Geek chic – DIY alarm purse
Today’s weekend DIY project is about upgrading a purse with a personal alarm system. Sadly, especially for women it is always a good advice to have a kind of personal alarm device in the pocket or bag while walking alone in most of the big cities around the world.
But having the personal alarm device i……
Nemo, the experience of pregnancy
Industrial design student Floor Mattheijssen likes to create systems and services around the human body, the body movements and physiology in medical context.
Her latest design is a monitoring system for unborn children called NEMO, short for ‘non-invasive electro-physiological monitor for obstetrics&……
Quiksilver Cypher PS+ Heated Vest system
Quiksilver introduces a battery powered heat vest that can be worn under any wetsuit. The CYPHER PS+ Heat Vest System delivers hours of heat to maintain core temperature allowing enthusiastic surfer to extend their surfing experience in cooler conditions.
The Cypher PS+ Heat Vest utilizes flexible water proo……
Wear your true lifestyle
‘Wear your true lifestyle‘ is a ‘Wearable Senses‘ project from Gordon Tiemstra, student at the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the focus on a combination of teenagers, lifestyle, identity and smart fabrics.
Gordon started out by research……
T-Mobile Pulse PAYG Android phone goes on sale today
Android has gone from strength to strength this year, and now T-Mobile's Pulse, the first Android phone to hit pay as you go, has gone on sale.With a 3.5-inch touchscreen and 3.2 megapixel camera, the Pulse shares similar sp……
Motorola Droid specs leaked on Motorola website
Motorola has managed to leak the full deets of its second Android phone, the Droid, on its own website.Spotted in a few spy shots last week, we now know we can expect a slider phone with a 3.7-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, 5 megapixel……
ECO-fashion: T-Shirt shows melting polar ice cap
With the help of thermochromic ink technology Webelow Wear is painting an animation on T-Shirts showing the global warming effect on the polar ice cap over the past 30 years.
Webelow Wear’s Polar Ice Cap Shirt is the most sensible T-Shirt design I have seen. Sensible in terms of the message it conveys……
Flowtime: wearable electronics for yoga
Wearable electronic is currently on stage at the Dutch Design Week held between Oct 17 and 25 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The wearable electronic concepts are the creation of students participating in the ‘Wearable Senses‘ course at the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven Universi……
Walk – interactive shirt shows how much you walk
Doing even simplest forms of exercise like walking is already an effort people in so called highly developed countries have to be motivated to do.
Many spend time in offices and in front of TV or computer in the evenings, make hardly a mile a day.
Stefan Zwegers has a innovative, motivational proposal in fro……
Jakob – social networking accessory for your sofa
For many ‘connected’ people, online social activities are sometimes more intensive than the social interaction with family members living in the same house.
To make ‘off-line’ socializing more appealing to the online addicted crowed, Dutch Industrial Design student Paula Kassenaar h……
