Archive for February, 2008
Hussein Chalayan Haute Tech Fall Winter 08/09
Hussein Chalayan is the favorite designer of talk2myShirt as you can see on the extensive coverage we have done of his exiting creations on the Wearable Electronic side of his collections.
Chalayan is very consistent in proving again and again his love and artistic virtuosity in fusing high fashion with high technology.
I was already [...]
Day and Night solar power
Researchers at INL (Idaho National Laboratory), along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero from the University of Missouri, are developing a way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has [...]
QIO Systems and Cotswold Industries team up for a hot 2008 Wearable Electronic year
2008 is getting a hot year for Wearable Electronics, not only because Solar bags are a hot trend, not only because we have predicted this in our 2008 New Years forecast and the many other recent announcements made in the first few weeks of 2008 but because todays news might be dynamite with the potential [...]
O’Neill NavJacket video
I found a video clip on YouTube about the NavJacket O’Neill announced in December last year which shows how this display on the jacket sleeve will work.
If O’Neill is pulling this out of their sleeve later this year and offers the NavJacket for sale it might be one of the most expensive jackets but considering [...]
Textronics gives Smart Textiles and fitness apparel a new dimension
Textronics Inc. the innovator and creator of the NuMetrex fitness apparel collection is giving the term ‘Smart Textiles’ and Heart rate monitoring for training, fitness and health care a complete new meaning.
Textronics has been recently awarded a patent for its textile-based electrode system by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
The patent is for stretchy [...]
Bargain hunting: Spyder Groove Backpack
Spyder’s Groove Backpack is a gorgeous looking pack, sleek yet sophisticated style, one of my favorites from the interactive bag department.
The interactivity is an on-board sound system, the whole front side is a large speaker working on the ‘exciter’ flat-speaker technology from NXT.
This stealth sound system fits perfectly into the Groove’s overall design. The [...]
Eleksen gets a new home by QIO Systems
A few month ago the future of Eleksen and with it its ElekTex textile sensor technology that has made a huge impact in the Interactive apparel business in 2006/2007 was very uncertain to say the least.
The first re-emergence of Eleksen and its technology was in form of an acquisition of its assets and business by [...]
Solar empowered Fashion
Fashion with function comes always to my mind if seeing those flexible solar panels in Bags and sometimes (like yesterday) even in Jackets.
Functional Solar Fashion is certainly the correct description when looking at the Noon Solar bag (on the left) where form and fashion is fused by solar power.
Voltaic (on the right) comes to my [...]
Zegna Solar-JKT spotted in the wild
Zegna announced in June last year the introduction of the Solar-JKT as part of the Zegna Sport range for Spring/summer 2008.
We still have Winter time but Zegna started selling the Solar-JKT in their shops in Hong Kong for around $ 1,050.- Not a bargain but Zegna is all about quality, style and innovation and not [...]
i-XPS SoundBox from Hercules protects your iPod from the elements
In anticipation of a soon approaching summer, our product introduction today is a splash-proof case to protect your iPod while on the pool or beach or everywhere your iPod could get unwanted contact with water.
The i-XPS SoundBox from Hercules is a splash-proof SoundCase that acts as a speaker thanks to the integrated NXT speaker technology.
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