Tuesday, February 20, 2007
edoc laundry - clothes with hidden messages and codes
Our gear tells secrets. Woven into everything we make are hidden messages and codes most people can’t see. Edoc clothes break across the traditional categories of street, skate/surf, and classic by creating a new category that spans our entire line: Covert. Every piece of gear is a trapdoor into a hidden world
Smart fabric interfaces on show at 3GSM
For the consumer market, Eleksen is presenting a range of ready-to-integrate solutions and wearable touchpad designs which integrate into apparel and soft-goods accessories like bags, briefcases and backpacks.
Those on display will include: a five-button Bluetooth mobile phone and iPod remote; five-button ElekTex touchpads and controllers for iPod, SonyEricsson Walkman phones and volume controllers for any audio device; and an advanced iPod control with embedded LEDs.
SlopeStyle
Marrying the elements of extreme sports and urban couture with smart and high perfomance textiles, our collaborative has developed a functional and fashionable athletic jacket concept and prototype. Digital pictures from a camera phone or PDA can be transmitted directly, or downloaded wirelessly from the internet, to a display embedded in the jacket.
Lighted Hats: Enlighted Illuminated Clothing
illuminated clothing and other glowing creations by Janet Hansen
Monday, February 19, 2007
The Soft Electric by Grace Kim
The Soft Electric is an exploration in wearable fashion technology, designed by Grace Kim for her final thesis project at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Grace knit and felted the caplet by hand and embroidered the piece with conductive thread. The thread carries electric current to LEDs that are beaded into the embroidery. The LED beads flicker, acting like a sequin in the light.
Jacket Jacketson
Jacket Jacketson is, originally a wearable musical instrument conceived to be a portable toy for kids.
plastic buttons make sound, a mic and speakers for the kid to discover. It has an interior and desattachable jacket with the cables and stuff to be not removed. The outside jacket is completely washable.