Archive for January, 2009
Wearable Technologies Conference at ISPO Winter 09
For the third time the Wearable Technologies Conference 2009 as part of the ISPO Winter 09 will take place on February 2nd in Munich, Germany. The focus of this years WT conference will be on Monitoring in Fitness, Sports and [...]
Interactive Haute-Tech fashion
New York City-based interaction designer and teacher Younghui Kim created the ‘Stir-It-On!‘ skirt, an interactive skirt hat reacts to any close encounter on the surface of the skirt such as bumping or touching. Younghui got the inspiration for the ‘Stir [...]
CONNECTEDwear interactive fashion
Fibretronic introduced last year the CONNECTEDwear system that allows consumer to mix and match their interactive clothing with any and every function needed. This system together with ‘CONNECTEDwear ready’ clothing makes the reuse of the electronic part of interactive clothing [...]
Stay warm and electro-smog free with the mediaVEST
Baybox, a German company is working on the mediaVEST which should make life easier and safer for the gadget wielding reporter and bloggers during harsh outdoor conditions. A couple of considerations go into the design of the mediaVEST: addressing the [...]
Electric Light Shoe – Onitsuka Tiger Sunotore 72
The magic of light entered again our coverage, this time in form of an incredible looking sneaker, the Onitsuka Tiger Sunotore 72. Japan’s Onitsuka Tiger has been around since 1949 and is specialized in the manufacturing of sports shoes using [...]
DIY – remote controls with a soft touch
The background story of the first e-textile DIY project the ‘Senior Remote‘ is as lovely as the project itself of transforming a hard plastic TV remote control into a cute soft remote control. Intructables user ‘unknownuser2007‘ wanted to make life [...]
Innovations in Textiles 2009
Right after the Smart Fabrics Conference in Rome another highly interesting event around smart textiles takes place on March 18 and 19 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. Titled the ‘Innovations in Textiles 2009: Smart, nano and technical [...]
