Climate Dress – CO2 sensing fashion
There is a high probability the Climate Dress was made by a Danish cooperation consisting of design studio Diffus, Danish designer Tine M. Jensen, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.
Sadly, the recently broken closed down climate conference COP15 did not come up with any significant [...]
Haptic Radar gives sixth sense to clothing
We received a notice from Alvaro Cassinelli, member of the Haptic Radar project team from the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. The Haptic Radar project is running for some time with continuous improvements that might lead one day soon to a concept that could jump over to the commercial world.
The motivation for [...]
OSMO – social networking enabled clothing
After writing about the Wearable Friend Finder, I was on the lookout if there are any other design concepts around the idea of bringing the social networking trend and the personalization desire for clothing together.
My find of the day: ‘OSMO the Custom Social Network‘ is envisioning participants of social networks to customize clothing with smart, [...]
Wearable Friend Finder
New Media students at the University of Maine developed a Wearable Friend Finder that brings the match making, friend(ster) finding out of the internet and onto the streets.
In their last semester’s interactive Web development class the students created the electronic Friend Finder, a wearable device designed to help people make a personal connection and break [...]
Highly fashionable and intelligent fitness apparel from Adidas
Adidas is taking the lead when it comes to highly fashionable and very smart fitness clothing. After the launch of the AdiStar Fusion selection in 2007, Adidas expanded their smart fitness apparel collection adding different styles for men and women.
The latest collection of the Adidas Fusion and the new miCoach fitness apparel range use [...]
NavJacket – GPS Jacket navigation for winter sports
O’Neill prepares to launch the NavJacket for the winter season 2008/09. Introduced end of last year, this ground breaking intelligent jacket proofs once again the innovative leadership of O’Neill’s H-Division team in the wearable electronic market.
The final version of the NavJacket has a slightly different arm display than the prototype seen before, a more conventional [...]
SmartNoti Jacket keeps track of your personal belongings
A combination of fashion and high-tech function the SmartNoti, short for for Smart Notification, is a unique solution for the common problem people like you and me exhibit too often: misplace or leave behind our personal belongings.
SmartNoti, designed by Georgia Institute of Technology students Nicholas Komor, Sidhant Gupta and Mayank Goel is a is Bluetooth [...]
New style for talk2myShirt
Our frequent readers of talk2mySirt have noticed we have change the style of our blog. We did keep the base character the same but made a ‘fresher’, ‘brighter’ look and feel.
Our motivator behind the style change is to make browsing through our growing information data base as easy and convenient as possible. We moved all [...]
Vital Jacket – the future of Heart Monitoring
The Vital Jacket® is an intelligent wearable garment that is able to continuously monitor electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate as used in medical environment, high performance sports and fitness.
The company behind this futuristic Jacket/Shirt is Biodevices, S.A., a spin-off from IEETA (Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro / University of Aveiro, [...]
Intelligent Textiles and Clothing – book review
Integrating intelligent textiles into clothing is an exciting field as you can see by checking out our blog.
Over the holiday season I had some spare time to read a book titled: ‘Intelligent textiles and clothing’ edited by Dr Heikki Mattila, Professor of Textile and Clothing Technology at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
This is one of [...]
