Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
We hope you enjoyed reading talk2myShirt over the past year, the products we have posted about, the news we reported about and the creative projects presented from visionaries, students and DIY enthusiasts.
We thank you for visiting our blog, for the many tips, contributions and encouragements we received throughout the past year. Your feedback and input [...]
Interactive Bag design – Fabrication Bag
Thermo-chromic ink for screen-printing on textiles combined with conductive yarn on the backside to control the color change of the thermo-chromic print is a technique that paints – literally – dynamic pattern changes onto textiles.
Linda Worbin, doctoral candidate in Textiles and Interaction Design at the Swedish School of Textiles has explored over the past few [...]
Quiksilver Last Mission Jacket – interactive winter fashion
Quiksilver launched their second interactive winter fashion line with the Last Mission Jacket that incorporate Fibretronic’s CONNECTED-wear technology allowing to add any of the growing number of modules to control MP3 players, advanced iPod control or Bluetooth phones.
The Last Mission Jacket comes with the CONNECTED-wear AC2 Volume Controller Module and are compatible with any [...]
DIY – Textile battery holder
Aniomagic, creator of many cute e-textile components seems has taken up my remark in one of my posts about the cute little battery holder and included into their online store for e-textile DIY enthusiasts.
Unlike the other components Aniomagic is selling on their online store, the cute battery holders need to be assembled by yourself but [...]
O’Neill Highway 1 iPod Backpack
O’Neill’s H-Division products for the 2008/09 season have been designed to incorporate your iPod into their design.
The Highway 1 iPod Backpack is a cool looking, rugged backpack that will easily carry of the essentials you need to have with you when you’re crossing the snow fields or just catching the bus to University.
With a padded [...]
Communication Apparel
New York based interaction designer Alis Cambol uses technology enhanced clothing for non-verbal communication habits simulating communication forms used by animals.
Her thesis work at Parson’s, called the Communication Apparel explores the possibilities of communicating with and through clothing. We do use clothing for a very long time to make non-vebal communication, be it via the [...]
iGlove technology – PlayPoint
Keeping warm fingers while outdoors during the frosty winter days requires often to wear gloves. But old fashion gloves turn out to be a problem for gadget welding folks: any and every touch surface operated device like the iPod Touch or the iPhone to name the most prominent ones can not be operated with gloved [...]
Timeless Solar power – Fusion Canvas Messenger Bag
Eclipse Solar Gear recently spiced up their solar bag collection with the Fusion Canvas Messenger Bag featuring a light-weight, flexible, integrated solar charging module in the front flab of the bag.
Using a common 12V automotive charging adapter (car cigarette lighter) allows the connection and charging of many different brands of personal gadgets which have this [...]
Interactive maternity clothing – Kickbee
Expectant father Corey Menscher attracted quite some interest with his recently project called Kickbee to connect to his unborn baby during the pregnancy of his wife.
The Kickbee is a wearable device made of a stretchable band and embedded electronics and sensors. Piezo sensors are attached directly to the band, and transmit small but detectable voltages [...]
DIY – Weaving circuits with LEDs
Instructables member Lynne Bruning has published quite a nice selection of inspiring e-textile projects providing a source of techniques for aspiring interactive fashion designer.
Weaving circuits with LEDs is another example of her creative skills showing a way how to use weaving technique and feeding e-textile LEDs into the weave to create a very reliable fixation [...]
