Archive for October, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fibretronic rolls out CONNECTED-wear
Fibretronic, one of the wearable electronic system providers for the apparel and soft goods industry, started to offer their range of CONNECTED-wear™ smart modules that hook up to wearable electronic enabled clothing and bags allowing to extend the clothes functionality [...]
DIY Wearable Electronic – LilyPad E-Sewing and Pro Kit
Sparkfun has bundled two versions of the famous and fabulous Wearable Electronic DIY system around Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino e-textile system for the Do-It-Yourself enthusiasts. You can check out the two LilyPad kits first hand during the Maker Fair which [...]
iPod charging shoes?
Right after the military sponsored Wearable Power prize was announced, Japanese innovation and telecom giant NTT comes up with a (kind of) consumer version of wearable power in form of a power generating shoe. Their power shoe design is able [...]
Wearable Power Prize Competition Winner
The Department of Defense (DoD) found the winner for their $1 million Wearable Power Prize competition. Many interesting ideas and concepts have been submitted ranging from individual inventors to larger corporations. And the winner is: the DuPont/Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) [...]
