Archive for November, 2008
Feel the nature - Wearable Forest
Wearable Forest, created by Ryoko Ueoka, Hiroki Kobayashi and Michitaka Hirose from the University of Tokyo, a dress that interacts bio-acoustically with a remote forest.
The dress interacts with the distant wildlife that could be at any place in the world through a wireless link to the internet streaming real time sounds to the dress.
The Wearable [...]
PLAY Music Jackets bring fun and color to the winter
A new, cutting edge range of snow sports clothing for this Autumn/Winter, the PLAY range from UK brand TOG 24 arrived in the stores and is ready for the winter action.
The Play Music ski jacket is a technical outerwear for men and women featuring integrated technology to allow the control of a variety of iPod’s, [...]
Save the planet and money with Solar bags from Noon
Noon is offering a great saving opportunity for environmental conscious fashionistas by giving a 20% discount on their gorgeous looking solar energy harvesting bag and tote collection.
Reducing the carbon footprint even if it is a baby foot (print) can make a big difference. One solar charging bag will not save the planet but if many [...]
Smart Fabrics conference 2009
IntertechPira announced the dates for its 5th Smart Fabrics conference taking place at the Holiday Inn Rome West hotel in Rome on 10 -12 March 2009.
Positioned as a flagship conference in the wearable electronic industry, Smart Fabrics conference visitors can expect again highly interesting presentations from the biggest players in the industry, including Philips Research, [...]
Luxury iPod jacket from UK - Plutonic by Henleys
The stylish Plutonic iPod Jacket by UK retro clothing brand Henleys adds sophisticated style to the interactive clothing segment.
Designed in black pinstripe, the Project Deluxe men’s technical hooded jacket – yeah it’s a awful long, technical sounding name for a classy jacket – has soft touch iPod controls from Fibretronic in the sleeve allowing to [...]
Good and Bad design for illuminated clothing and bags
Integrating illumination / light into clothing or bags become popular judging on the many commercial and concept designs introduced throughout the past year.
Light elements in clothing give an additional style dimension, a more dynamic look to the gem stone and glitter dust we have on our clothing for a long time to add sparkle to [...]
DIY - Soft Circuit Embroidery
Last weekend we pointed you to a simple DIY electronic embroidery project demonstrating how easy it can be to create a cute, unique piece of embroidery with sparkling elements.
This weekend we introduce you to a more advanced electronic embroidery project from Becky Stern using the LilyPad Arduino which allows highly sophisticated interactivity with your embroidery [...]
TapTap - Haptic cyber clothing
Orit Zuckerman created back in 2005 the TapTap scarf, a wearable haptic system that allows nurturing human touch to be recorded, broadcast and played back for emotional therapy.
Unlike the Hug Shirt from CuteCircuit which transmits hugs send over cell-phone networks from far away, the TapTap concept records taps or hugs of your partner or someone [...]
O’Neill Audio apparel 2008/09
O’Neill, leading brand in the wearable electronic sport and outdoor apparel segment has introduced a ‘worlds first’, ready-to-wear active audio fashion line for the autumn/winter season 2008/09.
The new Audio Hooded Top for women and the Audio Hoody Sweat for men come with an integrated audio system. The practicality is obvious: listening to music all day [...]
Carbon Fiber Heated Jacket
Feeling already the cold? Winter is just around the corner so we prepared another hot tip to stay warm while outdoors.
The relatively new material of carbon fibers specially treated to make them electrically conductive with high resistance level and woven to textiles, creating heat generating fabrics allow apparel designer to create slim, invisible integration of [...]
