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T-Shirt TV

Filed in archive Cool , Science , Technology by on July 07, 2007

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...

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Fibres of the 21st century

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by on April 09, 2007

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...

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The Emotional Wardrobe

Filed in archive About , Market , Science , Technology by on March 29, 2007

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...

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Pointscreen - CeBIT 2007

Filed in archive Cool , Products , Science , Technology by on March 21, 2007

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...

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Wearable Computer Training

Filed in archive Science by on February 22, 2007

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,...

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Convergence and Hi-Tech; an interview with Mr. Strese, VDI/VDE, part II

Filed in archive About , Science , Technology by on November 25, 2006

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...

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Convergence and Hi-Tech; an interview with Mr. Strese, VDI/VDE, part I

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Science , Technology by on November 18, 2006

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...

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Research in ubiquitous computing with Lalya Gaye

Filed in archive Science by on November 17, 2006

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...

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From mind to move

Filed in archive Science by on October 25, 2006

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...

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Breakthrough in heart monitoring

Filed in archive Products , Science , Technology by on October 24, 2006

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....

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Micro-Bio-Reactor

Filed in archive Science by on October 23, 2006

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...

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Wearable stress-fracture detection system

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on October 19, 2006

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...

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Intern. Symposium on Wearable Computing

Filed in archive About , Events , Science by on October 10, 2006

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: #...

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Emotional Design - the wearable social Interface

Filed in archive Cool , High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on October 07, 2006

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....

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ECG T-Shirt

Filed in archive Products , Science , Technology by on September 16, 2006

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...

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Modeled by: Spider

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on September 08, 2006

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...

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Future Skin

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on August 24, 2006

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...

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Personal Navigation

Filed in archive Cool , Products , Science , Technology by on August 18, 2006

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...

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Electric textile @ IFA 2006

Filed in archive Cool , Enterprises , Events , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by on August 12, 2006

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...

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Become invincible with wearables

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science by on July 21, 2006

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...

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Government awaken

Filed in archive About , Market , Science by on July 19, 2006

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...

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Submission deadline

Filed in archive Events , Science by on June 15, 2006

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...

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Mobile news networks

Filed in archive Market , Science by on May 07, 2006

"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...

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Thin like a thought

Filed in archive Science by on May 03, 2006

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...

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Virtual Retinal Display (VRD)

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on April 22, 2006

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...

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Example of science topics

Filed in archive Science by on April 18, 2006

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...

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Paul Lukowicz

Filed in archive Science by on March 31, 2006

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 /...

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News for the Fire Dept

Filed in archive Science by on February 22, 2006

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...

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Wealthy

Filed in archive Science by on February 21, 2006

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...

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Tweakfest

Filed in archive Events , Science by on November 20, 2005

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...

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Exoskeleton

Filed in archive Products , Science , Technology , Technology by on November 07, 2005

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...

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energy2go

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on November 07, 2005

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...

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Better Maintenance Services

Filed in archive Science by on October 24, 2005

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...

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life-saver

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on October 20, 2005

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...

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indoor tracking

Filed in archive Science by on September 22, 2005

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...

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Smart Textiles

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on September 15, 2005

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...

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Walk the dog

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on August 05, 2005

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...

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A mobile diary

Filed in archive Science , Technology by on August 03, 2005

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...

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LifeShirt

Filed in archive Products , Science by on July 09, 2005

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...

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International Symposium

Filed in archive Events , Science by on July 06, 2005

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...

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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Filed in archive Science by on July 05, 2005

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...

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Psymbiote - a Cyborg overview

Filed in archive About , Cool , Events , Science by on June 20, 2005

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...

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IFAWC

Filed in archive Events , Science by on June 17, 2005

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...

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