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"At first glance, a cloth bag may seem an unlikely security device. But if it's made from a new, electronic fabric, it could not only resist tampering, but sound off an alarm or send an alert...
Virtual Keyboard Title: Virtual Keyboard
plawa sells a keyboard that is made of light only (and a little gadget that generates the light). However, it would be cool to display some figures on textiles and build some features around it. The...
Read my mind Title: Read my mind
"... then open my browser, afterwards write a blog-entry about this new product." Looks like NeuroSky produced such a wonderful tool that can read your mind and let you control other units...
Underwater Title: Underwater
For all of us who think it's maybe too hot today to work in the office space and that sunday is not the day to be in the office at all - it might be time to go swimming and......
WiFi Tracking Title: WiFi Tracking
Smartmobs writes about a WiFi Tracking system to find stolen computers within the blink of an eye. The system tracks metropolitan areas only but even there I can imagine other services becoming...
HighTex and the MotoGP Title: HighTex and the MotoGP
Grado zero espace is an italian fashion company that works together with the European Space Agency and developed a anatomic cooling system that is also used for the MotoGP (where italians lead the...
Psymbiote - a Cyborg overview Title: Psymbiote - a Cyborg overview
A pretty interesting lecture and demo on creative cybernetic research and a "short" overview of CyBorgs in science, media and todays reality. "The Psymbiote: Hybrid Apparatus For Social...
Kraftwerk and the future Title: Kraftwerk and the future
it's sunday again: I just bought the "Minimum-Maximum" CD from Kraftwerk (amazing), the german electro music pioneers. The first song is "Die Mensch-Maschine" (the man machine)...
sensing textiles Title: sensing textiles
Eleksen is the world's only supplier of integrated fabric switching and sensing solutions. They use it mostly to control music player and things like that. But I appreciate the idea to let things...
IFAWC Title: IFAWC
The second IFAWC (International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing) was held in Zurich some month ago. Some of the presentations are available now. One of them gives a great overview of the biggest...
The army Title: The army
Many technologies where explored first for military use. Btw, I'll travel to Florence next week, one of the capitals of the renaissance. This innovative age brought the gunpowder to europe. 500...
Intel experiments Title: Intel experiments
News.com gives an overview of Intel's activities in the field of sensor, wireless and wearable technologies. Among those experiments are - a bed that monitors health related data of your baby...
Xybernaut Title: Xybernaut
Xybernaut is in trouble. The "Lead Plaintiff Deadline" was yesterday and because the company brings no relevant information on their website it might be interesting to read about the...
greetings from the future Title: greetings from the future
When I saw this bag it came to my mind that somewhere in the future when wearable computing is daily reality people might want that. It will show them how gadgets looked like before they all...
BodyMedia Title: BodyMedia
Forbes writes about BodyMedia, a six years "old" Pittsburgh based company that produces wearable computing products for the healthcare sector. For example armband monitors with six sensors...
Grokster and Wearable Computing Title: Grokster and Wearable Computing
"Any day now, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down the most important decision of the digital age in the MGM v. Grokster case." What has this to do with Wearable Computing? SmartMobs...
RFID intermediary Title: RFID intermediary
Between the barcode and the RFID: A company called InkSure got patents on a technology to print low-cost chipless RFID's on products. The relation is $0.001 per barcode tag and from 25c to 10$ for...
Product overview Title: Product overview
The Gizmag is an amazing source about techwear products. Under the category "Wearable Electronics" they list a lot of them. But even more you'll get a deep insight into each product and...
Infineon spin-off Title: Infineon spin-off
Infineon announced the management buy-out of Interactive Wear AG i.G., thats the former unit who produced a mp3-and mobil jacket together with O'Neill. Interactive Wear was founded pretty fast...
ARS Electronica Title: ARS Electronica
The ARS electronica is one of the most important hightech- culture events in the world. In the category "the next idea" artist under the age of 27 give us an idea of how they see the future...
Wireless low-cost interface Title: Wireless low-cost interface
The future of RFID? The potential to make currrent RFID's obsolete? Interesting student project for summer term 2005: "In contrast to RFIDs, where the tag side is always an autonomous system...