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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
