Archive for June, 2008
Daft Punk with Enlightened Robot suits
Enlighted, the company that lights up many clothing items posted a DIY instruction showing how you can enlighten your clothing as well.
A red robot suit made by Enlighted for Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 tour attracted a huge interest from Draft Punk fans and others who have seen the Alive show. This interest motivated Enlighten [...]
Upcoming book: Switch Craft by Alison Lewis
ALISON LEWIS the producer and host of SWITCH, an online blog that showcases technology as modern, crafty, fun, and fashionable is working on a book called ‘Switch Craft - Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew‘ due to be on sale on October 28, 2008.
Alison has worked as an electronic textile designer at DuPont and [...]
Walking on light - Miloni glow sneakers
Walking on light is getting very popular as yet another of our glow sneaker discoveries, the Miloni glow sneaker offered by Brooklyn based BS-Glow, highlights.
These exclusive sneakers look just great. The whole middle sole is illuminated giving you the feeling of walking on light.
The light can be switched on and off with two illumination effects [...]
Book review: Fashionable Technology
It took some time to finally sit down to give you the view of talk2myShirt on the latest and greatest book about wearable electronic: Sabine Seymour’s ‘Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology’.
It’s a page turner and extensive resource for inspiration in the field of technology meets fashion - or the other [...]
City Pillows from Florence Bost, a living artwork for your home
Florence Bost is the creator of a wide range of highly interesting objects made of a hybrid between fabric and new technologies transforming such ’simple’ items like pillows into an innovative, poetic artwork.
Her lovely range of City Pillows make discrete use of light elements such as LEDs or EL-wires in combination with beautiful design to [...]
DIY - Turn Signal Biking Jacket from Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley published teaser photos of her turn signal jacket a few month ago but no description on how she did it. The wait is over, Leah posted an extensive DIY description on her Website and on Instructables.
As with all other projects Leah has published on her site, everything you need to build your [...]
Amazing littleBits
littleBits is an amazing concept of electronic modules enabling people with little electronic knowledge to create complex electronic systems.
The littleBits concept is a library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Different electronic functions like switches, power modules, USB connector, sensors, LEDs are designed as small as possible to allow easy integration [...]
UltraFuture Fashion show in December 2008
We got notice from UltraFuture about a change in their program concerning the planned Interactive Fashion Show: the new date for this event will be December 10-13, 2008.
UltraFuture is working with CuteCircuit to showcase their latest ideas and designs during the UltraFuture Expo in December in Hong Kong.
UltraFuture Expo aims to bridge East and West, [...]
360 vision - Hard-Wear Jacket from Paul Coudamy
Humans have an almost 180-degree forward-facing field of view where over a range of 140 degree, called of binocular view, we can perceive depth and the rest of the 180 degrees goes to peripheral recognition.
Our back (side) is usually not covered and that’s where the danger usually waits, be it in from of an [...]
Project Walkway – eight girls hack their shoes
Girls of all ages are fascinated by shoes. There can never ever be enough shoes in the closet. Every occasion needs the perfect matching footwear.
What do we get if girls take electronics and upgrade their shoes? – Project Walkway where eight teenage girls learned to mix technology with fashion.
Project Walkway spanned 6 weeks starting in [...]