DIY eTextiles – remote control T-shirt
Are you one of the millions who spend a good deal of time search for that TV remote control? If yes – Designer Rebecca Albrand has a cool solution for you, the Remote Control T-Shirt. Using a Remote control T-Shirt [...]
Intelligent Bag – Deja Vu
Deja Vu comes from French and means ‘already seen’ (that). This interesting project title has been selected by MIT students Heidi Chen and Nicole Tariverdian for their intelligent bag, the ‘Deja Vu‘. ‘Already seen’ is applied to the situation at [...]
DIY – textile solar panel
Connecting to yesterdays solar power related article, the summer sun mood many people enjoying right now and the eTextile treasure chest from Meg Grant adds up to an amazing DIY solar cell technique I was really astound when seeing it [...]
The sound of Fabric
Sometimes people ask me if there is a way to replace headphones with smart textiles, sound coming out of a hood or from the fabric around the shoulder areas, near the ears. What at first seems impossible is actually feasible [...]
eTextile treasure chest: Kit-of-No-Parts
Hannah Perner-Wilson, currently working on her masters degree in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, started the Kit-of-No-Parts project, a Website that presents easy to access information about ‘electronics crafting’. I like the term ‘electronics crafting’, [...]
DIY eTextiles – Sewable Disc Button
Sewable eTextile Buttons are the creation of ClothBot Designs using the unique service of Shapeways. The Sewable Disc Button is designed with diagonal thru-holes in the pegs for sewing conductive thread and has at it’s center a hole straight through [...]
Tron Costume by Syuzi Pakhchyan
Being an expert in wearable technology helps tremendously when designing a out-of-this-world party outfit. Point in case: Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of the book Fashioning Technology and the wearable technology Community site Fashioning Technology designed the Tron: Quorra Costume for this [...]
