Lianna Sheppard sculpts bold and beautiful sculptural forms anchored around the human body. In her recent project for her MA at Kingston University, she create… Continue

A large part of the DIY ethos is sharing your knowledge with your greater community. In order to grow the soft circuit and e-textile communities, we really need to share our successes and our failures with each other.

Instructables is having a… Continue

For those of you yet to condition yourself to immediately check in upon arrival to a restaurant or dive bar, Casey Halverson may have the perfect shoe hack for you.

Halverson has hacked into the Nike+iPod s… Continue

Nike asked 78 artists to hack into a pair of Nike shoes and challenge its function, using sports as inspiration. Created by Paul Jenkins, the project titled Nike78 is currently archived online and will be exhibited at the London Design Festival in September.

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I acknowledge that the Wii changed— hey maybe even revolutionized—the way we interact and "play" video games. No longer is gaming only an endurance exercise for our opposable thumbs, but, with the introduction of the Wii wireless controller, a full- bodied experience that we can share with our friends.

Personally, I believe networked wearables are the future of gaming. Wearables have the potential to dive deeper into an immersive gaming experience where the Wii has only skimm… Continue

I've been researching kinetic structures and mechanisms lately and I stumbled upon the above video of Kerry Jia Yi Lin's kinetic dress. I had seen this project before but never in live action. It's great to see the garment's movement in relation to the human body.

The garment essentially is a barometer for the wearer's stress levels. It uses a heart rate sensor to trigger movement of the dress.

The project is wonderfully documented at Lin's site so please… Continue

Currently in development, The Vanilla Series is a new line of wearables embedded with an LED display (on the cuffs or back of the coat) that can be dynamically controlled via your iPhone.

Switching the graphics via your smart phone is pretty darn cool but what I p… Continue

Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler from Georgia Tech have developed a series of "fabric manipulation interfaces" to control electronics using embroidered conductive thread. Using simple principles such as closing a circuit via touch and taking advantage of conductive thread's resistance, these gestural interfaces are designed as explorations for various electronic controls including use in military garb (hey it's Georgia Tech).… Continue

Developed by Ashwin Rajan and Kevin Cannon, Frontline gloves are a ges… Continue

In December Syuzi wrote about the first Intimacy dress by Daan Roosegaarde, fashion designer… Continue