Archive for June, 2009
Plug-and-Wear: One-stop-shop for eTextile crafters
Plug-and-Wear, a one-stop-shop offering materials and components specifically targeted to eTextile creators has opened it’s shopping doors. Plug-and-Wear is the brain child of Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company with 55+ years [...]
Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier
Another highly interesting company I have visited during the TechTextile is ITL (Intelligent Textiles Limited) a UK based research and development company founded in 2002 specialized in the weaving of complex electrical circuits in conductive fabrics. Starting in the traditional [...]
Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad
Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) gave us a hint about open places for the second Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino Lilypad which has been added due to the huge demand the first [...]
Loopin textile electronics Kit
Our dear friend Riccardo from Inntex visited the Distance Lab open day in Forres, Scotland where he met among the wearable electronic community Elena Corchero from Lost Values who officially launched the long awaited online shop ready to browse between [...]
Babyglow – color changing baby fashion
Color changing chameleon fashion for Babies? Not exactly, color changing clothing yes but not for fashion but to indicate/alert when a baby’s body temperature rises above 98F (37C). I posted about the thermochromatic textiles from Bodyfader, T-Shirts and sweaters that [...]
Interactive clothing made in Sweden
Lena Berglin, researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles and FOV Fabrics AB in Borås loves to combine technology and textiles to create smart, interactive clothing. Her love started at the turn of the millennium when she dismantled two interactive [...]
Interactive Sample Book for e-textile designer
During my visit to the TechTextil I met Hanne-Louise Johannesen, co-founder of Diffus, a Denmark based design company with the mission of ‘diffusing traditional thinking as well as materials in order to create the unforeseen‘ in e-textile applications. Very interesting [...]
