iPod Blazer from Park Avenue
Park Avenue, premium formal wear brand from India’s Raymond Apparel is adding to their autumn/winter collection the ‘My Blazer for iPod‘.
The iPod controlling e-textile technology for this high quality and exquisite looking blazer comes from QIO Systems which provides fully textile based i……
DIY wearable electronic - temperature sensing tapestry
Another cool - or should I say hot - DIY project using e-textile technologies surfaced on Instructables by user craft-tech.
The e-textile materials and components used come for base material Aniomagic which has a nice range of simple to use e-textile components including very smart little sensors for light, ……
Animated Cannabis Leaf T-Shirt
Finding T-Shirts with animated decals is not difficult nowadays - partly also thanks to our coverage.
The use of wafer thin EL-foils allows nearly unobtrusive integration of an animated display element that can be treated (washed) like many other T-Shirts (hand washing).
Although some of the designs are very……
Ardica Power Jacket system
Our coverage around wearable power in the consumer space is usually about heating of gloves and other garments. The wearable power system from Ardica is adding a new dimension/function to heated clothing by using the available power to recharge most of the gadgets everyone is having in the pockets on a day o……
DIY Wearable Electronic - LilyPad E-Sewing and Pro Kit
Sparkfun has bundled two versions of the famous and fabulous Wearable Electronic DIY system around Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino e-textile system for the Do-It-Yourself enthusiasts.
You can check out the two LilyPad kits first hand during the Maker Fair which takes center-stage this weekend in Austi……
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-wearâ„¢ smart modules that hook up to wearable electronic enabled clothing and bags allowing to extend the clothes functionality beyond being just clothing.
The gre……
Never miss a phone call with the BluAlert Bracelet
Missing a call on your cell phone is annoying to say the least and can be disastrous in other cases. I don’t know anyone who did not have such unpleasant ‘missed that call’ experiences. The problem usually happens if you keep your phone in a pocket or bag. Not everyone likes to hold a cell phone in han……
The pillow story of Pling Plong
We had our share on interactive pillow coverage like illuminated pillows or sound pillows but the Pling Plong pillow created by Silje Softing sticks out by it’s playful use of ’soft’ low tech to give an twist to the story telling for small children.
The pillow itself tells the bedtime story……
PS Store for PSP finally hits
Having seen the last big PS3 update go belly up in spectacular fashion, Sony has come out all guns blazing today, outing the new PS Store for PSP with their latest bump for the PS3.The new store means you can download games, demos and trailers ov……
Wearable electronic DIY project - Motion-Capture Costume
This week we introduce one of the most complex but also most advanced wearable electronic DIY instructions we have seen: the Puppeteer Motion-Capture Costume developed by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson, two ladies we had an interview earlier this year about this and other projects they are collaboratin……
