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I'm a bit late with this entry but I saved the site in my browser because it's that damned cool.. A display so thin that you can even wear it. The technology is electroluminescent. "In...
I'm sure you know the movie Minority Report and you'll remember the interface Tom Cruise uses to navigate in all the information he needs to build a story from the mind pictures. The...
I wonder why I have'nt noticed these shoes before.. However, Gizmag presents what they call the Cinderella Shoe that is in fact an electric weapon. The picture left shows how it works. If you...
Some time to tinker over the weekend? Why not build your own textile switch? You maybe want to integrate something into your clothing and need to switch it on or off? For example a lamp? With this...
The wearable air guitar is in the news everywhere so here is another one - but much older - concept. It's reminds me to the times of synthi-pop and wave: Dubbed "Miburi" and released by...
Imagine you play air guitar wearing jeans and t-shirt - but you really produce music! That's whats possible since monday (but in a first easy application). The T-shirt has motion sensors built...
How to get a name into the press that is relevant not until 2009? Create a strange but cool fashion show! Rocketplane Kistler is one of the (US) companies that plans to offer space tours for the usual...
Imagine a dress that reacts to your body and emotions. Just like in a fairy tale you would immediately think that magic comes true would'nt you? This is what designer Berzowska from Montreal calls...
Very very cool is: Philips. Often enough I had this thought the last years but now they kick it. The company designer play around with an old idea from me: Clothes that show the emotion of the wearer....
The Oktoberfest is the most famous beer-fest in the world and so typical German. The last days I heard a podcast about the point that less people wear the traditional Bavarian clothes at the...
I found something pretty cool at gizmag. Who would have thought that good old Dick Tracy (75 years now) was such a future men?! I mean the comic was ok, not my favorite and the soundtrack from Madonna...
Something here reminds me to the movie Matrix- and that things come true. An Infineon spin-off can produce electric power from your body. The basic technology is called "Peltier Cooler" (see...
I found the perfect entry for the weekend at the Gadget Weblog: The right App for our mobile society. From now on you'll need no babysitter for your pet - if you're away for a day or so just...
Everyone knows and loves car navigation systems. Now you can imagine how cool a personal navigation system would be. Most of all this one: the Georgia Institute of Technology presents SWAN - the...
Even at the worlds biggest consumer electronics fair in September in Berlin we will see a Wearable Fashion show named "eFashion" (I guess it will be part of the Science show. However, till...
The great wearable and interface designer from CuteCircuit developed a wedding dress for a Swedish couple. They build many nice ideas "inside" like environmentally friendly and smart,...
I can hardly go online these days so just find this "picture of the day" from WMMNA a life sign of me ;-) Love that pic - I just wonder for years who still needs those little phone boxes...
In a smoky crowded bar in Casablanca, you urgently need to pass a secret message to your compatriot friend. There are too many ears, and too many eyes - but shaking hands looks normal! So, you shake...
Something for the category "freaky". Thanko presents a glove you can heat via USB. U know - when it's damn cold in the office because the boss' window is open while he is away or...
What summer fun: a wearable canoe that is a gorgeous dress at the same time. But the reason to developed it has some more brain than only good-looking: Just after the storm in New Orleans, she...
Think-A-Move developed a headset that includes a microfone. How it works: tongue movements, speech and even thoughts create minute but distinct air pressure changes in the ear canal. More here....
First I thought it's nonsense but then.. My second thought was that I need this shirt right now. It's around 90 or more degree here for the last two weeks. This shirt is air conditioned and...
Darla Mack talked about it yesterday and here it is: tomorrow is an ebay auction for a very rare piece of techwear jewellery. The Nokia Medallion 1 was produced in limited numbers only and production...
Next step for Apple to become a fashion company: Nike and Apple connect sport shoe and iPod. It means nothing less then the age of techwear has finally begun. And the big bang is a gadget and clothes...
The "global" in GPS becomes local. Sport enthusiasts all over the world not only measure their heart rate but every information they can get. The scientist in you wants to know everything...
Want to know how you look in 6 month? The Persuasive Mirror - a mirror collecting information from webcams, fridge use or time spend on the couch to calculate your future weight. An interface to your...
That's something for girls.. Unbelievable amounts of USB sticks in even more unbelievable forms have been build the last years. But most of them were for men. This design is not. I have no idea...
Cool new iPod garments for this summer. A friend sent me the link to Urban Tool - supernatural wear. I liked the word "supernatural" in combination with techwear. When they use the word...
This is the WOW winner 2005 in the section Scenic Circle Hotels Bizarre Bra Section Highly Commended. Ok, its bizarre but somehow useful.. An emergency bra especially for men. An inflatable emergency...
whisper is a large project which includes a range of skills and competencies from hardware and electronic design, to software engineering and programming, to physical space design, to data...
Or strange headset design - but somehow fascinating. Here is your "Headset with attitude" The Synapse has twin earpieces with individual touch-sensitive controls, is mutable with a single...
Emotions send as easy as a text message. Two people wearing the hug shirt can send a hug every time they think about each other over every distance. Embedded in the shirt there are sensors that feel...
An older entry from WMMNA but love it and think its thrilling: "The garments receives the heartbeat wavelength of your remote friend/lover/relative and transmits it as vibration through your...
That's something for sundays - a special tie. Not - as you may think - to small to tie around your neck. Nope - it's a small and hidden place for your iPod. While in a boring business meeting...
Funny things happen in this world. For example people who implant a RFID chip for different reason. Anita gives us an overview of these subcultures. One example I knew before are people in Barcelona...
Are you game? Clothes tell something about you. Everyone can see your stile, your profession, even your character. Clothes are in a way a social interface. And whats more "social" than to...
Are you game? Clothes tell something about you. Everyone can see your stile, your profession, even your character. Clothes are in a way a social interface. And whats more "social" than to...
What is the perfect start into 2006? Animals! I love cats. And dogs. And others do to... Or not?So here it is: the first mobile for your pet. The PetsCellTM - the first voice enabled waterproof GPS...
Someday your money will talk to you... The media convergence is well-known. For example TV and computer grow together. The same happens to our money. The use of electronic money like credit cards or...
Unbelievable: a real-world event in spain copies the typical jump&run action computer games using RFID and other wearable technologies.The area is huge where people try to escape a virtual...
You probably already heard about this easy idea to stop RFID from sending information. It reminds me to a print advertising, showing that the US spent millions to produce a ball-pen that works in...
Sometimes you would'nt believe what kind of products are successful. Remember the scrolling belt I wrote about some month ago? Now you see it all over germany and supposably in US too. It's...
Interesting effect: When you fill it with hot liquid, the text slowly vanishes, simulating the effect of the Bush presidency. Would be nice to see this effect on a T-shirt. Perhaps while busy or...
Next there at the Parenting Weblog (yes, I'm a father too ;-) Melissa presents cute little onesies. Beside the fact that I'm a really proud owner of the new iPod nano and that my sons are way...