Archive for March, 2009
e-textile DIY – tilt sensing bracelet
Hannah Perner-Wilson added a cute little DIY project to her growing Instructables collection: the Fabric & Bead Tilt Sensing Bracelet. What does the bracelet do? It is decorated with six conductive fabric petals and a thread of beads with a [...]
Wearable Electronic Science
Researcher from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium and its associated laboratory at Ghent University presented this week during the Smart Systems Integration Conference in Brussels their newly developed UTCP (ultra-thin chip package) technology which can be seen as [...]
Wearable Audio
Korean based Aza Extremes has a range of Wearable Audio products under the brand ‘Sound walk‘ which are essentially body harness and bags with integrated audio systems bringing the audio to activities where listening via earphones is not advisable for [...]
Blogging In Motion from your Heart
Fashion Designer Diana Eng‘s curiosity and creativity to combine fashion and technology lead to very interesting interactive fashion concepts that transform clothing and bags into life-recorder. The Heartbeat Hoodie, a concept study in 2006 uses a camera to take photographs [...]
Fashionable Audio Bags
We have covered Boombags, the 21st Century Boom-box, many times before. Some brands integrate the audio (speaker) very discreetly for folks who don’t want to stick out from the crowd. Not so Loop NYC with their hip and loud designed [...]
Salomon Surround Pro Jacket
French mountain sport specialist Salomon is another of the top brands combining their expertise in innovative apparel design for skiing, snowboarding and other mountaineering sport activities with today’s digital lifestyle. The Surround Pro Jacket is a gorgeous looking jacket for [...]
e-textile DIY material
Getting e-textile materials is still not a s easy as conventional crafting materials like for example thread. Syuzi Pakhchyan, an expert in smart crafting, has posted on her blog Fashioning Technology a great overview of commercially available, electrically conductive threads [...]
