eTextile Fashion Show followup
My fabulous friend Lynne Bruning who organized last weekends eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire compensated for my misfortune of not being able to attend this exiting event myself by sending a wealth of information which I am sharing with [...]
SmartCap
The SmartCap, an invention by Australian-based research organization CRC Mining to detect fatigue of truck drivers working on mining operations, is fitted with hi-tech brain monitoring sensors. Invented by CRCMining engineer Dr Daniel Bongers, the SmartCap, a baseball cap with [...]
Implantable Electronics
A topic that goes one step further than Wearable Electronic: Implantable Electronic. Wearable of course but this new field of electronics g=does not stop on the skin, it goes under the skin. For me, implantable electronic is as fascinating as [...]
KlimaJack – self regulating climate inside a jacket
The KlimaJack (Climate Jacket) research project, a collaboration between German clothing companies and universities under the lead of ITIV (Institute for Information Processing Technology) aims to create climate controlling wearable systems integrated into clothing. Sensors integrated into the clothing’s fabric [...]
eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire
Maker Faire, the #1 event for DIY enthusiasts and Lynne Bruning the #1 in eTextile design teamed up to organize a show that fuses technology and fashion in form of Maker Faire’s first Wearable Computing Fashion Show. Lynne, textile enchantress [...]
The invisibility dress
Students and artists have the privilege to truly think out of the box, to push the technological boundaries far into the future. Whatever is thinkable will be translated into objects that stimulate, challenge and inspire the rest of the world [...]
LED dress from CuteCircuit hits the red carpet, lighting up the fashion world
Last Monday night illuminated clothing was literally the highlight at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Met Costume Institute Gala when singer Katy Perry switched on her LED-dress made by London based Cute Circuit a pioneer of wearable technology development and [...]
