Archive for February, 2009
Sense and sensibility of Solar charging bags and clothing
During the past few days, portable solar charging for cell-phones have made the news rounds as a couple of cell-phones with solar panels on one side have been introduced during last weekends MWC (Mobile Wireless Congress) in Spain. While the [...]
Smart Fabrics conference 2009 is around the corner
The 5th Smart Fabrics conference is just around the corner, taking place between March 10-12 at the Holiday Inn Rome West Hotel in Rome, Italy. IntertechPira established with the annual Smart Fabrics conference a strong basis for the wearable electronic [...]
Wearable Friend Finder
New Media students at the University of Maine developed a Wearable Friend Finder that brings the match making, friend(ster) finding out of the internet and onto the streets. In their last semester’s interactive Web development class the students created the [...]
iPod ready Backpack by Wed’ze
Wed’ze has next to the gorgeous looking Ride and Jump snow boarding jacket with integrated iPod controls another top-gear for snowboarders that allows the easy control of the iPod during the action ride. The FR 9 Backpack SBS Audio is [...]
Interactive Fashion collection from Angel Chang
New York-based fashion designer Angel Chang continued her interactive fashion exploration by adding more technology inspired styles to her autumn 2008 collection. After graduation Angel Chang started working as a design assistant at Donna Karan Collection and collaborated in the [...]
DIY – conductive thread
Conductive thread is one of the key elements for e-textile crafting but it seems sometimes difficult for people to get their hands on commercially available conductive thread. This Instructables might be a good starting point to get aspiring e-textile crafters [...]
Chameleon fashion
One of the dreams of many fashionista’s is to change the outfit or at least the color of it without changing clothes. The reason for doing this can be: having a bit of fun by changing, like chameleons, the color [...]
