Smart clothing - Summit Wired IQ apparel
Many people use music for motivation and relaxation during fitness and sports activities and many I know struggle with the earphone cord as it comes much too often in the way, removing the earphones rather suddenly and sometimes painfully from the ears.
Summit Wired, a young, innovative apparel company that engages in merging smart design, technology [...]
Fibretronic rolls out CONNECTED-wear
Fibretronic, one of the wearable electronic system providers for the apparel and soft goods industry, started to offer their range of CONNECTED-wear™ smart modules that hook up to wearable electronic enabled clothing and bags allowing to extend the clothes functionality beyond being just clothing.
The great news about CONNECTED-wear’s modular system for interactive fashion: for [...]
Wed’ze snowboarding jackets Made for iPod
Wed’ze, a snowboarding and ski brand from Decathlon is joining the interactive apparel market with their upcoming Fall/Winter 08/09 range of RNJ (Ride and Jump) snowboarding jackets.
Featuring Fibretronic’s five function joystick controllers in the sleeves of the men’s and women’s snowboarding jacket, these Freestyle jacket give full control over the iPod while racing down [...]
802.11 Apparel - Wifi Jacket
Jenny Chowdhury a resident researcher focusing on wearable and physical computing at NYU/ITP created a range of 802.11 (WiFi) Apparel by taking out the ‘geeky’ look of other WiFi shirts we have posted about.
Her approach is to combine traditional floral pattern used for a long time to decorate clothing with the technology from the [...]
KILLA interactive apparel for the B-boy / B-girl culture
Interactive fashion is getting another exiting addition coming from Vancouver based KILLA, a brand representing lifestyle by redefining Hip-Hop Apparel.
With four styles gearing up to hit retail shelves in the Fall ‘09 season, Killa aims to redefine hip-hop clothing. The four styles include reinterpretations of classic designs including a peacoat and an infantry coat. The [...]
Textronics offers heart rate monitor developer’s kit
Textronics, who’s textile sensor is used to make one the most fashionable heart rate sensing sports apparel follows the trend in the wearable electronic industry by offering a developer’s kit for their heart rate textile sensors.
The Developer’s Kit contains a large selection of Textronics textile sensors (12x), different types of knit tubes with snaps, [...]
‘Crafted’ iPod and iPhone Jacket by Republic
UK high street retail chain Republic has released an iPod jacket in a cool looking Bomber jacket style constructed with metallic yarn to give it a unique crinkled appearance.
The iPod Bomber jacket is part of the Crafted branded collection by Republic and designed for the urban streetwear market. The iPod keypad controller is built into [...]
Give Dad something sensible this Father’s Day
Looking for a ’sensible’ gift for your Dad? NuMetrex has a great offer for Father’s Day: a 20% discount on the Cardio Shirt for Men.
NuMetrex has a range of Cardio Apparel we love to write about. They look gorgeous and work perfectly. Getting a bit in shape at the begin of summer is on the [...]
Interactive Textiles for body mapping garments
Interactive Textiles are not limited to control the iPod or other electronic devices but could also be useful for body-mapping garments as a project by Australians CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology demonstrates.
The idea is as following: to help basketball players to find their ideal shot-making rhythm and motion the system plays a series of beats [...]
Interactive Apparel sale by O’Neill
Few days ago we presented some links where to pick up O’Neill’s cool h4 Interactive Apparel for a reduced price.
Today we found out O’Neill is having their own online Sale, offering the complete h4 Wearable Electronic range for an average discount of around €80.- or $120.- not bad for a cool iPod Jacket like the [...]