Archive for April, 2008
Smart Fabrics 2008
For the 4th year running Intertech Pira is organizing the Smart Fabrics conference between May 5-7 in Charleston, South Carolina, US.
Intertech Pira’s Smart Fabric conference is the most significant event of the year for the Wearable Electronic community and business.
A long list of high profile speaker from leading Wearable Electronic companies and pioneers of wearable [...]
Italian solar fashion from Ennio Capasa
The magic or practicality of renewable energy provided by sun light and transforming it into electrical energy via solar cells has attracted Italian fashion designer Ennio Capasa from CoSTUME NATIONAL to create a range of high end - high tech Solar Handbags combining fashion, functionality and technology wrapped in Italian design.
Fine strips of mini-solar panels [...]
Piezing gives the Power Dress a new meaning
In the business world, Power-Dress means getting a ‘professional looking’ outfit, not to catchy, not to low profile. Your outfit should show you are in charge.
In Wearable Electronic, Power-Dress has a different meaning, it actually generates power which in turn can be used to power Blackberries, iPhones and so forth. Point in case: Amanda Parkes’ [...]
Haute Tech Fashion Jeans
The recently published ‘Keyboard Jeans‘ by designer Erik De Nijs on Yanko Design is adding a new twist to the Interactive Fashion trend which is slowly but steady growing.
Sure, the ‘Keyboard Jeans’ are easily labeled as ‘Geeky’ and ‘Nerdy’ pushing form far beyond function but is this not the case with many Haute Couture designs [...]
Solar Light cap gives shade during the day and light at night
My first reaction seeing the 2CLight Solar Light cap was: oh no, again a funny cap with an add-on like a fan but looking a bit closer how the cap works I must say: the 2CLight Solar Light cap is a unique and useful product after all.
The concept is simple but brilliant: a flexible solar [...]
Bellysonic - the iPod for unborn Babies
If you wonder what I am talking about today - keep on reading. Bellysonic® is a soft speaker device that enables ’soon to be moms’ to share their music with the baby in the womb.
The Bellysonic is the perfect way for an expectant mom to participate in their baby’s sensory development, and to enrich their [...]
FATS sneakers show how fit you are
A group of students from the Utrecht School of Arts (NL) explored wearable electronic by adding interactivity to shoes.
The result of this projects is the FATS shoe. FATS stands for ‘Fitness Achievement Technology System‘ and not as you might assume for ‘being fat’.
The idea of the FATS shoe concept is: the shoes reward physical performance [...]
Retro style Wearable BoomBox for your iPod
We had an article on talk2myShirt last October speculating about the revival of the BoomBox trend of the 80s in form of bags and backpacks with speaker and amplifier integrated to hook up to our 21st century small audio players like the iPod.
Sure enough another option is coming to the market via iWorld with a [...]
Pillow with heartbeat - My Beating Heart
The list of interactive pillows is getting longer with the My Beating Heart pillow, a pillow that has its own heart beat.
My Beating Heart is the invention from Yury Gitman and has been available since 2005 but out of whatever reason I only ‘discovered’ it today.
Why should a pillow with it’s own heartbeat be of [...]
Shirt Buttons transformed into a Wearable Remote Control
Remote controls in clothing are around for a couple of years now, offered by different companies but they look almost always the same: five or six function buttons lined up into one row or a circular shape with a ’stick’ in the center.
We haven’t seen much of a design/style creativity for textile or soft keypads [...]