Archive for September, 2008
Flexible Led Curtain
Beijing based Huasun Optoelectronic Science Co. selling a ‘made to order’ Flexible Led Curtain which looks and acts like a textile display.
Hanging on a wall or dividing a room this Flexible Led Curtain gives the amazing effect of a soft, drapable curtain which doubles as high resolution display.
This display can be folded, curved, pend and [...]
PrimaVolta and PrimoVolta heated gloves for she and him
Keeping your finger warm while outdoors in sub-zero temperatures has never been as easy as it is now. Heated gloves are coming to the market in rapid succession lately ranging from simple products where the heat is regulated manually up to the latest breed of heated gloves using the advanced Aevex® Intelligent Heat™ technology.
Outdoor Research [...]
DIY e-textiles - Knit touchpad
Plusea (Hannah Perner-Wilson) added a new e-textile component to her DIY wearable electronic component portfolio, a Knit Touchpad.
The idea of the Knit Touchpad is to replicate a textile based input similar as the one we use on our notebooks. The advantage of a textile touchpad is: it can be part of a garment or [...]
Drum T-Shirt
We just covered some new interactive T-Shirts but there is ‘one more thing’: the Drum T-Shirt is pushing the limits of interactive clothing into new a new dimension.
ThinkGeek has proven in the past to think geek out-of-the-box when it comes to funky, innovative T-Shirts.
The latest T-Shirt invention, the Electronic Drum Kit Shirt, transforms the chest [...]
Smart, Heated Glove - Red Savina from Mountain Hardware
The Red Savina is a heated glove is smart and keeps your fingers warm in the month to come.
Smart because it comes with a system that reacts to the temperature of the hand and maintains a warm and comfortable climate inside the gloves.
Whenever the temperature inside the gloves falls below a certain preset level, the [...]
Interactive T-Shirts
T-Shirts with EL (Electroluminescent) displays have come a long way. What started out as novel idea with only very few variations to choose from has evolved into a colorful and variation rich segment.
There are millions of different designs available to be used to send specific message of the wearer out to the world. The drawback [...]
Radiation detecting bracelet
Self-proclaimed engineer, designer and artist Cati Vaucelle created a variant of a wearable Electromagnetic Field Detector in the form of a bracelet.
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) detectors are certainly not new and wearable prototypes have been created throughout the past years like the one mentioned on the Make Blog by Jonah Brucker-Cohen but Cati Vaucelle build the [...]
Piano Gloves - Fingertip keyboard to inspiring musicians
Who does not play songs with the fingers by hitting a table or other objects to drum up the favorite tunes while idle or under pressure.
Hammacher Schlemmer will soon launch gloves that transform your finger drumming into (almost) realistic piano, violin or mandolin sound.
For musicians: each glove can play an entire octave in the key [...]
802.11 Apparel - Wifi Jacket
Jenny Chowdhury a resident researcher focusing on wearable and physical computing at NYU/ITP created a range of 802.11 (WiFi) Apparel by taking out the ‘geeky’ look of other WiFi shirts we have posted about.
Her approach is to combine traditional floral pattern used for a long time to decorate clothing with the technology from the [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY - a Blinking Fashion Statement
A recent article by Charlie Foster for Forbes.com about the wearable electronic DIY movement describes the ‘cross over point’ between the ‘boy’s only’ club of silicon based tinkering and the ‘arts-and-crafts’ community traditionally a more feminine domain.
The marriage of tech and fashion opens the doors for crafters to learn how to solder and tinkerers to [...]
