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Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad
Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) gave us a hint about open places for the second Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino Lilypad which has been added due to the huge demand the first workshop starting on July 25 generated and has been ’sold out……
Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier
Another highly interesting company I have visited during the TechTextile is ITL (Intelligent Textiles Limited) a UK based research and development company founded in 2002 specialized in the weaving of complex electrical circuits in conductive fabrics.
Starting in the traditional application areas of consumer……
Plug-and-Wear: One-stop-shop for eTextile crafters
Plug-and-Wear, a one-stop-shop offering materials and components specifically targeted to eTextile creators has opened it’s shopping doors.
Plug-and-Wear is the brain child of Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company with 55+ years experi……
Laser Jacket: Bono’s latest stage outfit from Moritz Waldemeyer
U2 started yesterday their 360° Tour 2009 in Barcelona’s Camp Nou with an explosion of great tunes and light.
For the song ‘Ultra Violet (Light My Way)‘, Bono wears a laser light radiating jacket, making him visible across the entire venue.
The creator of Bono’s laser jacket is Mori……
Sony Ericsson T715 slides into view
Many touch-phone refuseniks are wondering, with some justification, whether anyone is still making simple, messaging workhorses with real buttons. Well, Sony Ericsson has just answered in the affirmative with the T715.Offering a……
DIY - RF detector wristband
Brian send us his latest wearable DIY project, the ‘RF detector wristband‘.
A simple but interesting project demonstrating how the use of wearable technologies can create helpful ‘hands on’ tools.
The function of the ‘RF detector wristband’ is to visualize the presents of ……
Klight - an sparkling, interactive dress
Avantex-Innovation-Award 2009 winner in the category ‘New Fashion’ was ‘Klight‘, a sparkling interactive dress was the highlight during my walk around the TechTextil.
Klight is an interactive dress which translates the body’s movement into light, connecting the body with its sur……
Cellphone dress
Georgie Davies, BA student at the London College of Fashion made ‘Fashionable electronic’ headlines last week with the ‘Cellphone dress‘, her winning entry to the Sony Ericsson initiative working with the School of Fashion Design and Technology at the London College of Fashion to expl……
Interactive Sample Book for e-textile designer
During my visit to the TechTextil I met Hanne-Louise Johannesen, co-founder of Diffus, a Denmark based design company with the mission of ‘diffusing traditional thinking as well as materials in order to create the unforeseen‘ in e-textile applications.
Very interesting to me is the project of the……
Hands on video with the Viewty Smart
Although many people may be a little pre-occupied with another handset today, we've just posted a new hands on video with LG's rather lovely looking Viewty Smart.Following in the footsteps of the original Viewty launched……
