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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
