Archive for December, 2008
Sharper Image Sound Bag
Sharper Image made headlines earlier this year by announcing the closure of their stores and reinvent them as a ‘brand’ rather than a retailer, leveraging the familiarity of its name to market products via retail partners.
One of their first products is the SoundBag, a top-of-the-line backpack ‘designed to transform the listening experience for commuters, travelers [...]
Christmas bargain – iPod Power Jacket for women
Finding these days full with financial uncertainties a good bargain is highly welcome especially with the gift giving days ahead of us.
Right in time I found this fabulous looking iPod Power Jacket from JanSport for an even more fabulous low price of just $44.97 available in six colors via this online store.
For this little money [...]
Living textiles – Tornado Dress
Taking the theme of Nebraska storm-chaser Mike Hollingshead to print one of his dynamic Tornado photos on a dress’ fabric, spice it up with e-textile magic and you get a gorgeous looking, interactive Tornado Dress.
Created by subTela studio, the Tornado Dress’ lining has been embroidered with conductive threads and electronic components including super-bright white LEDs. [...]
Explore Playlist iPod Jacket
‘Made for the iPod’ and ‘works with iPhone’, O’Neill’s H-Division Explore Playlist iPod Jacket will be the hit this winter.
Cool cut with stylish look, O’Neill did a bit of a re-design of the otherwise always straight line of iPod controls in interactive jackets.
The O’Neill Explore Playlist has a number of features in it’s construction to [...]
Solar Buddy from Sakku
Heated clothing is a hot item in our coverage at the moment especially helpful in the northern parts of the world but we should not forget another hot item – solar charging bags – useful and practical in the warmer regions of the world and of course useful as well during sunny winter times as [...]
Inspirational DIY e-textile sewing – wearable musical interfaces
This Saturday Zurich / Switzerland will see Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi unfolding their experience in creating interactive clothing during the workshop ‘Sew your own wearable musical interface’ which is part of the event ‘diy* — Art and Technology Festival‘ .
As appetizer for workshop participants Hannah and Mika published the project details of this workshop on their [...]
Heated Glove Liners with a twist
Heating apparel have seen a big boost over the past 2-3 years with every year more companies come up with new solutions to take out the pain felt when outdoors for prolonged time in cold weather.
e-Textile advancements in this field enable clothing designer to integrate heating elements in textiles making them un-feelable and invisible even [...]
Sew your own wearable musical interface
The event ‘diy* — Art and Technology Festival‘ read: ‘do it together, the culture of collaborative art-making’ will host a workshop on Electronic Textiles to develop wearable musical interfaces.
Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi will introduce workshop participants into the magic of e-textiles and the DIY concept of wearable technology.
Starting point for the workshop is to take apart [...]
Fashionable heating jackets from Polartec
Heated clothing is hot in demand this time of the year but so far, heated clothing could not be really classified as fashionable, okay looking but fashion and fit was second to function = keeping warm.
Polartec® is putting the fashion element of heated clothing on an equal level with function.
Their newest line of Polartec® Heat® [...]
Interactive Fashion from Korea
Korean fashion designer Kim Jin Hyung created a line of interactive clothing especially for women. Up to now most of the ready-to-wear interactive fashion designs have been targeted towards the male audience with some styles ‘transformed’ to women’s styles with rather simple cuts.
Kim Jin Hyung designed specifically for women’s body form, aesthetically, sexy with soft [...]
