Featured Blog Posts – October 2010 Archive (13)

Diana Eng Technology Fashion Show: Maker Faire NYC 2010

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The Great Hall in the New York Hall of Science building was a fitting venue for Diana Eng's Maker Faire NYC technology fashion show. The cathedral ceilings and backdrop of stained glass windows gave the show an ethereal feel, as if one were praying at the alter of wearable technology.

Diana Eng describes her collection… Continue

Added by Geri-Ayn Gaul on October 31, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Symposium on Fashion & Technology at STRP

Premsela, the Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, will present a symposium on Fashion and Technology at STRP Festival in Eindhoven next month. The symposium hosts several speakers including artist Lucy McRae, fashion designer… Continue

Added by Melissa Coleman on October 27, 2010 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Sensible Music makes you feel the bass

Industrial Design graduate Stefan Zwegers collaborated with the Dutch Hearing Society to create earphones that will make you feel the bass in your music without ruining your ears. Sensible Music filters the low tones of the music on your mp3-player and uses vibration motors to create the tactile sensation of sound. The product… Continue

Added by Melissa Coleman on October 26, 2010 at 2:55pm — 4 Comments

Chicks on Speed - Eshoe

Stage wear has strongly influenced the evolution of implemented technologies into our clothes. The interesting part is that most of the time the functional aspect of it is not highly studied, but the visual rendings with lights, movements are rather offering to the audience clothes that are performing as much as the artist on stage. From Lady Gaga to other… Continue

Added by Melissa Marie on October 26, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Fashion Tech events at the Barbican

On 11 November 2010 the Barbican in London will host two events on the subject of fashion and technology: Future Fabric and What Future Fashion Fabrication? Both events are on simultaneously so it looks like FashionTech lovers will have to choose between the… Continue

Added by Melissa Coleman on October 19, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

El Wire Bracelet

This EL Wire bracelet is cool and relatively easy to make Many components of this project are developed and distribuited by http://www.plugandwear.com and http://www.inntex.com companies

The metal fabrics use for this project are made of 316L stainless steel, copper, brass

The body of the bracelet… Continue

Added by LMarchesi on October 14, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Disney's High-tech Couture Tron Swag

Disney and couture typically aren't used in the same sentence — and, if their recent TRON: Legacy couture line is any evidence, they frankly shouldn't be. So let me back up by saying, I am a HUGE Tron fan. I'm even diligently working on my Quorra costume for Halloween. The illuminated costumes in Tron Legacy look absolutely amazing (… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 14, 2010 at 10:38am — 1 Comment

Mathematical Fashion

132 5. Issey Mikake

"132 5. Issey Mikake" is Miyake's latest innovation that explores novel fashion manufacturing methods using emerging technologies.

132 5. Issey Mikake

"1" signifies a single piece of fabric; "3" and "2" refer to the three-dimensional shape which can be flattened into a two-dimensional form; and "5" is a reference to the fifth dimension. The fifth… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 13, 2010 at 1:35pm — No Comments

New Lilypad Components

New Lilypad Arduino Components

Sparkfun recently released a few new Lilypad components adding to the growing library of Lilypad Arduino gear.

The most significant development is the LilyPad Arduino Simple Board ($19.95). The difference between the Simple Board vs the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 11, 2010 at 12:13pm — 2 Comments

Programmable LED Umbrella

Anyone want to be "fireworks" for Halloween? Well I've got the best tutorial for you...

This remarkable LED umbrella is creating from an 8x8 matrix of LEDs sewn using conductive thread. In addition, the project uses a MAX7219 LED Controller, a voltage converter and an arduino mini pro.

Best part... it's an Instructable so you can learn to make one yourself… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 11, 2010 at 11:15am — 2 Comments

Pseudomorphs: dresses that paint themselves

Pseudomorphs is a system that lets dresses paint themselves. Following Intimacy, Dutch haute-tech designer Anouk Wipprecht continues her work on the theme of transformation, this time using the sensual properties of moving… Continue

Added by Melissa Coleman on October 5, 2010 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Under the Surface

Marisa Ranalli's "Under the Surface" garment was inspired by sea creatures — jellyfish, urchins and even puffer fish— and their unique self-defense mechanisms.

Ranalli incorporated nitinol "spines", felted in wool, into a wafty, hand-painted two-piece dress that involuntarily reacts when the wearers "personal space is invaded."…

Nitinol dress