Smart Fabrics Heated Clothing from Gerbing, a company based out of Seattle focuses on bringing you a warm feeling in the coldest times of the year to their customers with high tech heated clothing.Their collection of heated clothing technologies ranges from the more ‘conventional’ textile heating systems like insulated copper wires to Micro Wires and Nano Wire heat technology to high tech smart fabrics like Carbon Fiber Heat Technology.
A product that uses the Carbon Fiber technology is the LITE HEATED VEST LINER. As the name implies, it is a light weight vest that radiates a comfy temperature and can be worn under an outer jacket.
The Heated Vest is powered by a 7.4v lithium battery pack which gives 4 hours of heat on the highest setting or over 10 hours ..read more
Posted in: Gerbing, Heating, Vest, e-Textiles
The 3rd Space Vest is one of the coolest new devices out right now. The 3rd Space vest is a vest for computer gamers that will allow them to physically feel feel game events such as getting hit, stabbed, or punched.
The 3rd Space Vest, is developed by TN Games and was unveiled last week at the E for All video game exposition in Los Angeles.The technology inside the 3rd Space Vest was originally designed for use as a medical device by Dr. Mark Ombrellaro, a US surgeon and CEO of TN Games. Ombrellaro was working on a way to give medical exams via the Internet to prisoners, the elderly, those in rural communities and people that live in isolated regions with very limited access to medical services.
The medical version ..read more
Posted in: Sports, TN Games, Tactile Feedback, Vest, Wearable Computing
Although the winter season will end soon, we want to introduce to you another iPod Fashion product for the cold days.
The company that came to our attention is: DOPE&DRAKKAR which was established in Tokyo, Japan by Eichiro Sakata in 1994. “Dope” is a drug and “Drakkar” is an addict. Eichiro wanted to make clothes that were ‘addictive as drugs’.
This company’s philosophy made it a ‘must’ to look for innovative additions to their clothing line and to ‘proof’ the point, they launched last January the iDope iPod collection.
The iDope works with all iPod models except with Gen 1+2 and all iPod Shuffle.
It has the ’standard’ build-in iPod control from Eleksen but the iDope is different: rather than be woven into the material as play and pause buttons iDope has a set ..read more
Posted in: Button/Switch, Clothing, Dope+Drakkar, Jacket, Vest, iPod Fashion
The cold winter season is now here with full force. Just about the right time to introduce another Wearable Electronic product that makes our life easier and warmer.
The Hammacher Schlemmer Heated Vest is the perfect attire for those cold wintery nights.
The Heated Vest is made of polyester fleece and is reversible: black on one side, gray on the other. It’s thin enough to fit under a jacket. The heating element is made of an embedded carbon-fiber mesh and infrared heater to evenly warm the fabric without the need for separate heating elements or heavy wiring.
The vest is powered by rechargeable batteries which give about 4 hours of continuous heating. Via the included controller, the heating can conveniently be turned on and off. The electronic part- the battery case and controller, can be removed when ..read more
Posted in: Clothing, Hammacher Schlemmer, Heating, Vest
We haven’t been sure writing about the Two-Way Radio Life Vest. It doesn’t use Smart Textiles or Wearable Electronic technologies but then …. it is a very unique merge of electronic and (kind off) clothing. And we like this idea, it’s not high tech but practical and shows that merging electronic with clothing is a trend many companies exploring now.
The Two-Way Radio Life Vest is approved by the U.S. Coast Guard and comes with dual, 14-channel two-way radios, one integrated into the chest of the life vest and another for use on a boat or on shore, allowing easy communication from water skier to boat, or ship to shore from up to 3 kilometer away.
A pocket in the chest of ..read more
Posted in: Hammacher Schlemmer, Safety, Sports, Two Way Radio, Vest
