Archive for August, 2008
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 hand bags.
I think not only European women, it’s a fact of women’s life everywhere. 14 [...]
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 ILLUM Cycling Jacket the gold medal.
Combining safety and fashion, the ILLUM jacket is based on [...]
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 the Fabric Bend Sensor which can be of creative use in many different interactive [...]
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 into clothing or bags can be a style challenge as those solar cells come mostly in [...]
WEEL Technologies enriches Interactive Fashion design
WEEL Technologies, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of Wearable Electronic launched their new website targeted to designers and developers of Fashion, Action Sports, Fitness and Health apparel as well as soft goods (bags).
The wearable electronic modules WEEL Technologies offers is huge and diverse ranging from soft remote controls named China Coin, Amp’d, [...]
Back to Schoolwear – iPod enabled jackets
UK’s high street retailer, Marks and Spencer, launched interactive blazer and winter coats for girls and boys looking for a cool outfit for the coming School year.
The Marks and Spencer 2008 Back to School collection is for the first time offering in the interactive fashion sector girl and boy cuts in different styles. It’s also [...]
Stay cool with a Cool Shirt
Summer heat is reaching maximum levels, at least around our area here and everyone is getting inventive to cool down a bit. To keep me cool during work, I searched if there is something like a cool shirt.
Sure enough there is. I found a company called Cool Shirt® which makes – Cool Shirts, seriously.
During winter [...]
Design for Wearability
Digging around in our library I found an interesting report from the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University on Design for Wearability.
This research has been done ten years ago and is a excellent guide for designers, students and hobbyists who want to find the best place to integrate technical elements into clothing.
The [...]
QIO Systems textile touch pads for fashion designer
QIO Systems which licensed the ElekTex and SOFTswitch technologies is putting back the textile keypad into the interactive fashion world.
A wealth of information is available on QIO System’s new Website showing the solutions QIO is offering to the fashion brands and manufacturers.
Next to the fabric keypad QIO Systems offers a wide range of electronic [...]
Voltage Messenger Bag – product review
The Voltage brand might not be (yet) a well known brand that stand for high quality bags. Me neither and I was curiously looking forward to see it driven by my interest because it has iPod controls, a feature I do not want to miss for more than a year now, having used so far [...]
