Archive for July, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Metallica M4 Jacket with Speakers and iPhone connection
Metallica, the biggest selling heavy metal band in the world is the latest example of how music artist’s embrace wearable technologies joining the likes of Madonna, Bono, Kanye West or OK GO to name a few. A partnership between Metallica [...]
e_Static Shadows – textile display visualizes electro static
‘e-Static Shadows‘ is a research project by designer Dr. Zane Berzina and architect Jackson Tan which creatively explores the speculative and poetic potential of static electricity found in our everyday environments, surrounding our everyday interactions. The aim of the project [...]
Give your T-Shirt a color charge
Connecting to our article about color changing embroidery thread based on the Thermochromatic principle using bright light for the color change, we found another interesting, color altering embroidery thread based on the glow-in-the-dark technology. Glow-in-the-dark products contain usually phosphors, a [...]
SolarStrap – wearable solar power module
Finland based Suntrica is a young company exploring the possibilities of thin, lightweight solar panels as wearable add-on solution for clothing and bags. An interesting idea as such self-containing add-on module allows to quickly and easily move it from one [...]
