Featured Blog Posts – June 2010 Archive (16)

Hysterical Bubble

Hysterical Bubbles

"Hysterical Bubble" is a beautifully designed and executed wearable performance art project dealing with themes of conformity, social identity and group dynamics.

Designed by artist Anja Hertenberger, "Hysterical Bubble" consists of four suits each adorned with an embroidered inflatable textile bubble. The suits are "aware" of each other's proximity and react by inflating or… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Posture Monitoring Wearable

From ergonomic keyboards to furniture, designers have been trying to resolve the problem of occupational injuries by developing products that help users maintain "healthy" postures.

BACKUP, a wearable concept by Vanessa Schauer, aims to prevent such injuries by coaching wearers to adopt new behaviors and "memorize" healthy body posture.…

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Added by Syuzi on June 28, 2010 at 1:40pm — 1 Comment

Dyeing Conductive Fabric

Colored Conductive Fabric

Since it's been a slow past few weeks and I've had a bit of difficulty finding interesting wearables related content, for the next few days I'm going to share a few experiments that I've personally been working on.

First topic — dyeing conductive fabric.

Last night I dyed small swatches of conductive fabric and it turned out quite lovely. I used the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 23, 2010 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Interview with Cute Circuit

Nice interview with Cute Circuit founders Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz by Grazia Magazine. Plus you get a preview of their Twirkle… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 22, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Lilypond: New Soft CIrcuits Project Sharing Portal

Lilypond—Etextiles Community

Sorta like an Instrcutables for e-textiles, Lilypond is an online community targeted at individuals interested in sharing their soft circuit projects.

The site looks like it's still under construction but it's currently been populated with a number of simple, introductory projects for beginners.

The project is developed by the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 21, 2010 at 10:05am — 2 Comments

Electronic Textiles and Soft Sensors Workshop!

E-textile

I will be holding an e-textile and soft sensor workshop Sunday, 27 June 2010, 12p-3p at CrashSpace in Los Angeles.

This course will introduce you to an exciting new palate of conductive threads and fabrics — some of which aren't commercially available. Unique properties and qualities of each material will be discussed.

You will learn how to construct your own textile… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 21, 2010 at 9:45am — No Comments

Bringing Wearable Tech to Market

Twirkle T — Cute CIrcuit

It's 2010 and we're yet to see wearables make it to market. It's been five years since I became enamored with fashion and technology and, as far as careers are concerned, perhaps that's not a very long time. It just feels like a long time especially when the conversation around wearables and manufacturing has not shifted one bit.

At every e-textiles and wearables conference I have attended in the past four years, everyone from… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 18, 2010 at 11:41am — No Comments

Interactive Soft Circuits and eTextiles Workshop with Arduino Lilypad in Berkeley, California

Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, 2010

"In this hands-on weekend workshop we will cut, sew, weave, knit, felt and layer specialized electrotextiles, conductive threads and conventional electronics to create interactive soft circuits for wearables, musical instruments, jewelry and other responsive systems. We will make e-textile pressure, stretch and position sensors connect them to the Lilypad wearable computing platform and use led's… Continue

Added by Adrian Freed on June 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Body Speaker

Karina van Heck transforms the intimate sounds of our body into an esoteric remix of heart beats and gurgles with her latest project "Body Speaker."

"Body Speaker" consists of a number of sound capturing wearables that amplify and capture the mysterious internal sounds of a body. The device draws the wearer below the surface of his own skin and allows them to investigate and remix the various sounds of his… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 15, 2010 at 3:43pm — 2 Comments

Pleats as Wearable Interface

I love this textile experiment that uses pleats as an interface control. In this example, it is being used to scroll a webpage up & down.

This project was developed at the GVU Center at Georgia… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 10, 2010 at 11:03am — No Comments

Sound Experience: A Viral Exchange of Music

Interactive Fashion

Locative technology combined with wearable technology, on the surface, appears to be a felicitous combination but, like any new and emerging "social" technology, this relationship is mired with concerns regarding privacy. Google Facebook privacy controversy and you'll get a clear picture as to the complexity of the current debate.

From fears of surveillance to data-mining algorithms, our right to privacy has historically been challenged by… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 9, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Conductive Fabric Drum Sticks for your iPad

Conductive Fabric Drumsticks for your iPad

The conductive fabric drumsticks, aptly named iSticks, were developed by David Ayman Shamma for a music hacking event in San Francisco. His winning entry is available online as a tutorial on Instructables.

The iSticks use a custom designed iPad application… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 7, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Nudgeables — Wearable Tech Accessories to Wirelessly Poke Your Friend

Wearable Tech Accessories

Developed by Kate Hartman and Hazel Meyer, Nudgeables is a fun and quirky project that allows you to poke or nudge a friend from a short distance.

Using X-bee radios, two wearables were developed, a garter and a brooch, that wirelessly communicate with one another.…

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Added by Syuzi on June 4, 2010 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Soft potentiometer

New products and tutorials on PlugandWear! This is a soft potentiometer you can easily connect to your Arduino and use to control a flashing LED, the tone of a buzzer and so on. By sliding the cursor you will get the different values.

Added by Riccardo Marchesi on June 3, 2010 at 11:10pm — No Comments

Wearable Absence

Wearable Absence is an interactive garment that functions as an interface for a database of digital memories.

Through the use of wireless technology and bio-sensors, users of the garment are able to retrieve archived information from an "absent" person's life via a mobile application.

What's interesting about this project is that the user has no real control of when and how they receive these digital memories. The flow of… Continue

Added by Syuzi on June 3, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Electronic Quilts That Respond To Environment

Mouna Andraos's Winter Quilts are a beautiful blend of traditional crafts and technology. Using e-textiles and soft circuit construction methods, Andrao's developed a set of three quilts that sense and respond to their environment.

Electronic Quilts