eTextile DIY - Sensitive Fingertips
It must have been a busy time lately for Instructables member Pulsea aka Hannah Perner-Wilson who was heavily involved into the creation and launch of ‘How to get what you want‘ a excellent resource for eTextile enthusiasts and now she published one of her fabulous textile sensor works on Instructables c……
HealthWear - wearable electronic health monitoring
Venturing around research activities into wearable electronic another European funded projects got my attention: the HealthWear project, a collaboration funded by the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission with the aim to deliver a service that provides uninterrupted and ubiquitou……
NeonString for illuminated fashion design
Triggered by a question from one of our dear readers about possible technologies usable to add light-up elements to clothing designs, I have been looking around if there is anything else next to Photochromic yarns or the glow-in-the-dark yarns which both need light to trigger the color change.
EL-foil techno……
Sound generating Tuxedo
Inspired by the wave of illuminated clothing used by artists I looked around the creative wearable electronic community for other music related clothing.
My search came up with the Accouphene Tuxedo created by Vincent Leclerc, Joanna Berzowska and the XS labs crew back in 2006. The idea behind the Accouphene……
Acer unveils business-flavoured Aspire One Pro netbook
Our one major quibble with Acer's otherwise lovely Aspire One D250 netbook was that its three cell battery struggled to get beyond the two hour mark. If that's a deal-breaker for you, it might be worth auditioning its ne……
e_Static Shadows - textile display visualizes electro static
‘e-Static Shadows‘ is a research project by designer Dr. Zane Berzina and architect Jackson Tan which creatively explores the speculative and poetic potential of static electricity found in our everyday environments, surrounding our everyday interactions.
The aim of the project is to investigate ……
Metallica M4 Jacket with Speakers and iPhone connection
Metallica, the biggest selling heavy metal band in the world is the latest example of how music artist’s embrace wearable technologies joining the likes of Madonna, Bono, Kanye West or OK GO to name a few.
A partnership between Metallica and Sessions, a leading snowboard and action sports company selli……
Open Softwear - a book about fashionable prototyping
Wearable electronic designer and crafter just got a new, fabulous source of information and inspiration from Open Softwear and it’s authors Tony Olsson, David Gaetano, Jonas Odhner, Samson Wiklund.
Open Softwear is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, an……
New eTextile DIY site - How to get what you want
Fitting nicely to the start of Open Softwear, a book/guide/project to help getting started with wearable electronic technologies, the launch of ‘How to get what you want‘ a website with the aim to be a comprehensible, accessible and maintainable reference resource for everything around eTextiles ……
eTextile DIY - Proximity Sensing Fabric
This weeks eTextile DIY project introduction comes from Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) who is by the way organizing the Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad (still some places left for the August session).
The Proximity Sensing Fabric proje……
