QIO Systems textile touch pads for fashion designer
QIO Systems which licensed the ElekTex and SOFTswitch technologies is putting back the textile keypad into the interactive fashion world.
A wealth of information is available on QIO System’s new Website showing the solutions QIO is offering to the fashion brands and manufacturers.
Next to the fabric keypad QIO Systems offers a wide range of electronic [...]
e-Textile pants can improve the lifestyle for elderly
We have pointed out in the past ththe high value e-textiles and wearable technologies have to help improving the lifestyle of persons requiring medical treatment, rehabilitation after medical treatment and enhancing the life style of elderly persons by assisting declining body functions.
Without wearable technologies many of this persons are confined to rooms or stationary monitoring. [...]
EroGear Wearable Display Jacket
Extending our wearable display topic from yesterday, we found another amazing wearable display from a company called ‘EroGear‘.
But unlike to our story yesterday, EroGear is offering their wearable display integrated in any jacket of your choice.
Here are some of the impressive features EroGear is offering in their tailor made display jackets: a software package that [...]
DIY textile display - Embroidered LED matrix
Another amazing way on how to ’soften electronic’ or should I say ‘electrify textiles’ has been worked out by Leah Buechley, an Embroidered LED matrix providing a soft display for your next outfit.
Leah’s ‘proof of concept’ demonstrates how to create a textile display by using both sides of a fabric to realize a 2 layer [...]
Gesture Jam Glove for Musicians, DJs or the next generation Wii games
We have covered gloves with light build into them, gloves that make your hand talk and gloves giving your hand eyes. The latest addition to our intelligent glove collection is the ‘Gesture Jam Glove‘, a creation of a team of design and research professionals at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Gesture Jam [...]
Reconfigurable Soft Wall Lamp made from e-textiles
‘Soft Wall Lamp‘ is a unique e-textile concept created by Alex Kowal during the ‘Soft Circuits Workshop’, a class at NYU’s ITP program that was taught and developed by Kate Hartman.
Hartman shared her knowledge of making soft circuits in a 6 week long workshop between May and June. Her teaching and inspiration about soft circuits, [...]
Madonna wears a sparkling and twinkling Lucky Star cape on her Confession Tour
A fan of our blog and Madonna (Ras) pointed us to another ‘electrifying’ stage outfit.
Madonna wears during her ‘Lucky Star‘ song a cape that sparkles and twinkles when she opens it, giving the lyrics of ‘Lucky Star’ an additional, visual dimension.
‘Lucky Star’ was Madonna’s first song she wrote as a signed artist, a simple but [...]
Stretchable textile pressure sensors for better product design
Pressure Profile Systems, Inc. started in 1996 as a commercial spin-off from Harvard University to design, develop and manufacture high performance multi-element pressure and tactile sensing systems.
Their latest commercially available product is the FingerTPS(TM) (Finger Tactile Pressure Sensing). Flexible sensors are worn on the hand and transmit accurate, repeatable tactile force data to a [...]
e-Textile Sensor Workshop for Musicians and Artists
Wearable Electronic and Musicians might not have a obvious relation but this is going to change. The University of California’s Department of Music is holding the ‘2008 Sensor Workshop for Musicians and Artists‘ focusing on e-textile technologies.
New fiber and malleable materials including conductive fabrics, piezoresistive fabrics, conductive heatshrink tubing, carbon fiber etc. will be [...]
Walk on Light - the Luminoso Rug
Rugs that light-up seems to become a new trend for the sophisticated lifestyle.
First we saw the FootLume with EL light in a Rug to light the way in the dark and now we have the Luminoso, a Wool Rug interwoven with LEDs.
The Luminoso is a creation from Top Floor an interior design company focussed on [...]
