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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...
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...
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...
Looks like we have some results from the huge European project WearIT @Work. And it looks like the field of on-site, real-time trainings with wearable technologies is a coming market. Giunti Labs,...
Part II - VDI/VDE-IT Innovation + Technik GmbH - what is it? The VDI/VDE-IT is located in the middle of the power centers that drive innovation. The company studies research on many places, consults...
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...
WMMNA released an interview with Lalya Gaye from the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute in Göteborg, Sweden. She's an engineer and PhD graduate working in multidisciplinary projects that...
The Philoneist brought my attention to a NASA lab with an interesting field of research. The lab's name is Ames Research Center. Sure, at first I thought this is SciFi because the project he...
Looks like I found the killer-app for the over-stressed manager of today (and many other within the "burn-out-zone"). Medick Healthcare has launched a personal heart monitor called MHM 100....
An interesting idea from scientists is to get energy from biological processes. Now they extracted a protein that may be used as a micro-reactor to produce energy within a biofuel cells. According to...
Before your bone brakes there are different noises. Scientists developed a system that measures this sound and can tell you to stop before it's to late. The researchers are applying the same basic...
Just a reminder that the impressive International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux starts tomorrow and is worth a deeper look at. Even if wednesday starts a bit slow the topics are: #...
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....
Imagine an electrocardiogram without the need to go to the doctor and with much better data. This is what the ECG T-Shirt will be about. It's a research project at the EMPA. This institut works in...
We all know that animals (like we) are moved by bones and muscles - spiders are not. They use a hydraulic system that is much more lightweight. Scientists Carlo Menon and Cristian Lira have developed...
A breakthrough in nanotechnology - that is more important for techwear then ever before: chemists from the University of Arkansas announced the first 3D-form from nanomaterials. The advancement from...
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...
How should I call that: High-High Tech? New research shows that you can control Solitons. The polymer chains tend to bend and twist as solitons pass through them. This has led to the possibility of...
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...
Hurry up! 30th of June is the last day for your submission to the 10. International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland. The idea behind the ISWC Student Colloquium is to...
"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...
Learning from insects eye's - scientist at Berkeley had created a series of artificial compound eyes that could be used to make ultrathin camera phones or wearable cameras. The material they use...
Here is a complete overview of the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD). This technology describes how the source image is projected directly onto the retina. The VRD technology eliminates any screen outside...
I guess you'll find that interesting too: it's just an overview of topics for diploma thesis at the ETH Zurich this summer. It's simply amazing how huge and broad the field of wearable...
Paul Lukowicz is a european veteran in wearable computing and now became head of applied informatics in Passau (University of Passau), Bavaria, Germany. His main field will be embedded systems /...
How about a mask that can display the best way trough a building aflame? Or show different degrees of heat while trying to put the fire out. That's what FIT works on. FIT stands for Fraunhofer...
There is another interesting european research from IST - beside work clothes like yesterday this one focuses on healthcare. What is Wealthy? - The main objective of WEALTHY is to set up a...
Tweakfest is a two day conference about cyber culture in switzerland. Walter Hehl from the IBM research lab was talking about computer in ten years and how they may look like. One of the interesting...
Sometimes they look strange, sometimes cool. IEEE Spectrum presents exoskeletons around the world. Wearable robotic systems in Asia, Europe, and the United States.Sometimes they help us when we lost...
Whats that? It's a generator. And a backpack. And it's for you. A generator not for a power house but for a human being.The easiest idea even in the beginning of wearable computing was to use...
You can now download the C-Lab report about wearable computing in the maintenance sector (16pages, german).C-Lab is the Cooperative Computing & Cooperation Laboratory - works in the area of...
Will high-tech help to save the life of thousend of people? The worldwide german radiostation "Deutschlandfunk" writes about a real life test (german) of wearable computing with a fire...
Wearable computer collect at least a lot of information an dcompute them. Sure. To do so they often need environmental data. One of them is to localize you. And that still a problem. As easy it is for...
A short look to switzerland again, at the wearable computing lab at the ETH Zurich. In summer term 2005 they talked about textiles and electronics for example. The result is a great overview from...
A new idea from the MIT: a wearable application for dogs. We know that the dog is the men's best friend. But who is the friend of your pet? The SNIF (Social Networking in Fur) saves contact dates...
Wired reports about the reality mining cell phone project @ MIT. This report really fits with my "Pervasive Computing with mobiles (part I, II & III) series." Some notes I found...
I heard about the product a while ago but finally found it, the LifeShirt from VivoMetrics. The Shirt "collect and analyze continuous ambulatory physiologic data to enhance pharmaceutical...
The ninth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers will be held end of october in Osaka, Japan. Last date for online registration is July, 18. They expect researchers, product...
Just found a journal that writes about personal and ubiquitous computing and looks pretty interesting. It is published in London by Springer. You have to pay for every article but can browse through...
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...