Archive for April, 2009
Illuminated, organic dress
Canadian textile artist Marisa Ranalli created an amazing dress resembling deep sea jellyfish fashion with the use of e-textile materials like LilyPad Arduinos, LEDs and nitinol wire (an alloy that changes shape when electricity is applied) to add organic movements and illumination to the dress.
Marisa gets her inspirations from her fascination of the inside, the [...]
Wearable Electronic science – printed power
Wearable power, a highly researched topic for wearable electronics and many other application field got another faced: supercapacitors made up of a gel electrolyte sandwiched between two carbon-nanotube electrodes, could be created by using existing ink-jet printing methods.
Capacitors and batteries both store electrical energy with the difference that capacitors provide rapid bursts of power discharge [...]
Workshop – Weaving Conductive Cloth
Most e-Textile projects as well as commercially available wearable electronic products use sewing as method to add electronic functions into fabrics.
Lynne Bruning, a pioneer in ‘electronic weaving’ shows another option how to electrify our future clothing by using weaving technologies to integrate (vs adding) electrically conductive infrastructure and electrical components during textile fabrication.
Weaving with electronic [...]
Get the sound outdoors – BoomPak from Dell
Need to cheer up a bit the last leg of this school year? How about the Targus SonicPak from Dell?
Dell is offering this cool looking BoomPak featuring a padded compartment for protection of not only Dell laptops but will also fit for MacBooks of up to 15.4″.
The sound part is integrated into the front panel [...]
DIY – Goodnight Pillow
We have posted many times about commercially available pillows with integrated sound systems to help people falling asleep by relaxing, soothing tunes.
Instructables user opcp took things in her own hands to ’save her marriage’ as she writes in her project introduction, as her husband belongs to the part of people who need absolute quietness to [...]
SWITCH (me on) hoodies from Killa
Interactive Fashion specialist Killa is holding up with our informed forecast last October to launch a firework of cool and gorgeous looking interactive apparel in 2009.
The latest collection we got work off – and some first photos – is called ‘SWITCH‘ making it extremely chick to switch your iPod/iPhone or other personal device this summer.
The [...]
Fibretronic connects fashion with Apple Inc
Great news for owner of interactive clothing and bags fitted with the Fibretronic CONNECTED-wear system. A brand new module is on it’s way to the stores promising great value for a few bucks.
The new IPLX module connects via the headphone connector to the iPod and iPhone and not via the dock connector.
To our knowledge, this [...]
Interactive, Talking Quilt
The ‘Talking Quilt‘, a co-creation between Fiona Carswell, designer of the shockingly-creative ‘Smoking Jacket‘, Alice Tseng-Planas, Kate Hartman, Kati London, Megan MacMurray and Nanna Halinen was developed for speech and learning sessions with a non-verbal, mobility-challenged young girl.
But this concept could be used to entertain kids or ‘grown-ups’ alike. Imagine this: you record on different [...]
Wearable Electronic science – Nanofication of textiles
At times, nano-whatever seems to solve all problems the world is suffering from. Nano has the sound of a ‘magic spell’ on it.
No wonder that ‘nanofication’ of textiles was one of the first areas nano technology found early commercial applications. One of the most prominent nano-textile applications is the impregnation (coating) of fibers and textiles [...]
Bare conductive – electrifying the body
Conductive body paint could enable us to interact with our continuously shrinking electronic devices not only via clothing but directly via our skin.
At least this is the vision of the creator of ‘Bare Conductive‘: Becky Pilditch, Matt Johnson, Isabel Lizardi and Bibi Nelson, from the Industrial Design Engineering department at the Royal Collage of Art.
The [...]
