Featured Blog Posts – September 2010 Archive (11)

Color and Change: Amy Winter's Smart Collection

Amy Winters

I often feel like an evangelist championing the cause of wearable technology and smart textiles every time I present a talk at a fashion event (vs the usual tech conference). My colleagues in the fashion industry are typically hesitant — even resistant — to embrace wearable tech and quickly delegate it to the realm of kitsch, costume design, or, at best, the action sports industry.

I find myself standing in the sidelines telling them to… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 30, 2010 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

DJ Hoodie

Developed by Mika Satomi and Clemens Pichler, DJ Hoodie is a pair of conjoined wearables that allow two performers to engage in a DJ battle.

Mixing the old with the new, the hoodies function as a wearable interface used to sample and alter sounds from cassette tapes.

Knit Stretch Sensor

The performers are… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 28, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Knits Illuminated with Light

Rhyme & Reason Illuminated Fashion

Mary Huang's latest collection for her haute tech fashion label "Rhyme & Reason" dishes out an entirely new attitude toward knits: distinctly feminine designs illuminated (literally) with light.

Rhyme & Reason Illuminated Fashion

Ms. Huang drapes light across the body as if it were an invisible layer of sheer fabric, adding dimension, volume and texture. The… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 23, 2010 at 6:35pm — No Comments

The Voice Knitter: Clothing Knit from the Sound of Your Voice

Trikoton

Trikoton is a berlin-based fashion house that poetically fuses fashion, technology and culture to create custom knits. Trikoton "transfers voices into clothes" by converting the frequency bands of an audio message into binary codes for custom knitting patterns.

Trikoton

Customers create their voice pattern via an online flash interface and the custom pattern… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 20, 2010 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Wearable Tech Roundup Maker Faire NYC

Maker Faire NYC

Maker Faire NYC is less than a week away! I'm excited for all of you who are able to attend and, for those who can't (like myself) — don't worry — we will have coverage of the Faire in the upcoming weeks.

There is an amazing body of work in wearable technology that will be on display. I've scoured the schedule and created a list of Makers and their amazing projects for… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 19, 2010 at 6:20pm — No Comments

Fabrickit from Studio5050

Fabrickit

Fabrickit, a new e-textile development kit from Studio 5050, will be launched at the Maker Faire NYC.

Fabrickit

The kit is a fairly simple e-textile kit that allows you to add LEDs to textiles. What separates FabricKit from the Lilypad and Aniomagic family is that the FabricKit system forgoes the use of… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

Participate in the Maker Faire NYC Wearable Computing and eTextile Fashion Show

Maker Faire Extextile Show

Here's a great opportunity to meet your fellow makers and show off your wearable projects at the Maker Faire NYC Wearable Computing and eTextile Fashion Show. You do not need to have a Maker Faire Booth Application - just the willingness to walk the runway and share your talents with other Makers.

Details Below or find them… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 15, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Workshop: Textiles and Electrionics

Textile Sensor

For the next few weeks New York city is the place to be to get your e-textile fix. This Friday, September 17th, make sure to check out Sara and Lara Grant's workshop on felted textile sensors and electronics. These brilliant ladies will show you how to create textile sensors and integrate them with simple signal processing circuits for controlling sound output. Make sure you check out their website Felted… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 15, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The Masai Dress by Studio 5050

The Masai Dress is an older project developed at Studio 5050 but since I just discovered the video (above) I thought it was worth a post.

The garment uses traces of conductive thread and metallic beads to trigger the playback of sound.

I appreciate this project's low tech approach. Rather than using an accelerometer to detect motion, the Masai Dress uses "motion sensors" developed from beads and… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 14, 2010 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Sensor Suit for Modern Dance Performance

Dancers have been some of the earliest adopters of wearable technology, embedding sensors in costumes typically to trigger playback of media.

Often in these high-tech dance performances it is difficult to decipher the "cause and effect", resulting in a seemingly superfluous use of technology.

Standing Waves, a performance system that uses wearable sensors allowing a dancer to control sound, is a rare example of a dance performance that poetically… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 13, 2010 at 10:29am — No Comments

Illuminated Sculptural Costumes

Lianna Sheppard

Lianna Sheppard sculpts bold and beautiful sculptural forms anchored around the human body. In her recent project for her MA at Kingston University, she created origami-inspired costumes that fold, pleat and illuminate. The lighting projections add a poetic and ephemeral dimension to an otherwise minimal and severely… Continue

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