Spin on the Waltz – Interactive clothing conquers the ball room
During my travel to Austria, Vienna, I discovered a Viennese inspired wearable electronic project from NYC based Ambreen Hussain a Masters graduate in Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School for Design.
Her project the ‘Spin on the Waltz‘ or ‘Spin‘ for short, creates a new and interactive sound environment for Viennese waltz dancers through two [...]
Climate Wear – Self heating, temperature regulating jacket
Christopher Campbell, William Schake and Rashad Reynolds, electrical engineering students at the University of Akron set out to solve an age old problem:
During early spring and late autumn the weather can vary quite a bit from day to day, even from hour to hour. Snow flakes in the morning and temperate weather in the afternoon. [...]
Second skin sense – Taiknam Hat
Ricardo Nascimento, Ebru Kurbak and Fabiana Shizue, students of the Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria, created an interesting interactive clothing item which is ‘feather rising’ literally and figuratively.
Their project, the Taiknam Hat is a kinetic head-wear that reacts and animates in accordance with the changes in its surrounding medium wave radio signals.
Taiknam Hat is an attempt [...]
Motion Responsive Sportswear
Kerri Wallace, a textile designer from the United Kingdom, has set out to revolutionize fitness and performance apparel by designing responsive textiles with motion sensitive displays.
Her research project ‘Motion Responsive Sportswear‘ is using the correlation between heart rate and body temperature as a trigger for the visual representation of the activity level by changing [...]
Boom Bag from GRO Design
The most gorgeous looking iPod bag we have seen so far is the Boom bag, a design concept from GRO Design, a European design agency dedicated to create successful products for A-brands around the globe.
GRO’s Boom bag design study is part of an investigation on how to use loudspeakers in a more creative way.
We have [...]
iPod glove liner – a unique remote control concept
A brilliant idea for an iPod controlling glove liner based on magnetic contacts has been posted by YouTube member jdub765.
Each finger has assigned on of the five function needed for the basic navigation of an iPod. The ’switch’ is realized with small magnets in the gloves finger tip. When a finger touches the receiver for [...]
