Smart sensing backpack with Aniomagic eTextile components
The folks over at Aniomagic have made a weight sensitive backpack. Note the emphasis is on weight sensitive and not weight sensing.
Using Aniomagic’s fabulous smart eTextile components and a force sensitive resistor you can create a cool light animation on any bag.
It won’t tell you how much weig……
Led-embedded dress
Canadian designer-artist Valérie Lamontagne founded 3lectromode with the vision of innovating in the field of wearables by combining technology with customizable prêt-â-porter fashion.
Valérie and her small design group is focusing on the development of accessible wearables combining state-of-the-art tec……
SmartCap
The SmartCap, an invention by Australian-based research organization CRC Mining to detect fatigue of truck drivers working on mining operations, is fitted with hi-tech brain monitoring sensors.
Invented by CRCMining engineer Dr Daniel Bongers, the SmartCap, a baseball cap with integrated EEG (brain waves) se……
eTextile Fashion Show followup
My fabulous friend Lynne Bruning who organized last weekends eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire compensated for my misfortune of not being able to attend this exiting event myself by sending a wealth of information which I am sharing with the talk2myShirt community over the coming days.
For everyone who co……
Need to know - Android Froyo
Yesterday, Google rolled back the screens and gave us our first proper taste of what’s coming in its new mobile OS edition – Android 2.2, codename Froyo. If you’re a bit shaky on what to expect from this new iteration of the world’s number two mobile platform, we’ve dug around to bring you this comprehensive guide.Why Froyo?If you were Californian, you’d know that Froyo was short for froze……
Dell Streak officially coming to O2
O2 has announced it’ll be exclusively launching the Dell Streak in early June. This long-rumoured 5-inch tablet runs on Google’s Android operating system, and is designed to deliver media playback, web browsing and turn-by-turn navigation in a device smaller than a laptop or netbook.Powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and sporting a connectivity triple whammy of 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the Dell Strea……
DIY soft electronics: Sew-through circuit board
Meredith Scheff, self proclaimed artist, writer, mechanic and fabricator posted a really cool design of a soft, sew-through circuit board using DuPont’s Pyralux Copper Clad Laminate, a very thin and flexible sheet of polyimide which has copper on one side.
If you are familiar with making your own PCBs……
Power walking
Innovators keep on searching restlessly for ways to use the huge amount of energy we are generating while going after our daily business.
Especially while walking a great amount of energy is generated with each step we take, a fascinating but technically very challenging wearable power area many have tried t……
Implantable Electronics
A topic that goes one step further than Wearable Electronic: Implantable Electronic. Wearable of course but this new field of electronics g=does not stop on the skin, it goes under the skin.
For me, implantable electronic is as fascinating as wearable electronic as both aim to use cutting edge technologies t……
Columbia Sportwear Omni-Heat Boots for Fall 2010
Many of us look forward to a hot summer season but the apparel brands think one or two seasons ahead and prepare for the next winter already now.
So even if you can not imagine right now to have cold feet again you might be interested in knowing that Columbia Sportswear will launch this autumn the Omni-Heat ……
