Archive for September, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Solar fashion bargain – 15% discount on all Noon Solar bags
Great news for environmental fashionistas: get one of the gorgeous Solar bags from Noon at a 15% discount. From now until the end of September Noon Solar is offering all of their solar bags a 15% discount when using the [...]
Motion Responsive Sportswear
Kerri Wallace, a textile designer from the United Kingdom, has set out to revolutionize fitness and performance apparel by designing responsive textiles with motion sensitive displays. Her research project ‘Motion Responsive Sportswear‘ is using the correlation between heart rate and [...]
Touch screen compatible gloves
An interesting product that does not use e-Textiles or any of the wearable electronic technologies we usually write about but related to the way clothing – in this case gloves – need to adapt to be able to interact with [...]
Burton Heated Dream Jacket to keep the ladies hot
Winter time will never be as cold as it used to be in the past. No, I am not talking about global warming, I am talking about heated clothing. Over the past few years we have seen an increase in [...]
