Archive for February, 2008

Kanye West features LED jacket during Grammy Award

Top rapper Kanye West collected four Grammy wins Sunday night during the Grammy Awards in LA. The most striking (for our blog) is the stage outfit Kanye was sporting, a jacket with animated light effects on each side of the [...]


Wearable Power

Wearable Power is a hot topic in the Wearable Electronic field. A recent announcement made by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan puts this topic back into public view. Their concept, a Electricity – generating knee brace [...]


Workshop – Designing Hybrid Wearables

Designing Hybrid Wearables is an action-packed three day workshop organized by Mediamatic, Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Dana Gordon will look at clothes and jewelery and their potential as personal mobile platforms for social interaction. Held between Feb. 19-21, 2008 in Amsterdam, [...]


UV Intensity Bikini

We get into the sun again and have a look to another UV related product from Solestrom. Solestrom’s main product line is swim wear, specifically bikinis and the Solar Tote we have introduced recently is a ‘one-off’ product using their [...]


Valentine ElectroPUFF Lamp Dimmer

Looking for a unique and creative Valentine gift from the Smart Textile department? If your answer is yes keep on reading. International Fashion Machines Valentine ElectroPUFF™ Lamp Dimmer and, for the creative folks, the Valentine ElectroPUFF™ Craft Kit give light [...]


The worlds first communication glove: Swany G-Cell

Glove manufacturer Swany, known worldwide as an innovation leader for high-tech sports gloves and Texsys GmbH, a Research and experimental development company from Germany presented during ispo winter 2008 the next generation of Interactive Fashion in form of the G-CELL™, [...]


Valentine Day – Give from the Heart for the Heart

NuMetrex offers the perfect Valentine gift under the tag line: Give From The Heart For The Heart. Benefit one: NuMetrex will donate $5.00 to the American Heart Association for every red or razzleberry sports bra purchased during the month of [...]