Archive for October, 2008
Reebok surface sound bags
Reebok’s backpack and messenger pack with surface sound technology have been a bargain at introduction as one of the cheapest sound bags from an A-brand.
A few month later the price went down almost 50% and if you have every speculated of experiencing a sound system seamless integrated in one of your bags – now it’s [...]
New books about Wearable Electronic
While ordering my copy of Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sewby Alison Lewis which started shipping two days ago I stumbled upon two other upcoming books from Diana Eng due to be launched in the first quarter of 2009.
The first one is TechStyle: Create Wired Wearables and Geeky Gear in cooperation with Natalie [...]
Ardica Power Jacket system
Our coverage around wearable power in the consumer space is usually about heating of gloves and other garments. The wearable power system from Ardica is adding a new dimension/function to heated clothing by using the available power to recharge most of the gadgets everyone is having in the pockets on a day out in the [...]
Animated Cannabis Leaf T-Shirt
Finding T-Shirts with animated decals is not difficult nowadays – partly also thanks to our coverage.
The use of wafer thin EL-foils allows nearly unobtrusive integration of an animated display element that can be treated (washed) like many other T-Shirts (hand washing).
Although some of the designs are very geeky and techno, one of the latest styles [...]
DIY wearable electronic – temperature sensing tapestry
Another cool – or should I say hot – DIY project using e-textile technologies surfaced on Instructables by user craft-tech.
The e-textile materials and components used come for base material Aniomagic which has a nice range of simple to use e-textile components including very smart little sensors for light, temperature and one to be programmed to [...]
iPod Blazer from Park Avenue
Park Avenue, premium formal wear brand from India’s Raymond Apparel is adding to their autumn/winter collection the ‘My Blazer for iPod‘.
The iPod controlling e-textile technology for this high quality and exquisite looking blazer comes from QIO Systems which provides fully textile based interfaces for the interactive apparel market.
The touch pad symbols are sewn under [...]
Solar charging phone pouch – Nokia style
I found a photo on Flickr from blogger Yuhui showing a very elegant looking Nokia concept of a solar charging phone pouch he has seen during his visit to the Nokia Open Lab 2008 event last month.
Although I couldn’t find more specific information about this solar power pouch, I still want to share it as [...]
Interactive table cloth
The Interactive table cloth concept from Clemens Winkler, a German student of art and design at Burg Giebichenstein creates ‘signs of time as traces on a surface’ as he describes the starting point for the Interactive table cloth project.
The magic aspect of the interactive table cloth comes from the unexpected appearance of marks during interaction [...]
The pillow story of Pling Plong
We had our share on interactive pillow coverage like illuminated pillows or sound pillows but the Pling Plong pillow created by Silje Softing sticks out by it’s playful use of ’soft’ low tech to give an twist to the story telling for small children.
The pillow itself tells the bedtime story ‘relieving’ you when absolutely needed [...]
Never miss a phone call with the BluAlert Bracelet
Missing a call on your cell phone is annoying to say the least and can be disastrous in other cases. I don’t know anyone who did not have such unpleasant ‘missed that call’ experiences. The problem usually happens if you keep your phone in a pocket or bag. Not everyone likes to hold a cell [...]
