Archive for April, 2010
Solar power Backpack with mosquito repeller
The approaching sunny summer time is inviting to spend more time outside – a healthy mindset but causing some headache when it comes to keep all our electronic gadgets charged up while disconnected from the power grid. Solar bags started [...]
Subtle Subtitles Scarf
Blending technology with clothing generate amazing innovative ideas like the one I am going to introduce today: the Subtle Subtitles Scarf designed by Calum Pringle, Interactive Media Design student at Dundee University. Calum’s motivation for the Subtitles Scarf which is [...]
GER – emotional fashion
Fashion is emotional, any piece of clothing we buy is selected based on our emotions, feelings, likes and view of the world. To elevate this emotional aspect of clothing Kristin Neidlinger, designer with focus on Sensory Computer Interface designed GER [...]
Communicating Jacket
The ‘Communicating Jacket‘ by David Bormans and Ivan Razin aims to create a jacket that allows interactive communication within the personal space of the wearer. The personal space as it is defined in this project of the Digital Arts Studio [...]
DIY – Weight sensing Tote Bag
Instructables member markaleung made one of those sensible wearable electronic concepts I love for their simplicity and sensibility in regard to the functionality offered: the Weight sensing Tote Bag. Knowing the weight of a bag, especially when flying somewhere can [...]
HaptiHug – affective garment hugs you
Who has not send his/her hugs via SMS, email or phone. Although ernest mend it is just a word. But sending a hug with it’s warmth could soon become more tactile according to Japanese researchers. Dzmitry Tsetserukou, assistant professor at [...]
PING – social networking fashion
The rapidly growing interest into wearable electronics is attracting the attention of innovative fashion designer, technologists, artists and the educational sector who create wearable electronic design concepts of astonishing sophistication. An example of the creative power of wearable technologies comes [...]
