New books about Wearable Electronic
While ordering my copy of Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sewby Alison Lewis which started shipping two days ago I stumbled upon two other upcoming books from Diana Eng due to be launched in the first quarter of 2009.
The first one is TechStyle: Create Wired Wearables and Geeky Gear in cooperation with Natalie [...]
Interactive fashion from Argentina for the digital lifestyle
Argentine clothing line Indarra DTX created an impressive collection of Interactive apparel ranging from iPod controlling jackets and pants to cellphone charging jackets.
Fashion Designer Julieta Gayoso, founder of Indarra DTX said that technology has become today such an important part of life that it is necessary to be available with a person everywhere.
Her mobile fashion [...]
Temperature Sweater
Fitting perfectly into the unstable autumn weather most of us facing right now is the Temperature Sweater, a creation from Despina Papadopoulos, founder of Studio 5050.
The cozy fleece sweater has in each sleeve a temperature display, one for Celsius and one for Fahrenheit so you don’t have to struggle converting from one unit to the [...]
Wearable Posture Monitoring
One of the most ’sensible’ wearable electronic concepts I have seen is the Wearable Posture Monitoring vest from Lucy Dunne.
Spending every day a lot of the time behind the desk and hammering around the keyboard like many others are doing nowadays, the body posture changes from energetic in the morning to almost melting in the [...]
Design for Wearability
Digging around in our library I found an interesting report from the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University on Design for Wearability.
This research has been done ten years ago and is a excellent guide for designers, students and hobbyists who want to find the best place to integrate technical elements into clothing.
The [...]
Beijing Olympics opening with light suits
I just can’t pass this over: Chinese men wearing suits with lights during a full dress rehearsal which was conducted under a cloak of secrecy ahead of one of the most anticipated summer Olympic Games of all times.
Didn’t the Chinese invent the fireworks many thousands years back? Maybe the Light Suits are their latest invention [...]
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 [...]
Wireless PTT Glove
Oskar Palinko, a grad student at the University of New Hampshire is working on an interesting project: a glove based input for in-car speech interface.
The wireless PTT (push-to-talk) glove has buttons inserted under the fingertips of the index finger and the thumb. These buttons activate when index finger and thumb are pressed together an RF [...]
‘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 [...]
Gesture Jam Glove for Musicians, DJs or the next generation Wii games
We have covered gloves with light build into them, gloves that make your hand talk and gloves giving your hand eyes. The latest addition to our intelligent glove collection is the ‘Gesture Jam Glove‘, a creation of a team of design and research professionals at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Gesture Jam [...]