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 experience in the textile industry.
The aim of Plug-and-Wear is to provide a place where wearable [...]
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 application areas of consumer apparel (eg. wearable music player and phone controllers), healthcare (eg. biomonitoring) and [...]
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 workshop starting on July 25 generated and has been ’sold out’ within short time.
The second [...]
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 various wearable electronic objects and a interesting educational textile electronics kit called ‘Loopin‘ developed by [...]
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 change color from black to white for example. I have a couple of shirts for testing, [...]
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 products, among them an intelligent glove, capable of transmitting communication.
This experience and the following re-assambly of [...]
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 to me is the project of the Interactive Sample Book (ISB) designed by Diffus with support [...]
Cellphone dress
Georgie Davies, BA student at the London College of Fashion made ‘Fashionable electronic’ headlines last week with the ‘Cellphone dress‘, her winning entry to the Sony Ericsson initiative working with the School of Fashion Design and Technology at the London College of Fashion to explore the relationship between technology and fashion.
Sony Ericsson, like many other [...]
Klight – an sparkling, interactive dress
Avantex-Innovation-Award 2009 winner in the category ‘New Fashion’ was ‘Klight‘, a sparkling interactive dress was the highlight during my walk around the TechTextil.
Klight is an interactive dress which translates the body’s movement into light, connecting the body with its surroundings.
To achieve the effect, a new stretchable circuit board technology, developed by Fraunhofer IZM, was integrated [...]
DIY – RF detector wristband
Brian send us his latest wearable DIY project, the ‘RF detector wristband‘.
A simple but interesting project demonstrating how the use of wearable technologies can create helpful ‘hands on’ tools.
The function of the ‘RF detector wristband’ is to visualize the presents of an RF signal indicating a transmitter like a cell-phone or UHF is working or [...]
