July 2008 Blog Posts (12)

Current TV Review on Fashioning Technology

Added by Syuzi on July 31, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Worth of Mouth Interview

Interview about "Fashioning Technology" on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Word of Mouth.”

Read more here. Or sit back and listen. wom-2008-07-30-vp2.wax

Added by Syuzi on July 30, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

New UV bracelets (using photochromic inks) designed to raise awareness of the harmful UV rays from the sun. Available here.

Although this idea is nice concept for a practical application of photochromic inks, I think it's best to put your sunblock on before you step out the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 29, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Sharewear—Wearable Sculptures

SHAREWEAR is a collaboration between British Fashion Designer Di Mainstone and V2_Lab. The project comprises of reconfigurable, electronic dresses that physically slot together to

activate dramatic pools of light. The dresses take influence from modernist and contemporary furniture design.

I love the magnetic mechanical mechanisms used to connect the two dresses together.…

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Added by Syuzi on July 28, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Papermaking + Electronics

Another amazing example of "smart" crafting — Beautiful experimentations embedding paper, electronics and smart… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 23, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Interview on Future Tense

I was interviewed by Jon Gordon, the producer and host of Future Tense.

Follow this link to podcast if you're interested!

Added by Syuzi on July 17, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Futuristic Fashion Predictions from the 1930s

Amusing clip from the 1930s predicting fashion in the year 2000. I love all the fashion + technology references.

via Jordan… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 17, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Fabric LED Matrix

The lovely Leah Buechley has created yet another amazing soft circuit. Using ordinary thread for the top thread and conductive thread for the bobbin, she machine-stitched conductive paths for this fabric LED matrix. The fabric itself behaves as an insulator to prevent the wires from shorting. Each SMD LED then was hand-stitched. It appears that the matrix is being controlled by the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 16, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Felt Resistor

What happens when two apparently disparate crafts — felting and electronics — are intermixed? You get a unique, organic tactile interface to control electronics.

The conductive felt is a creation of Tom Gerhardt from Itp.

Gerhardt explains:

"By 'felting' together natural wool and steel wool, in a process I… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 16, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Upcoming Conference: Next Textile 2008

Nordic Light Hotel, Stockholm, 12 August 2008

What signifies a smart textile and how can we build a centre of excellence and an outstanding environment for creating the future of textiles?

Speakers include:

Smart Textiles; Susanne Edström, Peter Albinsson…

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Added by Syuzi on July 16, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Unisex Thermochromatic T-Shirt from American Apparel

I stumbled into American Apparel yesterday and noticed their new line of Thermochromatic Ts. I was hoping for a more clever use of the inks — perhaps something more thought-provoking akin to Angel Chang's coral tiered dress that reveals a map of Manhattan.

The store was filled with 80s-inspired fashion so… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 15, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Excellent Soft Circuits Blog

For an intense six weeks, Kate Hartman taught an excellent soft circuit workshop at NYU's ITP Program. The results of the workshop are well documented here.

What you''ll find are final project presentations such as the Soft Wall Lamp by Alex Kowal, the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 15, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments