Archive for December, 2009
Happy Holidays
Another exiting year comes to an end and we will start our traditional break over the holidays.
We thank you for visiting talk2myShirt, we are grateful for the many tips, contributions and encouragements we received throughout the past year. Your feedback and input is our motivation and reward.
Looking back the past 12 month, it was the [...]
Light-up Bow for a special gift wrapping
Need something special for Christmas, something unique? A bit of DIY and the fabulous instructions from Alison Lewis help you to create a sparkling light-up bow for your gift wrapping during this holiday season.
Alison Lewis, an expert when it comes to demystify technology and use it in unconventional ways as we have seen in one [...]
Climate Dress – CO2 sensing fashion
There is a high probability the Climate Dress was made by a Danish cooperation consisting of design studio Diffus, Danish designer Tine M. Jensen, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.
Sadly, the recently broken closed down climate conference COP15 did not come up with any significant [...]
Textile Prefboard
The eTextile toolbox just got a big addition in form of Plug and Wear’s Textile Prefboard, courtesy of my creative friend Riccardo.
Prefboards are used by electronic wizards to quickly put together a circuit during development and for testing. Needless to say – this is one of the most essential parts in their toolbox.
Riccardo picked up [...]
Life Dress
Life Dress is a highly interesting wearable electronic design by Elizabeth Fuller, student at NYU’s ITP, and exploring wearable technology, web development and user interface.
The dress is formed out of soft silicon tiles containing each an LED. The tiles are electrically and physically connected, creating a dragon skin style dress.
Powered by an Arduino, the dress [...]
DIY – Fabric Display
Fabric Light-Bright is an amazing textile display project from Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One, a first class hacking community in Chicago.
I have never seen before such a simple yet highly unique eTextile design. Simple in it’s functionality as described by Eli but highly expendable and wide open for upgrading to more complex functionality.
What [...]
Soft-shell hoodie controls the iPod from the hips
Sessions added to their technology enabled clothing range a soft-shell hoodie with a Skullcandy custom made soft keypad not as usually placed on the sleeve but on the waist line.
That’s a nice and refreshing twist in placing the soft touch iPod controls to some other place than the sleeve which is used in 99% of [...]
Illuminated by wind – Flare Dress
A unique and playful concept, the Flare Dress lights up flower like LED pattern when the wind hugs you gently or, when there is no wind, you can blow on the flower shapes to make the glow.
Created by Dutch designer Stijn Ossevoort, the Flare Dress is a excellent example how a bit of electronic magic [...]
The magic of illuminated clothing
I have used the word ‘magic’ frequently when introducing illuminated clothing or other illuminated textile objects but after watching Marco Tempest, a new age magician and Techno-illusionist performing his light magic which includes light spots jumping between his hands and jacket, magical illuminated clothing got a new dimension.
While illuminated clothing on stage has found it’s [...]
The North Face Audio Jackets
Despite the cold weather outside, the technology enhanced apparel market is really heating up this winter season. The North Face added to this growing market great looking Audio jackets for women and men.
Beautiful not only the style of the jackets but also the soft touch control on the sleeve in the shape of a diamond. [...]
