Archive for February, 2007
Rocking Bag for the material girl
Do you remember the pre-iPod and MP3 player time? Do you listen on some occasions to music without earphones? If your answer is yes, then you might be familiar with boom boxes.
They where hip and cool not so long time ago but they are soo yesterday now.
Thanks to the creativity of Lifepod of New York [...]
The Wearable Electronic Wii controller - meet the Fingertip control glove
How cool would it be to snap with your finger to witch on or off your iPod or Computer or many other of the gadgets around you. Or play a cool game on your Wii with this glove! Al least this controller will not smash your TV.
Researchers at Engineered Fibre Structures (EFS), a University of [...]
Musical cycling short - the Vertex MP3 Bib Short
A new addition to the Wearable Electronic product portfolio: the Vertex MP3 Bib Cycling Short.
The new member in our Wearable Electronic family is Pearl Izumi, a company very well known in the cycling community for it’s excellent quality and craftsmanship. Pearl Izumi USA, Inc. has evolved from being a small garment producer in Japan some [...]
Fashioning the Future - Book review
If ‘The New Nomads‘ was our first book review and our first book in our Wearable Electronic books library that has cult status, ‘Fashioning the Future - Tomorrows Wardrobe‘ is the latest and most comprehensive ‘up-to-date’ book about Wearable Electronic and Textile technology innovation.
The author of ‘Fashioning The Future’, Suzanne Lee, is a Senior Research [...]
Double sided Fabric Keyboard from Eleksen
The Wearable Electronic expert Eleksen did it again ….. surprising the world with a twist to their existing fabric keyboard range: the Double Sided USB Keyboard.
This concept, presented by Eleksen during the 3GSM in Barcelona last week has a different set of keys on each side. On the top side is a standard set of [...]
Wearable Electronic shopping guide
We compiled an overview of all the Jackets we have posted over the last few month. This list shows how many different styles are already available in the Wearable Electronic clothing market.
We give you also a price indication. You might find some of those Jackets for a lower price, we just selected randomly a online [...]
Wearable Electronics a facet of (future) life (style)
It’s the destiny and the mission of talk2myShirt to bring Wearable Electronic closer to the consumer but also to give a headsup to the designers as well as to the clothing and electronic industry to achieve our mission.
A Feb. 16 article in the online edition of The Orange County Register, a daily newspaper published in [...]
Hussein Chalayan: fashion’s great innovator
Our article today is inspired from the recent massive coverage of Hussein Chalayan’s transformer dresses in many established fashion Magazines like Vogue, Elle, Style, I-D, to name a few.
One of the features in their March 2007 editions is the coverage of the Spring 2007 trends: futuristic and an odyssey of metallic and science fiction fantasy.
Hussein [...]
DIY Wearable Electronic - Textile Switch
Whatever electrical function we want to integrate in our clothing, it has to have at least one switch, to switch this function on and off.
To make an electrical textile switch is easier than you might think, especially by following the instructions worked out by Leah Buechley.
Based on the idea and DIY instruction from Leah, we [...]
iDope iPod Jacket from Dope+Drakkar
Although the winter season will end soon, we want to introduce you another iPod Fashion product for the cold days.
The company that came to our attention is: DOPE&DRAKKAR which was established in Tokyo, Japan by Eichiro Sakata in 1994. “Dope” is a drug and “Drakkar” is an addict. Eichiro wanted to make clothes that were [...]
