Archive for May, 2010
Smart sensing backpack with Aniomagic eTextile components
The folks over at Aniomagic have made a weight sensitive backpack. Note the emphasis is on weight sensitive and not weight sensing. Using Aniomagic’s fabulous smart eTextile components and a force sensitive resistor you can create a cool light animation [...]
SleepPhones Headphones
There are millions of headphone types on the market but none of them are comfortable enough to sleep with them as they will fall out or peek you. Meet the SleepPhones from ThinkGeek, headphones nestled inside a soft and cozy [...]
This is It – Illuminated stage-wear as Michael Jackson would have done it
With all the hype surrounding illuminated clothing, especially among artists on stage, I thought to beam up the illuminated Tuxedo Michael Jackson would have worn on the ‘This is It‘ if things in his life would have turned out for [...]
Columbia Sportwear Omni-Heat Boots for Fall 2010
Many of us look forward to a hot summer season but the apparel brands think one or two seasons ahead and prepare for the next winter already now. So even if you can not imagine right now to have cold [...]
Implantable Electronics
A topic that goes one step further than Wearable Electronic: Implantable Electronic. Wearable of course but this new field of electronics g=does not stop on the skin, it goes under the skin. For me, implantable electronic is as fascinating as [...]
Power walking
Innovators keep on searching restlessly for ways to use the huge amount of energy we are generating while going after our daily business. Especially while walking a great amount of energy is generated with each step we take, a fascinating [...]
DIY soft electronics: Sew-through circuit board
Meredith Scheff, self proclaimed artist, writer, mechanic and fabricator posted a really cool design of a soft, sew-through circuit board using DuPont’s Pyralux Copper Clad Laminate, a very thin and flexible sheet of polyimide which has copper on one side. [...]
