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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]