Archive for April, 2007
Sparkling Keypad for Jackets and Bags
Light attracts more than anything else our attention, gives comfort and literally - lightens up our life.
A new name, although not a newcomer in the Wearable Electronic field, Fitright Industrial, announced in their press release the ‘China Coin‘, a keypad for the integration into clothing or bags, that is illuminated.
We managed to get a first [...]
Video Dress from Hussein Cahalayan
Hussein Cahalayan did again surprise and excite the Wearable Electronic Fashion world again with his latest creation presented during the Milan Design Week last weekend.
The last time, Hussein has surprised the Fashion world was during the summer/spring 2007 show last autumn in Paris with the mechanical dress.
This time, Hussein presented a Video Dress that [...]
Solar Swimsuit from Triumph International
Right in time to kick off the summer season also for Wearable Electronic, Triumph International, the German based world’s leading manufacturer of lingerie, displayed yesterday in their much talked about catwalk show ‘Triumph Fashion Cup’ in Valencia, Spain a Solar Swimsuit.
This innovative Swimsuit has been created in cooperation with Conergy, a German company active in [...]
Wearable Electronic Business news
Eleksen, the company we write quite a bit about here, was very active recently in the business section of many online and offline reports.
Firstly, there was the announcement during the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing last week where Eleksen announced it has been selected as an UMPC ecosystem partner by Intel to deliver a range [...]
Spring 2008 fashion show - Menswear 2.0
The Milano Moda Uomo (Milan Menswear) Spring 2008 is poised to tackle Menswear 2.0 as it elevates fashion into the 21st century.
Menswear 2.0 sounds like geek speak. The internet now has Web 2.0, which means that it has evolved since it burst into the scene during the 1990s and literally changed the way we live [...]
io-Jacket - MP3, mobile-phone and GPS in the Jacket
Just in time before the opportunity is over, we give you a tip how you can be soon the owner of a very special high-tech Jacket.
Lodenfrey, a traditional clothing maker from Germany who entered the high-tech fashion recently, has introduced the io-Jacket during the CEBIT last month. 10 of those Jacket have been produced but [...]
Custom Kicks
One of the most desirable function for clothing is to change the outlook of a shirt, pant or as shown in this concept model, Sport Shoes with a push on a button.
Inventables, a hyper creative company from Chicago that tracks little known materials and technologies and develops concept designs around them, has picked the Cholesteric [...]
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 [...]
Extreme Textiles - Book review
Building up on our post about the Music Textile and to provide information to trigger discussions in the technical sections of our new Forum, we introduce another jewel of our Wearable Electronic book collection: Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance.
This book has a very exceptional value for us. It goes beyond the ‘conventional’ electronic textiles [...]
Technology takes to the catwalk
We certainly do not have to be convinced about the expanding trend of electronic meets fashion.
We also know that there is much money to be made from fashion-conscious technology.
But we enjoy to get our view reconfirmed from ‘independent’ sites as it is the case of an recent article by ENN - electricnews.net
Very often we write [...]
