Archive for January, 2009
DIY – Valentines heart brooch
Becky Stern made acute little DIY project last year combining the LilyPad Arduino and the ‘Open Heart’ DIY project from Jimmie Rogers.
Jimmie developed not only the ‘Open Heart’ hardware, he created an excellent simulation and programming software which allows you to design the heart animation via his online tool in an easy way and [...]
Solar fashion bags at a great discount
Noon’s handmade solar bags radiate elegance and luxury. Carefully selected biodegradable materials, hand dyed with natural substances which are non-toxic using chemical free processes, give Noon’s solar bag collection an elusive tough.
The use of soft, flexible solar panels add little weight to a fabulous highly environmental hugging bag that give that little luxury, that [...]
Joyshirts
2Joy is a German company which designs and sells Joyshirts, cool T-Shirts with EL-decals.
I know, I am addicted to those light-up T-Shirts and always on the lookout for new designs. I don’t like the erratic blinking types although others might just look for such type, and I am looking for fluid patterns not geometrical or [...]
Wearable Electronic options: CONNECTEDwear and PANiQ
Last weeks announcement about PANiQ, the wearable electronic brand from QIO Systems, expanded the choices for consumer on the lookout for interactive apparel.
Fibretronic introduced its wearable electronic brand CONNECTEDwear almost exactly one year earlier, at the begin of 2008, and has been used since then by different brands in great looking apparels and bags.
The CONNECTEDwear [...]
Leah Buechley – democratization of technology
Leah Buechley one of the leading personalities in the DIY wearable electronic field and creator of the unique LilyPad e-textile platform as well as countless DIY instructions to create ’soft electronics’ gave recently a talk outlining her new task at MIT where she is heading the High-Low Tech Group.
Expanding on her great work in the [...]
Cool iPod ready jacket from Kolon Sport
Kolon Sport is a Korean based company recognized for their high performance, high-tech outerwear which helps explorers to pioneer the untouched corners of nature in style.
By introducing the ‘Smart Series‘ jacket Kolon Sport is challenging the interactive fashion world with a high performance and high-tech fashion product for the coming winter season.
Fusing innovation and [...]
Wearable Electronics – The Next Big Break-through for Outdoor Apparel?
One of the biggest Outdoor / Snow Sports fashion trade shows the ‘SIA 09‘ will open it’s doors on Jan. 27 and running until Jan 30 in Las Vegas.
SIA is a giant annual biz conference for the snow industry where the big and innovative snow companies reveal their new gear to be released the following [...]
DIY wearable electronic – Sonar garment for the visually impaired
This weeks wearable electronic DIY project comes again from Lynne Bruning and is the best ever I have seen in the e-textile domain – just fabulous.
The story of her project, the ‘Sonar Garment‘: assisting visually impaired people by navigating through the world and alerting them when an object stands in their way.
The alerting is done [...]
The North Face eTip Glove
The Wall Street Journal picked up in a recent review by Willa Plank the growing need of high-tech gloves capable to allow the operation of hand held touchscreen devices without having to take off the gloves each time an adjustment or phone call is made.
Among the products reviewed (we had some covered on talk2myShirt last [...]
QIO Systems launches PANiQ, the first wearable consumer electronic brand
QIO Systems, one of the leader in wearable electronic, announced the launch of its PANiQ wearable electronics system making PANiQ the world’s first wearable consumer electronics brand.
‘We are building the next generation of wearable electronics and interactive fashion at QIO Systems,’ says QIO Systems Co-founder and President, John Collins.
While QIO and PANiQ work closely [...]
