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 [...]
Intelligent clothing for the safety of Firefighters
Intelligent clothing is not only a cool ‘must have’ for our fashion outfit but has added value in professional clothing as well. The most innovative use of Smart Textiles is a Firefighter jacket = ‘Turnout Gear‘ in professional speak, with integrated Thermal Sensor Technology (TST) directly into the fabric.
This innovative Turnout Gear is made by [...]
iPod controlling Snowboarding glove iRib
If you spend a lot of time snowboarding or skiing, you might want to have a closer look at the iRib Glove, a high quality glove with integrated iPod control.
The iRib glove from Kombi Sports, a leading brand in ski and snowboarding gloves, launched the iRib a few days ago. The glove features Fibretronic’s five [...]
Space Style 2007 - what do I wear in Space?
Futuristic fashion is part of this years California Space Authority’s Space conference which will take place today on Nov. 6.
Called ‘Space Style 2007: a giant leap for couture’ the exclusive fashion event promises a futuristic peek to the futuristic fashion from a day in the life of the citizens of the proposed lunar cities of [...]
Cool cycling jacket has built-in light indicators
This cycling jacket with built-in light indicators is the coolest integration of technology into a jacket I have seen for a long time. It’s not only cool, it is practical and can be life saving.
In many cities around the world, cyclists are second class users on the streets. No infrastructure that supports cyclists to enable [...]
Romantic with Wearable Electronic
Barbara Layne from Studio subTela designed the Jacket Antics, a Wearable Electronic concept that addresses the sensual part of our life, the softness of textiles, the love and romantic dreams.
Barbara has developed a pair of his-and-hers jackets that use embedded LEDs on the back to send messages using scrolling words. The clothing senses when the [...]
