DIY – Goodnight Pillow
We have posted many times about commercially available pillows with integrated sound systems to help people falling asleep by relaxing, soothing tunes.
Instructables user opcp took things in her own hands to ’save her marriage’ as she writes in her project introduction, as her husband belongs to ……
Get the sound outdoors – BoomPak from Dell
Need to cheer up a bit the last leg of this school year? How about the Targus SonicPak from Dell?
Dell is offering this cool looking BoomPak featuring a padded compartment for protection of not only Dell laptops but will also fit for MacBooks of up to 15.4″.
The sound part is integrated into the front ……
Workshop – Weaving Conductive Cloth
Most e-Textile projects as well as commercially available wearable electronic products use sewing as method to add electronic functions into fabrics.
Lynne Bruning, a pioneer in ‘electronic weaving’ shows another option how to electrify our future clothing by using weaving technologies to integra……
Wearable Electronic science – printed power
Wearable power, a highly researched topic for wearable electronics and many other application field got another faced: supercapacitors made up of a gel electrolyte sandwiched between two carbon-nanotube electrodes, could be created by using existing ink-jet printing methods.
Capacitors and batteries both sto……
Samsung Omnia Pro headed for July release?
Not content with dominating the tech headlines today with news of its first Android phone, Samsung is also causing buzz with whispers that the Omnia Pro handset is on its way in the summer.The Photoshoppers over at HDblog have m……
e-textile DIY – Sensing Bracelet
Plusea has added another of her highly inspirational and very detailed e-textile instructions to her ever growing Instructables library, the ‘Time Sensing Bracelet‘
The Time Sensing Bracelet is a circular fabric potentiometer where a fictive time can be set by making contact in the correspondin……
Bare conductive – electrifying the body
Conductive body paint could enable us to interact with our continuously shrinking electronic devices not only via clothing but directly via our skin.
At least this is the vision of the creator of ‘Bare Conductive‘: Becky Pilditch, Matt Johnson, Isabel Lizardi and Bibi Nelson, from the Industrial ……
Wearable Electronic science – Nanofication of textiles
At times, nano-whatever seems to solve all problems the world is suffering from. Nano has the sound of a ‘magic spell’ on it.
No wonder that ‘nanofication’ of textiles was one of the first areas nano technology found early commercial applications. One of the most prominent nano-textil……
Interactive, Talking Quilt
The ‘Talking Quilt‘, a co-creation between Fiona Carswell, designer of the shockingly-creative ‘Smoking Jacket‘, Alice Tseng-Planas, Kate Hartman, Kati London, Megan MacMurray and Nanna Halinen was developed for speech and learning sessions with a non-verbal, mobility-challenged young……
HTC Magic now bound for 5 May
People went mad for it at MWC back in Feb and it’s common knowledge there have been a few bumps and hiccups along the road to the release of the G1’s successor, citing ‘last minute hardware issues’ as the……
