Smart Urban Wear – The utope project
Austrian Designer Wolfgang Langeder and the Fraunhofer IZM / Stretchable Circuits in Berlin, have joined forces to develop Smart Urban Wear with focus on an innovative display on clothing.
‘The utope project approaches a textile utopia: The exterior of clothing becomes a display. This creates the possi……
Job opportunity: PhD position for wearable technology
The Department of Industrial Design (ID) of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) is looking to fill a PhD position working on bridging smart textile design with interactive product design.
This position is situated within the theme of Wearable Senses and the Designing Quality in Interaction group (DQ……
FashionWare Runway Show during CES 2011
What better place one can imagine to show off fashion and technology then the annual technology center of the universe, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 bringing the next generation of wearable technology on the FashionWare runway.
This evening event will be hosted by high-tech fashion……
Coming up: Smart sports apparel from Reebok
Sports apparel brand Reebok joins the growing list of sports brands that utilize soft, wearable technology in their apparel lines to record and stimulate the active folks around us in their drive to break records or just to monitor the fitness level.
Either way, the integration of a sensor network in sports ……
10 of the best geek T-shirts
Wearing your passion on your sleeve has never been so easy, but it's more fun to wear it on your chest. These T-shirts ought to help…
Banksy Monkey Detonator£15, chargrilled.co.uk What better way to prove you’re tuned-in to the twin advancements of Bristolian youth culture and monkeys taking over the planet than a……
Sneak peek into the illuminated fashion future – Moon Berlin
Without pretending to be a oracle that knows what’s in the fashion stores of the future I do see light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to illuminated clothing.
The idea of illuminating clothing for aesthetic purpose has been around for some time and Cute Circuit started the commercialization of ……
Virgin brings back TiVo
Virgin Media has unveiled its new TV service that delivers on-demand programming, web-based TV apps and a highly personalized user-experience through a single TiVo-powered box. It’s expected to launch mid-December.Through Virgin Media’s existing cable service, you can watch live TV, access Virgin Media’s 4,600 hour library of on-demand TV, movies and music, view programmes from the TV guide’s previous……
News Nugget – copy and paste coming to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s newly minted Windows Mobile 7 OS got off to a solid start but arrived with a few shortcomings. The lack of multi-tasking for switching easily between apps, and no support for Flash 10.1 video when web browsing were major oversights. But perhaps the most criminal, given Microsoft’s heritage, was the omission of a copy and paste facility.
Christmas Gift Guide – photography
'Tis the season to take thousands of photos, mostly in poor light of friends wearing silly hats and groping workmates, or "arty" shots of Christmas decorations. Whatever your photographic passion, we've got a gift suggestion…
Lomography Spinner 360°£115 lomography.orgWe could throw almost any Lomograph……
Color Changing Moonlight Cushion
Illuminated, color changing cushions are not new but with the onset of long, dark hours that come at this time of the year, bringing some relaxing, soft colors into the living room has great potential to cheers people up.
To my experience any kind of light radiating object with a soft, tactile feel never mis……
