Archive for March, 2010

Wearable plastic electronics

Although our talk2myShirt coverage is very seldom mentioning so called ‘plastic electronics’ this field is highly interesting to wearable electronic as it focuses to move electronic functions from hard surface substrate to flexible, thin-film carrier mediums. Thin and flexible electronic [...]


Solar Rucksack – keeps mountaineers warm

Regular talk2myShirt reader will have noticed my special lover for solar bags. I am lucky to live in a place with 200+ days of sunshine per year and my self made solar bag is doing a great job for almost [...]


TecInTex – Technology Integration into Textiles

Wearable technologies or smart textiles are of high interest among the medical community as these technologies promise to enable more accurate monitoring of patients while giving more dignity and convenience to the patients in form of discretely integrated sensors into [...]


DIY – stylish eTextile embroidery

The fabulous eTextile DIY site ‘How to get what you want‘ from  Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson keeps on adding frequently new material for every eTextile enthusiast to learn and to get inspired. I love the recently posted embroidered potentiometers [...]


Flip-Flops with headlights

For everyone who was shocked about the Zap Sandal’s price we found another option for illuminated footwear, the Teva Illum Sandals. The waterproof light module on these Flip-Flop style sandals is detachable so during daylight there is no need to [...]


Smart Fabrics 2010 coming soon

A reminder for the upcoming Smart Fabrics conference which will take place between April 14 – 16 in Miami, Florida. This years event promises to be even more interesting than the previous conferences. A long list of interesting speaker covering [...]


Memory rich clothing – Meet and Playback glove

I love the idea using clothing to record the daily life like whom we meet, where we have been, what we have done and so on. Collecting these memories on-the-go does not require attention from the wearer, it just happens. [...]