Archive for June, 2010
SYSTEX Smart Textiles Student Award 2010
SYSTEX in connection with Ghent University – Department of Textiles is inviting the wearable electronic community to submit projects for this years SYSTEX Student Award 2010 and Smart-Textiles-Salon 2010. Our extensive coverage about the SYSTEX Student Award 2009 may serve [...]
Wearable Power – Paper Battery
Assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford Yi Cui and his team have manufactured a new energy storage device (battery) out of ordinary paper or cloth coated with carbon nanotube ink. Sounds fantastic news for wearable power especially [...]
Emotional Fashion – Wearable Absence
WAb (Wearable Absence) is an interactive garment connecting to a database wireless via a mobile device to enhance the wearers emotional stage with prerecorded memories in audio/visual from. The WAb garment is fitted with a range of senors that detect [...]
eTextile DIY treasure chest – Plug and Wear
Riccardo Marchesi started around a year ago the online shop Plug and Wear to provide the eTextile community with a one-stop-shop offering eTextile designer a large selection of materials for wearable electronic projects. The relative new area of wearable electronic [...]
DIY – Bi-Directional Flex Sensor
Flex sensors are a often used elements in eTextile projects as they give indication of movement or pressure events in interactive wearable electronic objects. Plusea has made a large range of stretch and pressure sensors using neoprene and conductive yarn [...]
Pretty Smart Textiles
Pretty Smart Textiles is the name of an exhibition about and around the latest innovations in eTextiles from Dutch artists and designers including Daan Roosegaarde, Maartje Dijkstra, Meg Grant, Nicky Assmann, Dorith Sjardijn, Melissa Coleman, Heike Sperber, Marina Venendaal, Karina [...]
Upcoming eTextile Fashion Shows
Maker Faire and Lynne Bruning come again together to create a fashion show that fuses tech and fashion, function and form, reality and possibility. Lynne Bruning, creator of exclusive wearable art with a special interest in eTextiles is producing eTextile [...]
