Syuzi's Blog – September 2008 Archive (8)

Smart Textiles

Kathy Schicker is a textile designer working with new and smart yarns that emit, reflect or react to light, including reflective, phosflurescent and photochromic yarns. These were woven using both traditional techniques and advanced technology – often hand woven on digital Jacquard looms. The final products are smart but wireless.…

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Added by Syuzi on September 22, 2008 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Thermosensitive Furniture and Decor

Founded in 2006 by Nuno Ferreira and Erin Hayne, Visual Reference Studio designs installations and furniture using interactive materials such as thermochromatic inks. The concept is rather simple: the act of touching and interacting with the pieces leaves a temporary imprint or presence on the object itself. The design of the pieces themselves are quite lovely.…

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Added by Syuzi on September 22, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Wooden Dimension: Futuristic Fashion

A new kind of future coming from the past, Yuima Nakazato creates clothes, shoes, jewellery and hats that are like pop-up books inspired by aeronautical machines.

Added by Syuzi on September 8, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Dressing Light: Fashion meets Technology

Anke Loh is another fashion designer incorporating technology into fashion. Working with Lumalive technology from Philips, Anke incorporates fiber optics illuminated by LEDs to create fashions that "echo the impressions of two cities, Chicago and… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 8, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Other Earth

Fashion + Architecture have been historically conceptually linked—from the works of Hussein Chalayan to Zaha Hadid. Both disciplines contend with the human body in space and deal with ideas of movement, expression, identity and environment.

Lately, we see more and more architects and fashion designers integrating live and animated skins on both… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 4, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

BlinkM: The Smart LED

Got my hands on a few BlinkMs today! These tiny RGB LEDs are such a breeze to program their color sequence thanks to the super simple interface developed by ThingM—aka Mike Juniavsky and Tod Kurt .

You do need an… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 3, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Wearable Forest

Wearable Forest by Ryoko Ueoka and Hiroki Kobayashi was THE highlight of this year's Siggraph as far as wearables are concerned. This poetic piece of"bio-acoustic" clothing is networked with a subtropical forest of the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. The garment, outfitted with embedded speakers, LEDs, an embedded CPU system, and a wireless

connection, processes and remotely plays the soundscape of the jungle. The LEDs create patterns on… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 2, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Invisible Street Light

Often technology is inspired by nature but , in Invisible Street Light, JONGOH LEE from South Korea, intertwines technology directly with nature. Instead of standard street lights, Jongoh Less proposes a much more elegant solution: luminous solar-powered and LED encrusted leaves that gather the suns rays during the day and emit light as the night. This design concept will transform any ordinary park into an enchanted garden.

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Added by Syuzi on September 1, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments