AwareFashion visualizes our invisible connections
Richard Etter, Diana Grathwohl and Sigmund Homolya created AwareFashion, clothing that senses and visualizes today’s invisible, digital layer of wireless networks that surround us wherever we are.
AwareFashion’s concept is based on the idea to visualize the digital environment we are living with, which surrounds use. All the radio waves, be it radio or TV broadcast, [...]
Game of Life controlled by EKG Hoodie
Conway’s Game of Life has been explored before in wearable electronic by Leah Buechley or Elizabeth Fuller, showing random light pattern on dresses or jackets based on the rules of the Game of Life.
The starting point of the artificial life form comes in these examples from a random number generated by a micro chip.
The ‘Game [...]
Compass Vibro Anklet – North Paw
North Paw is an anklet that tells the wearer which way is North. The anklet holds eight cellphone vibrator motors around the ankle. A control unit containing an electronic compass senses magnetic north and turns on and off the motors.
At any given time only one motor is on and this motor is the closest [...]
Interactive clothing gives goose bumps
No other product we own comes closer to our body, our skin sensory feelings than clothing and no other personal communication is more intimidate than a soft touch that triggers goose bumps or sends a tickle along the spine.
Combining both, Lina Saleem, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IZM, designed the Hap.tickle GREETING dress which is [...]
Twitter Fashion
Twitter, one of the hottest social networking tools which created communities via 140 character lines looks like to become a favorite for the wearable electronic community as well.
A few short years ago, we all where happily writing lots of emails to our friends, then came Facebook to link up and expand our network. With the [...]
The touch sensitive S-Dress
The S-Dress is another interesting wearable electronic concept design I found recently. Made by Suzan Ereslan for her final project at the Interactive Telecommunications Project at NYU in 2006.
Suzan derived the S-Dress name from Estrus, the swelling and reddening of the female genitals to indicate mating readiness to the male of the species.
The underlying design [...]
Sound reactive nightgown
Voice activation is a function electronic devices like cell phones, GPS units and computer include in their feature list to make it more convenient to interact with them but clothing? Yes, clothing too, at least this is what Sarah Soriano, a new media artist with a love to electrify garments is proposing with the sound [...]
Kinetic Dress by Kerry Jia Yi Lin
We love to transform ourselves by selecting our clothing carefully according the lifestyle, the belonging or the mood we want to represent.
Clothing that transforms itself based on our ever changing mood swings or social needs must be the ultimate solution for our desire to change outfit: Instant reaction on changes and taking away the need [...]
Interactive fashion Spring 2010
Canadian fashion brand KILLA is opening the 2010 interactive fashion season with the launch of the Spring collection which once again demonstrates the dedication and leadership of KILLA and their brand ARCHITECT in technology enabled street wear.
A selection of gorgeous looking sweater and hoodies make use of the eTextile based keypads of QIO Systems which [...]
Spyder Destroyer Jacket with sound control
Spyder is one of the brands making use of the Skullcandy wearable electronic system we posted about a few days ago. The Spyder Destroyer Jacket is available in the colors black and red-white with a Skullcandy electronics compatible exterior.
Integrated into the jacket is a flexible keypad and the eTextile cable system which provides a connection [...]
