Aug 19
fashion
CuteCircut – The M-Dress is an elegant silk jersey dress that is also a functional soft electronics mobile phone. The M-Dress accepts a standard SIM card and allows the wearer to receive and make calls without carrying a cellular phone in their pocket or purse. Simplicity is elegance.
[...] To allow women to stay connected while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M- Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry. The wearer inserts their usual SIM card in the small slot underneath the label and the dress is ready to be used, having the same phone number as your usual phone. When the dress rings, the simple gesture of bringing your hand to the ear will allow the sensor to open the call and when done talking the gesture of releasing the hand downwards will close the call.
Apr 06
fashion, jewelry
Singularity Hub — Let’s face it, without the technology you use everyday you’d be pretty stuck. No automatic coffee pot, no iPhone, no GPS helping you crash your car. How would you even make it to the office? Not satisfied with the death grip they have on you now, scientists and designers the world over are finding new ways to integrate technology into every part of your life. Enter electronic clothes. These garments and accessories contain computers, lights, and all sorts of gadgets meant to bring you into the modern age. Why wear boring regular clothes when the newest styles will turn you into a walking multimedia phenomenon. Some of these clothes could even save your career.
The top ten according to Singularity Hub:
- Any Shirt ThinkGeek
Has Sold…Ever
- I’m Sorry, Is Your Ring…Ringing?
- The Part of Your Body that Doesn’t Need More Attention
- Scarfs for Autism
- Costumes that Listen
- Clothes with Controls
- The Shirt That Hugs You…Where are The Pants?
- The Data Logging Shirt
- Do It Yourself Electronic Hoodies
- The GalaxyDress by Cute Circuit
Mar 23
fashion
ThinkGeek
– [sic] Here at ThinkGeek we’re constantly amazed at the never-ending evolution of new technology. Hey, it’s our job. Take the lowly T-Shirt for example: In caveman times you had animal pelts… the Medieval era saw rise to the stylish burlap sack… next came lovely soft cotton and then synthetic polyester. Finally the modern space age delivers a fully functioning graphic equalizer in a handy t-shirt format. Party like it’s 2999 with the glowing display on the T-Qualizer that dynamically changes with any ambient sound or music. This has to be the coolest wearable tech we’ve seen since the George Foreman backpack grill.
Mar 10
fashion
cnet – crave — Sashaying down the runway this weekend toward the future of wearable technology: a solar-powered dress that revs gadgets via a USB charger located in the waist.
Parts of the dress come from Cornell University’s Textiles Nanotech Laboratory, which teamed up with two Italian universities to create cotton threads that can conduct electrical currents, yet remain light and comfortable enough to feel like the good old cotton we all know and love to sleep in.
”Previous technologies have achieved conductivity, but the resulting fiber becomes rigid and heavy,” said Juan Hinestroza, an assistant professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at the university whose student, Abbey Liebman, designed the solar frock. “More importantly our coatings are robust, hence making our yarns friendly to further processing such as weaving, sewing, and knitting.”
Jan 20
fashion
PhysOrg.com — Could powering an iPod or cell phone become as easy as plugging it into your tee shirt or jeans, and then recharging the clothing overnight? Scientists in California are reporting an advance in that direction with an easier way of changing ordinary cotton and polyester into “conductive energy textiles” — e-Textiles that double as a rechargeable battery. Their report on the research appears in ACS’ Nano Letters.
“Wearable electronics represent a developing new class of materials with an array of novel functionalities, such as flexibility, stretchability, and lightweight, which allow for many applications and designs previously impossible with traditional electronics technology,” Yi Cui and colleagues note. “High-performance sportswear, wearable displays, new classes of portable power, and embedded health monitoring systems are examples of these novel applications.”
Jan 13
fashion, jewelry, phone
What’s Your Tech — There’s one cool little product that has garnered quite a buzz following the CES show — rather than during it. It’s called the O.R.B. Wireless Earpiece Finger Ring, and it’s an example of clever convergence that fuses fashion with function — and works with a product you already own.
When you’re not using your smartphone, the O.R.B. slips onto your finger and resembles a modern-looking ring. But this piece of jewellery has a unique twist: an e-ink display with caller ID. Therefore, using Bluetooth wireless technology, will show you the name and/or number of the person calling you. Therefore, you can decide to answer or not. More
Jan 07
fashion
The Toronto Star – Is your cellphone a part of you? Maybe not yet, but it could be soon. [...] Every step forward in the field of electronics seems to make our lives easier and, on the whole, better. So it makes sense that we love technology enough to want to get close to it, to want to embrace it, to want to become a part of it and have it become a part of us. But I think we can do better than a jacket that plays music. There are so many more practical and impactful uses for wearable computers that focusing on a singing sweater seems a little silly…
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