Archive for May, 2007
Great Father’s Day gift – Cardio Shirt from Numetrex
Give your Dad/husband something much more fashionable and innovative than the usual tie for Father’s Day.
Numetrex™ started selling just in time for the ‘big daddy day’ the Cardio Shirt.
The Cardio Shirt eliminates the need for a separate heart rate monitoring chest strap – and makes you boys and dads great looking. It comes in [...]
Dunhill Avorities Solar Panel Bag
One of the most exclusive Men’s fashion houses, Dunhill, has joined the Wearable Electronic trend by introducing the Avorities™ Solar Panel Bag.
The solar panels on the side of the Avorities™ Solar Panel Bag charge a discreetly-concealed battery, with which the busiest of men can ready his favourite gadgets for immediate use - mobiles, BlackBerries, MP3 [...]
The Reconfigurable Costume from Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley showed us how to make truly textile electronic elements with her e-textile construction kit. Now Leah shows us how this technology can be used to create almost ‘out of this world’ clothing: a reconfigurable costume.
The costume consists of a torso piece and an assortment of sensing appendages that can be snapped to the [...]
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 [...]
Bags + Solar energy + Environment protection = Noon Solar
Summer means (usually) lot of sunshine. Sunshine is energy, energy that can be well used for the ever growing power needs for our ever more powerful gadgets like MP3 player, cell phone, PDA - just to name a few.
Noon Solar is an environmentally conscious company that started a unique line of handbags with integrated solar [...]
NuMetrex new line of Heart Sensing Sportswear
The Wearable Electronic Summer 2007 is getting beautiful and fashionable. After introducing almost 2 years ago the award winning Heart Rate Monitoring Sports Bra, NuMetrex™ is launching a new range of Cardio Shirts for the active Women and Men.
Girls, you never before looked as gorgeous on the running track as with the new Heart Sensing [...]
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 [...]
GlowFur opens any ‘members only’ club door for you
Are illuminated clothing and fashion accessories the next trend? First there are the Fabric Switches in Jackets and accessories but Light Emitting Fabrics seem to be the second most desired object of Wearable Electronics. The GlowFur range created by designer David Lee is a class in itself.
You will either hate it or love it, [...]
Solas Fashion lights up your handbag
Take the style of sophisticated handbags, add the practicality of an interior light to easily locate your essentials in dark and you end up with the perfect blend of chic and function.
Kara Kurcz decided to incorporate a neon light into the frame of her bags. The positive feedback on her creation let to the [...]
You have Come a Long Way, Baby!
VDC Corporation has send out a press release that gives a summary of last weeks Smart Fabrics 2007 Conference in Washington DC. According to VDC’s analyst Tim Shea, the Smart Fabrics Conference has come a long way since the first wearable technology conference in NYC back in 2001.
What started in 2001 with an audience of [...]