Archive for August, 2008
Voltaic Generator Solar briefcase – are we there now?
It’s eight month since Voltaic announced the ambitious Generator Bag the should be able to supply even notebooks with enough power from the sun to run smoothly of the grid. The 17 watt of power generation would be the most [...]
DIY – Bicycle Speed Vest
Bicycle gear does get a lot of creative attention from the wearable electronic community as the Bicycle SPEED-VEST is another example to combine visibility with a touch of fun or practicality, depending on how you want to see it. Visibility [...]
Textronics offers heart rate monitor developer’s kit
Textronics, who’s textile sensor is used to make one the most fashionable heart rate sensing sports apparel follows the trend in the wearable electronic industry by offering a developer’s kit for their heart rate textile sensors. The Developer’s Kit contains [...]
Glowing Purse
Alfonso Merry del Vall, Key Portilla-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian Afshar, three young designers based in Spain, created the Glowing Purse because their research showed that European women spend an average of 14,3 hours per year looking for objects in their [...]
Illum – cool Cycling jacket with an illumination twist
Two highly creative design companies, Goose Design (Jenni Arksey) and product design agency PDD (Simon Browning), developed the coolest cycling jacket concept on the planet. If there would be an Olympic medal for sport apparel design, I would give the [...]
DIY – fabric bend sensor
Instructables member Plusea (Hannah Perner-Wilson) keeps on adding very inspirational wearable electronic DIY projects to her portfolio. Last time we have posted about a simple but very effective Flexible Fabric Pressure Sensor. This time we have a short overview of [...]
Smart designed Solar power Clothing
Solar jackets and bags are hot items, they are in line with our increased environmental awareness and can give us the extra hour of talk time or Net surfing we need so baldly for our digital life. Integrating solar cells [...]
