colors and shapes, the look can change from classic into funky and from feminine to [...]


Interactive Biker Jacket

The German Motorbike accessories maker ShadowTS™ has a next generation Biker Jacket in the pipeline called: Cool Interactive Wear™.
Electronics and high tech textiles are integrated in this product, opening a wide range of multi-functional possibilities to the biker he or she could only dream of until now.
The Jacket integrates functions like mobile communication via Bluetooth [...]


Nike’s C.O.R.E. Audio in rainbow colors

Who doesn’t like to give a personal touch to her/his outfit? We all add and change our clothing, mobile phones, iPods and even our cars to express our personality.
Nike understands this very well and offered for a long time the personalization option for their sport shoes and Backpacks.
With the latest addition to this personalization, Nike [...]


Fight the cold weather with WarmX

The products from the German company WarmX get a warm welcome at this time of the year - late autumn and winter.
WarmX has introduced its line of electrically heated clothing, which promises to keep you warm in the great, cold outdoors.
It’s perfect for all outdoor sport activities but also in the professional, working environment where [...]


Sparkling Mini-Top

Just the right product for this time of the year. The days are getting shorter and the darkness is taking over the longer part of the days.
Add some sparkle to your life with this Luminex Mini-Top. We posted already earlier about the Luminex technology, the exiting way this Italian company is bringing active colors in [...]


Concept design: TeamAwear

TeamAwear is a very interesting research project of Mitchell Page, a student at The University of Sydney.
Mitchell developed the Team Sports Awareness Wearable Display or TeamAwear as he calls it to ‘actively enhance the awareness and understanding of a team sport for its stakeholders, including athletes, referees, coaches and spectators, without negatively disturbing its game-play.’
He [...]


‘Singing’ Backpack

A ultra-cool backpack from Skullcandy, a company that has a range of Wearable Electronic technology enabled Backpacks in their mobile entertainment product line.
Plug your mobile phone and MP3 player (any model will work) into the Skullcandy LINK Backpack, and you are ready to play your favorite tunes through the speakers embedded in the upper straps [...]