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Here's a great tutorial by Benjamin Zaitlen on how to make your own Lilypad Persistence of Vision wristband.

As Zaitlen explains:
"Persistence of Vision (POV) is the illusion that an image continue… Continue

Designed by the sister duo Sarah and Lara Grant , Fortune Teller is a novel interface designed to work with the Arduino controller and Max/Msp. It is constructed from hand-made conductive… Continue

I'd like to invite everyone to a core conversation that the lovely Alison Lewis from Ihearswitch.com and I are hosting as SXSW titled “Duh…It’s Like Tech for Girls <3.”

Information below:

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Melissa Coleman developed a series of beautiful interactive textiles during her artist-in-residency at V2_. Her project titled Medi… Continue

Happy Friday Everyone. Just wanted to give you a bit of creative inspiration to take you into your weekend.

Rimambelle is laser cut shawl that uses a repetitive 2D pattern to create beautiful, 3D shawl.

The pattern is a simple square of 7x7cm with incisions, cut out 80 times in a… Continue

Nice tutorial on how to make a mitten that lights up when you hold hands, shake hands or give some-one a "high-five."

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E-static Shadows is a woven electronic textile, developed by Zane Berzina, that responds to electrostatic charges. Designed with hundreds of hand-soldered LED lights, transistors and a woven electronic circuit, the e… Continue

Happy Monday ya'all! OSLOOM (open source loom) is a fabulous project that could use your support.
Your contributions can be as little at $1 to kickstart the R&D of this project & at a $15 pledge you receive a laser cut cardboard loom. Pretty cool!

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Beautiful wool (?) bag decorated with LEDs and yo-yos by Grace Kim.
What a beautiful project to inspire you to make something this week.

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This week Diana Eng presented the Fairytale Fashion Collection, fashions that use technology to create magical clothing, at Eyebeam.

The collection consisted of fashions that illuminate, change colors and transform shapes. My personal favorite was the deployable hoodie whose hood expands and collapses as a result of its origami structure.

The Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection can be found online at… Continue

Nate & Kirk Mueller teamed up to teach "Seamless", an introductory wearables technology course at RISD: The Rhode Island School of Design. From dresses that unzip themselves to sound sensitive fashions, the course produced some nicely designed experiments and investigations in high-tech fashion.… Continue

I become absolutely overjoyed when my favorite fashion designers employ the tiniest bit of technology into their collections. Rodarte, the two scissor sisters of voluminous deconstructed clothes, adorned their models for their Fall 2010 collection with these spectacular illu… Continue

Katharina Bredies, a research scientist at the DeutscheTelekom Laboratories, developed an intricately hand-made wea… Continue

Lovely collection of soft and flexible circuit prototypes by the e-textile mavens Emily Lovell, Leah Buechley and Hannah Perner-Wilson from the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab.

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Hello All,

Here is a wonderful opputinity from Prix Ars Electronics to receive a grant and support for your wearable projects.
I highly encourage all of you to apply. Make me proud!

Deadline: March 5, 2010… Continue

Valérie Lamontagne has developed three fantastical networked fashions inspired by the peculiar fairy tale by Charles Perrault in which a young princess, to avoid marrying a king, demands impossible dresses made of the sun, the moon and the s… Continue

Conductive textiles have been used to create a number of novel interactive musical instruments but Lara Grant's use of the sewing machine as a musical instrument is by far one of my favorites.

Lara modified a sewing machine so that the needle and conductive piece of fabric that is being sewn functions as a switch. Every time the needle makes a stitch it also plays a note.

Additionally, the machine can record and play back m… Continue

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Recently I've been thinking a lot about the role wearable technology can play in sustainability. This was mostly triggered by an article Is Wearable Technology Hype or Hope that I wrote for

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Chicago-based designer Anke Loh is known for her early experimentations in wearable technology. Earlier projects such as "Dressing Light" (2006) used Philips Lumalive fabrics to craft garments with weara… Continue