Archive for May, 2010
Safura – Illuminated Drip-Drop dress
Cute Circuit seems to have found a bright spot in the showbiz by designing gorgeous looking, illuminate stage wear for artists. The latest design from Francesca Rosella is a gorgeous looking illuminated dress worn by singer Safura, representing Azerbaijani at [...]
Soft Circuit Saturdays
What better day than our ‘usual’ Saturday posting around DIY eTextile project to introduce ‘Soft Circuit Saturdays‘ from Angela Sheehan, who is organizing a DIY/Maker crafting group around soft circuits in New Hampshire/Boston area. Angela discovered her interest into e-textiles, [...]
Book preview: Metamorphosis, the transformation of fashion
Riccardo over at Plug-and-Wear send me a book tip which I am more than glad to share: Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis by Elisabetta Cianfanelli and Stoffel Kuenen from the University of Florence, Department of Industrial and Fashion Design. The book promises [...]
Intelligent underwear
Intelligent textiles not only enable the design of fashionable, interactive outfits to show (off) but can add great value to the health care sector, an area I have repeatedly highlighted as one of the potential applications for wearable technologies. Joseph [...]
eTextile Fashion Show followup
My fabulous friend Lynne Bruning who organized last weekends eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire compensated for my misfortune of not being able to attend this exiting event myself by sending a wealth of information which I am sharing with [...]
SmartCap
The SmartCap, an invention by Australian-based research organization CRC Mining to detect fatigue of truck drivers working on mining operations, is fitted with hi-tech brain monitoring sensors. Invented by CRCMining engineer Dr Daniel Bongers, the SmartCap, a baseball cap with [...]
Led-embedded dress
Canadian designer-artist Valérie Lamontagne founded 3lectromode with the vision of innovating in the field of wearables by combining technology with customizable prêt-â-porter fashion. Valérie and her small design group is focusing on the development of accessible wearables combining state-of-the-art technology [...]
