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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
