Archive for September, 2009
Dicota BacPac controls iPod and iPhone
Dicota, one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality, exclusive notebook bags unveiled their first technology enabled bag, the Red Dot design award winning BacPac.
This exclusive backpack offers everything one could wish on an urban style bag for all the essentials needed in today’s life: a protective detachable Notebook sleeve with high-class HDF padding (high-density foam) [...]
Emotional T-Shirt
We have seen many versions of EL decal animated T-Shirts but the ThumbsUp! Emoticon T-Shirt is the cutest I have seen so far.
The Emoticon T-Shirt offers four different emoticons you can choose to express your current stage of emotion by lighting up your T-Shirt making sure even in the darkest corners of your life your [...]
FMF Element Ride Jacket – motorcycle jacket connects to iPod
Motorbike fans can now chose to spice up their clothing with soft touch controls on the sleeve to connect to personal electronic devices like iPod, iPhone or other MP3 player or cellphones.
US brand FMF Racing launched the ‘Element Ride Jacket‘ equipped with Fibretronic’s CONNECTEDwear technology and iPod control module.
If you don’t have an iPod or [...]
DIY Louis Vuitton Solar Bag
How about upgrading your Louis Vuitton bag with a solar panel to charge your Louis Vuitton LV888 cellphone in style?
If you are, like Mark Farina did, use a flexible solar panel kit from Voltaic, you have your very own, unique and priceless Louis Voltaic Solar Bag.
We have posted about the solar kit and project site [...]
And the winner of the Smart Textile Salon Student Award 2009 is: Laura Wilson
Today is not only the day wearable electronic experts and enthusiasts meet at the Smart Textile Salon in Ghent, Belgium but also the day where Laura Wilson will present her SysTex Student Award 2009 winning project, the ‘Celestial Hybrid’.
Laura Wilson, currently completing her final year of her degree in Printed Textiles, Fashion and Fibre at [...]
O’Neill NavJAcket for the winner of the Smart Textiles Salon Student award
Let’s give a big hand for O’Neill who is sponsoring a NavJacket for the winner of the Smart Textiles Salon Student award 2009.
The Smart Textiles Salon, jointly organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex will present the student award for the best wearable electronic design project in this years event.
O’Neill, leading brand and innovator [...]
Electrically conductive textile platform
EMPA – an interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development within the ETH Domain will present this Friday at the Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, the ‘Conducting textile platform based on novel e-fibers’.
There are different technologies and processes to create electrical conductive fibers and yarns, some use fine silver wires [...]
Smart glove – texting without keypad
According to a Discovery News article, researches modified a fingerless biker glove by adding 17 electrically sensitive patches over major muscle groups in the hand and lower arm.
The detected muscle movements are then wireless transmitted to a computer which make the data analysis of translating the different changes on the muscles into written words – [...]
High tech boots from Columbia Sportswear – Bugathermo and Snow Hottie
We are a few days away from the official begin of autumn, time to look for clothing and shoes to keep us comfy warm during the cold days to come.
Announcing just in time to make it to the winter outfit shopping list, Columbia Sportswear offers an option to keeping our feet warm with the [...]
Have you already upgraded your jacket to version 2.0?
Finally there is a solution available for everyone who want’s to upgrade his / her favorite piece of clothing to technology enabled Fashion 2.0 to play in sync with the many electronic lifestyle items in our pockets: iPhone or BT cellphone or iPod.
A company called RNK Distributing is marketing a product called the ‘My Sew [...]
