Plug-and-Wear: One-stop-shop for eTextile crafters

Plug-and-Wear, a one-stop-shop offering materials and components specifically targeted to eTextile creators has opened it’s shopping doors. Plug-and-Wear is the brain child of Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company with 55+ years [...]


e-Textile beginners guide: How to Sew with Conductive Thread with Diana Eng

Threadbanger, a network for people who love DIY, recreate, refashion and craft, posted a video and Instructables showing Fashion Nerd Diana Eng teaching the basics of ‘How to Sew with Conductive Thread‘ on the project ‘Robot and Friend’ from her [...]


e-Textile programming with light: Aniomagic Button-schemer

Nwanua Elumeze from Aniomagic keeps on amazing me with extraordinary smart and simple e-textile components. The newest addition to the e-textile treasure chest: Button-schemer, an ambient program reader the size of a nickel which is programmable with specially timed flashes [...]


Music Bear iPod Speaker

Japanese love to make everything cute so it is no surprise that softening conventional technology is getting it’s share of cute products. I like how Japanese using technology in such playful and fun way. The Music Bear iPod Speaker is [...]


Fashion Geek book launch

The wait is over, Diana Eng invites to her book launch party with Haute Tech fashion show tomorrow, March 19, in NYC. Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Tech is shipping now, get your copy and indulge into the many projects the [...]


e-textile DIY – tilt sensing bracelet

Hannah Perner-Wilson added a cute little DIY project to her growing Instructables collection: the Fabric & Bead Tilt Sensing Bracelet. What does the bracelet do? It is decorated with six conductive fabric petals and a thread of beads with a [...]