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Fibre2fashion published a huge report about fibres in the 21st century written by Prof. T.K.Sinha, Yogita Agrawal, Rupa Mohanta and Rupali Kapoor. The whole thing is really comprehensive. Here is the...
The Emotional Wardrobe is a London, UK, based project for research about what I call the "Social Interface". They differ between three dimensions of the topic: The three themes we have...
Wearable was a topic at CNN and beside many known things we find a lot of new and interesting projects listed there. Wearable computing also has a natural home in the world of gaming. Nintendo's...
Talked about the crazy cool Exoskeleton from Cyberdyn a while ago now they get "big pockets" ;-) Daiwa House Industry Co said Thursday it has contributed 1 billion yen (about 8,316,008 US...
The Orange County Register gives us a current view of the market of wearable electronics that has some great insights: In Orange County, no fewer than nine action sports brands are selling or working...
Part I - What drives the world? Convergence is probably the word of the century. Convergence of technologies, convergence of media etc. But what's about the structures behind these trends? What...
The Sentinel Online writes a kind-of-review about the Techwear market. It's not complete but faces some interesting details. Let's start here: Intelligent textiles, variously known as smart...
Some trends reported from the ISPO (huge fashion fair) and the Outdoor (huge outdoor fashion fair): Portable technology is now being developped by several brands. +++ LEVI'S has launched a line of...
While others try to start into the era of ubiquitous computing - Japan tries harder. The country wants to become the lead in the Ubiquitous Economy. And their chances are quite good because they have...
Eleksen is featured with the The G-Tech wireless fabric keyboard at the House of the Future. The keyboard is on display as the ultimate portable accessory for smartphone users. Roll it up, put it in...
The web becomes mobile - no question. Beside W-LAN there are many other technologies. With more and easier ways to connect always to the net the web becomes interesting for more target groups. There...
Where is the fitness industry going? Gadgets, gadgets, wearable. Thats the key-message from "The Raw Story". The experts see a huge trend to more equipment. Even if they think that not all...
Short, but useful: ZDNet writes about success factors in the gadget business based on a new book. George Bailey and Hagen Wenzek recently wrote the book "Irresistible! Markets, Models and...
Korea see's the future of their textile industry in smart textiles. They set up a five year R&D program for smart textiles with the same founding Germany did this year ($15.5 million)....
Ok - it's not a complete view over Asia and Korea but short and insightful. Not a week ago I blogged elsewhere about the fact that China Mobile is the biggest mobile company in the world (Vodafone...
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 BMBF is the education and research ministry of Germany. And they decided to spend 15 Mill. € for projects in Wearable Computing and Techwear. The ministry already received over 50 project ideas...
Part IV - Wearable Computing today Read Part I (Something has changed) here, Part II (Look into a tomorrows industry) here and Part III (Markets you should look at) here Back to the branch...
Part III - Markets you should look at Read Part I (Something has changed) here and Part II (Look into a tomorrows industry) here The B2C market is easy to describe: gadgets like your mobile or the...
Part II - Look into a tomorrows industry Read Part I here And that's where the industry is right now. Many companies are already busy with wearable applications. The public view may be that...
Something new 4u: Today I had my first interview - yep - and timing and person are just right I think. Read what John Collins from Eleksen has to say about the future of wearable computing and the...
Nanotechnology still sounds pretty hip and "future". But companies like Nano Tex prove that it's already around us. MSNBC.com gives a short overview and talk about Sensatex too. Now,...
What are the motivators to buy gadgets? Functionality? Feature? Comfort? Not really. Some of you may know that I run an ad company.Thats why markets and marketing is part of my job. What I learned is...
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...
Just a note about a TV show in Europe that broadcasted an overview about hightech textiles. First of all, in future Europe can not compete in the traditional textiles business. These materials (like...
The best ideas are easy like this one found at WMMNA. A jacket that shows you the point of the compass. It's nothing revolutionary but the design is still great and seamless. It's not "a...
"Be a Freeporter": social behavior changes because of new technologies. In the next years mobile solutions will be the key driver for this process. Look at all the mobile phones with camera...
Sometimes it's more then interesting (and fun too) to go back in time and check what kind of predictions people made. I found one of those market predictions from 2002. You may think the data is...
Social behavior is kinda basic know how for designer. Motorola presents the next key word for a generation: "Here". This is the result of a global study. In their own words: Motorola's...
Want to know what our future will be about? Friedemann Mattern, director of the institute for "Pervasive Computing" from the ETH Zurich talks about "Ambient Intelligence" and...
Sorry, but sometimes I dont understand the US way to handle a patent. One good example. I think that it makes sense to use wearable computing technologies for toys. But whenever you think about a...
Third and last part of mobiles and Wearable Computing. Here are some more interesting ideas from the current issue of Pervasive Computing. One article is called "ContextPhone: A Prototyping...
What makes mobiles so interesting when it comes to wearable computing? The new issue of Pervasive Computing gives an answer. As promised yesterday a short overview or you: Pervasive Computing compares...
The new issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing is about mobiles and how they already work as ubiquitous computer. From my view all gadgets are a kind of "in-between". That means between personal...
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...
"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...
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 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...
How digital technology will sew itself into the fabric of future fashions was the subject of a recent talk at the London College of Fashion (LCF), entitled 'Interrogating Fashion: New Paradigms...
Music is such an integral part of fashion today, i wonder if we will see a real wearable computing solution till end of the year. Sorry, nope, the typical products are nice, but not yet...