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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

'When two objects or people touch, they exchange electric charge.'

"barbwired", developed by artist Ewelina Aleksandrowicz, is a conceptual sound performance piece that literally and metaphorically uses the "energy" exchange between two individuals t… Continue

Want a free swatch of Luminex fabric and a copy of Alison Lewis's amazing book "Switch Craft"?

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A soft vest with an oversized collar, Detectair senses, alerts and protects wearers from environmental toxins in the atmosphere.

Designed by Industrial design students Genevieve Mateyko and… Continue

Wearable tech hits the red carpet at the Grammys with Imogen Heap's Twitter Dress. The dress is once again thanks to Moritz Waldemeyer who most recently developed… Continue

Check out this amazing knitcrocheted critter titled "RoboKnit: Hello, World" created by Osamu Iwasaki and Hanakomet. Th… Continue

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to point to a new section — Call for Artists — that I added over this past weekend. The section will contain calls for participati… Continue

I've been to every Bay Area Maker Faire in the past few years both as a "maker" and, last year, as a mere pedestrian. I can tell you whether or not you participate in the faire or run around all day looking at the amazing things your fellow makers have made, it's exhilarating. Also overwhelming… Continue

Hello Everyone,
I'm thrilled to welcome Fashioning Technology's FIRST guest blogger Angela Sheehan.

She is fortunate enough to be attending the TEI Conference which… Continue

Simple and lovely coat embedded with LEDs by Wendy Legro. I love the simplicity of using folds and tucks in the fabric to create illuminated spaces in the coat design.

Fabrikan from roma on Vimeo.

I've seen plenty of stills of Fabrican, the sprayable instant textile, for years now. The technology was patented nearly a decade ago and yet hasn't found its place in the market. When it first emerged, it caught the imagination of many a designer interested in super-syntheti… Continue

Translucent strands of fiber optics and conductive fibers are integrated with blades of grass to create an illuminated, interactive landscape.

I can imagine walking across a field of grass early in the morning and having trails of light pool around me with each step.

There is certainly something magical in the interactive sod concept created by Frits Stam.

Personally, I'm looking forward to large environmen… Continue

Building on yesterday's post for a momentary escape from a public environment, Veasyble is a set of wearable accessories that screen the eyes, ears, face and upper body, providing a space for intimacy.

A bag unfolds cocooning the entire body; a… Continue

Kerry Jia Yi Lin with her experimental project "hermit" blurs the space between the public and private by offering individuals a personal refuge in a communal environment.

Designed specifically for use at a public table, Hermit is a kinetic shell that provides the user tem… Continue

We've had plants that tweet ; unborn babies that tweet ; and even our power consumption can be tweet… Continue

Mathematics and fashion aren't necessarily strange bedfellows. The craft of pattern making and transforming 2D flats into three-dimenionsal garments does require an understanding of basic arithmetics.

LISA SHAHNO's latest collection "SQUA… Continue

Considering my 2010 predictions were centered around networked wearables, I would like to introduce you to the Fibonacci Purse, developed by ITP student Elizabeth Fuller.

The Fibonacci Purse is an interesting example… Continue

Icha-Icha! Thumb Wrestling from jarashi on Vimeo.

To end this week, I'm happy to feature a quirky and playful prototype of a pair of finger wrestling puppets, Icha-Icha!

The puppets make sounds and use vibration as a form of haptic feedback to make the battle more exciting. An LED in the puppets face changes its level of brightness accordingly to reflect the… Continue

Magnhild Disington is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on material experimentation and developing materials for visual trend ana… Continue

The transition from one look to another may be as simple as the snap of a button. "Jurk" is an innovative collection of transformative fashion created by eefiene as research on different ways to connect a garment. A set of custom holes and pins were designed to easily s… Continue