Archive for September, 2009
Golfing in style with technology enabled RLX Bluetooth jacket from Polo Ralph Lauren
Premium lifestyle and fashion brand Polo Ralph Lauren has joined the technology enhanced clothing world with it’s soon to be released RLX Bluetooth jacket for the rainy days on the driving range. Yes, Golfers too have their iPod and cellphone [...]
Sonic Fabric for a musical wardrobe
What better way to demonstrate innovative thinking in sustainability and fashion than to reuse the billions of tapes that became obsolete with the CD and especially the emergence of MP3 players. Instead of dumping the tapes in landfills, artist Alyce [...]
Visionary clothing
We have covered many times the advantage wearable technologies can bring to us and our clothing by using it’s potential for sensor inclusion as a second skin, extending our sensory ability. A resent development by a team of researchers at [...]
Illuminated wrist band for runner
Nathan‘s Human Propulsion Laboratories dedicate themselves and their products for the active sport community offering gear to make cycling, running and the like more enjoyable and save. In the later category, the safety gear, Nathan offers LED Vests (which look [...]
Sticky, Itchy, and Stiff fashion generate wearable power
Generating alternative power on-the-go to keep up with the increasingly sophisticated but insanely power hungry electronic gadgets in our pockets much research and development resources have been devoted to this topic. A highly interesting approach to wearable, on-the-go power generation [...]
Hot Shag – the hottest rug on the planet
I must have found one of the coolest/hottest rugs on the planet made by British textile artist Sophie Hedderwick, the Hot Shag. The Hot Shag shown is woven with berber yarn and thick EL (ElectroLuminescent) wires, painting a golden river [...]
ITcares – smart textile monitoring for patients
Infos about the prototypes on stage during the Smart Textiles Salon keep coming thanks to our friends Lina Rambausek and Anne Schwarz who are busy to organize this event under the supervision of Prof. Lieva Van Langenhove at UGent. Today’s [...]
