Ultimate Setup - festival
With Glastonbury about to kick off, we’ve rounded up some of the finest festival gadgetry and gear – the kit that’ll make your three-day stint in the sun (or mud) that little bit more enjoyable…
Eurohike Flash Mach III Blackout £80www.millets.co.ukAs we said in our full-on review of the Flash Mach II Blackout, this three-person te……
Video Review - JooJoo tablet
Before the JooJoo put in an official appearance, speculation had it down as a potential iPad adversary. It may be a far cry from its uber popular rival, but the huge Linux-based slate has the power to do things Apple's 'wonder' toy simply cannot - like provide Flash support, multitasking and a webcam/mic combo. So far, so good. It isn't without its flaws, though. For example there's no 3G option, so Wifi ……
SYSTEX Smart Textiles Student Award 2010
SYSTEX in connection with Ghent University – Department of Textiles is inviting the wearable electronic community to submit projects for this years SYSTEX Student Award 2010 and Smart-Textiles-Salon 2010.
Our extensive coverage about the SYSTEX Student Award 2009 may serve as inspirational source and m……
DIY – Light Up Cycling Jersey
Riding a bicycle by night, especially in areas with street lights far apart requires good lighting on the bike. To increase the visibility and with it the safety of bikers, illumination of a bikers clothing is a wise choice only – there are very few commercial products on the market.
Most biking enthus……
eTextile DIY community – LilyPond
The high-low tech team at MIT under the lead of eTextile innovator Leah Buechley started a very interesting project called LilyPond, a eTextile Web community and place for collaboration and sharing of eTextile projects.
LilyPond is aiming to pond the LilyPad community and to provide support for people who wa……
Wearable technology for Improved Social Interaction
Designer, artist Lauren McCarthy, currently an MFA student in the UCLA Design / Media Arts program developed ‘Tools for Improved Social Interacting‘, a series of wearable devices that use sensors to condition the behavior of the wearer to better adapt to expected social behaviors.
An interesting ……
DIY – Bi-Directional Flex Sensor
Flex sensors are a often used elements in eTextile projects as they give indication of movement or pressure events in interactive wearable electronic objects.
Plusea has made a large range of stretch and pressure sensors using neoprene and conductive yarn as the key elements.
Instructable member jiovine made……
eTextile DIY treasure chest – Plug and Wear
Riccardo Marchesi started around a year ago the online shop Plug and Wear to provide the eTextile community with a one-stop-shop offering eTextile designer a large selection of materials for wearable electronic projects.
The relative new area of wearable electronic with it’s specific eTextile component……
Emotional Fashion – Wearable Absence
WAb (Wearable Absence) is an interactive garment connecting to a database wireless via a mobile device to enhance the wearers emotional stage with prerecorded memories in audio/visual from.
The WAb garment is fitted with a range of senors that detect heart rate and skin conductivity which allow to calculate……
Wearable Power – Paper Battery
Assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford Yi Cui and his team have manufactured a new energy storage device (battery) out of ordinary paper or cloth coated with carbon nanotube ink.
Sounds fantastic news for wearable power especially as this process can be made cheaply and efficien……
