Archive for June, 2009
Spin on the Waltz – Interactive clothing conquers the ball room
During my travel to Austria, Vienna, I discovered a Viennese inspired wearable electronic project from NYC based Ambreen Hussain a Masters graduate in Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School for Design. Her project the ‘Spin on the Waltz‘ or [...]
Wearable Electronic summer-camp for assistive clothing
To promote the early involvement of students into the multifunctional field of wearable electronic the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Computing is hosting this summer an intelligent clothing workshop for children with an emphasis on assistive wearable technology. Last [...]
Soft Technology: Fiber-optic LED placemat
Sylvania a online store dedicated to innovative LED and other lighting technologies for interior decoration offers a e-textile like light innovation in form of the ‘Lighted Placemat‘. The ‘Lighted Placemat’ uses bright, white LEDs which run off an easy to [...]
The Digital world at your fingertips
Plusea aka Hannah Perner-Wilson is one of the most active wearable technologists judging on the amount of her DIY instructions especially around textile sensors and interactive clothing for performing artists. Her most recent creation posted on YouTube is the ‘Sensitive [...]
e-Textile beginners guide: How to Sew with Conductive Thread with Diana Eng
Threadbanger, a network for people who love DIY, recreate, refashion and craft, posted a video and Instructables showing Fashion Nerd Diana Eng teaching the basics of ‘How to Sew with Conductive Thread‘ on the project ‘Robot and Friend’ from her [...]
Wearable Electronic workshop: electro-clothing
Nadya Peek, creator of the Caché dress and researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge is heading a series of workshops about wearable technology at Mediamatic. Participants will be working on their own garments, to make it beep when [...]
Solar power pure
I spend a lot of time outside with plenty of sinshine during my travel across Europe while my solar bag is doing a nice job in sucking the sun power to give me the ‘extra mile’ on battery power for [...]
