Archive for January, 2010
iPhone chat with your unborn baby
Babies in our digital age grow up – literally – with technology even before they actually make their first appearance in our world. Babies still developing inside the womb use twitter to tell the follower-ship when it made another kick [...]
Conductive Energy Textiles
Scientists at Stanford University, CA join the race for wearable power by developing ink from single-walled carbon nanotubes. According to the scientists, everyday textiles like Cotton or Polyester fabrics can be electrified with an extremely simple “dipping and drying” process [...]
Wearable Electronic event of the year – Smart Fabrics
Over the past few years highly interesting events around wearable electronic emerged or established themselves as a yearly focus point for the wearable electronic community/business. One of the very first wearable electronic events is the Smart Fabrics Conference which first [...]
See u in my tee – Social networking T-Shirt
Portuguese Digital Arts student Inês Petiz envisions T-Shirt’s that exchange part of our identity with others having a smart T-Shirt as well. Sounds like MySpace or FaceBook for clothing as we exchange quite a bit of our identity on such [...]
Breathless corset
Air pollution is one of the headaches that comes with our lifestyle where almost everyone has a car which clog up the air in our cities. At days the pollution is getting so bag it almost suffocates us. A radical [...]
Power design for eTextiles
From a clothing designer point of view, the focus is on style and aesthetics. From an electronic engineer point of view, the power efficient circuit design is one of the keys between being a master or mediocre in this profession. [...]
Textile iPod controls going mainstream
While the market of controlling an iPod or iPhone via clothing is spearheaded and dominated by companies like QIO Systems with their PANiQ controller, Fibretronic with CONNECTEDwear and Skullcandy with the AMP’D system it seems the time is near where [...]
