Archive for May, 2008
Hood.e – a wearable sound hoodie
BoomBoxes are something from the distant past (80s), BoomBags start to emerge in the market recently. BoomJackets or in this case a Hoodie give the ‘Boom’ a new twist of listening to music without blocking the ears completely to stay [...]
Verb for Shoe – smart, interactive footwear
Footwear is getting another upgrade by offering multi dimensional interactivity to shoes for comfort and socializing in the real as well as the virtual world. VectraSense Technologies, a spin-off company from MIT ‘the mother of Wearable Electronic’, launched the smartest [...]
Handwear – the interactive glove
We have seen gloves that control the iPod, that keep the fingers cozy warm in winter and that make phone calls. The next generation of gloves will have many more sensors integrated to control multiple wearable devices by lifting different [...]
Give your feet the attention they deserve
We have seen some hi-tech shoes lately so lets round of this week with another ‘technology meets shoe’ product, Alina Designs‘ LED lighted Dress Shoes. For women, shoes like handbags are something you can never have enough. They are bought [...]
Portable Light – Wearable Electronic for the Other 90%
I am ‘borrowing’ part of my headline from an initiative of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City which run last year an exhibition called: ‘Design for the other 90%‘. This exhibition touched on the fact that most cutting [...]
Wi-Fi sniffing sneakers
We have seen T-Shirts that sniff out Wi-Fi signals and show them on the chest. Although this might be too much geek for some it does have appeal to others (I may count myself to the ‘others’ category). There is [...]
