Archive for July, 2009
Illuminated flip-flops for the hot summer night parties
A lazy hot summer day search about ‘techno beach gear’ came up with LED Flip-flops, these not very healthy, according to some studies, but beloved beach footwear which can be seen on beaches right now in numbers only second to the sand grains of the beach.
Having posted about on a couple of occasions about illuminated [...]
Wearable Electronic resources from The Netherlands
We are starting a category to introduce various initiatives and information resources around our beloved topic of wearable electronic. Our aim is to offer a starting point for anyone on the lookout for information around smart textiles in his/her neighborhood and beyond.
For our first article in our mini series we selected the ‘Crosslab DIY‘ blog [...]
Sound generating Tuxedo
Inspired by the wave of illuminated clothing used by artists I looked around the creative wearable electronic community for other music related clothing.
My search came up with the Accouphene Tuxedo created by Vincent Leclerc, Joanna Berzowska and the XS labs crew back in 2006. The idea behind the Accouphene Tuxedo is to ‘… create a [...]
NeonString for illuminated fashion design
Triggered by a question from one of our dear readers about possible technologies usable to add light-up elements to clothing designs, I have been looking around if there is anything else next to Photochromic yarns or the glow-in-the-dark yarns which both need light to trigger the color change.
EL-foil technology is another option providing a very [...]
HealthWear – wearable electronic health monitoring
Venturing around research activities into wearable electronic another European funded projects got my attention: the HealthWear project, a collaboration funded by the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission with the aim to deliver a service that provides uninterrupted and ubiquitous monitoring of the health condition of individuals in rehabilitation phase.
Integrating monitoring function such [...]
eTextile DIY – Sensitive Fingertips
It must have been a busy time lately for Instructables member Pulsea aka Hannah Perner-Wilson who was heavily involved into the creation and launch of ‘How to get what you want‘ a excellent resource for eTextile enthusiasts and now she published one of her fabulous textile sensor works on Instructables called: ‘Sensitive Fingertips‘
The ‘Sensitive Fingertips’ [...]
Pluggage, the kinetic and solar power harvesting luggage of tomorrow
Finally there is a way to make good use of all the energy we spend while lugging around our luggage: the Pluggage is using the kinetic energy we spend and sun power to keep your gadgets charged.
The kinetic energy is coming from the wheels converting the rotation via a generator/turbine into electrical energy. The second [...]
eTextiles will make the work saver for our firefighters
Scientist at the Dublin City University develop intelligent clothing for firefighters with sensors woven into the fabric.
Technologies based on the use of e-textiles with wearable sensors will monitor the heart beat, breathing rate, the level of sweat, stress and dehydration as well as the location of the men in the danger zone via GPS.
The firefighters’ [...]
New eTextile DIY site – How to get what you want
Fitting nicely to the start of Open Softwear, a book/guide/project to help getting started with wearable electronic technologies, the launch of ‘How to get what you want‘ a website with the aim to be a comprehensible, accessible and maintainable reference resource for everything around eTextiles and wearable electronic offers information for the more advanced eTextile [...]
Open Softwear – a book about fashionable prototyping
Wearable electronic designer and crafter just got a new, fabulous source of information and inspiration from Open Softwear and it’s authors Tony Olsson, David Gaetano, Jonas Odhner, Samson Wiklund.
Open Softwear is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and other things specifically targeted towards wearable electronic prototyping.
The eBook centeres around [...]
