After Peratech acquires Eleksen, another buyout in the Wearable Electronic space took place to strengthen the design and manufacturing base of interactive fashion, WEEL Technologies has successfully completed a management buy-out of the Wearable Electronics company FITRIGHT Industrial which has designed and manufactured Wearable Electronic components into Apparel, Bag and Accessory products for a number of leading brands in outdoor and sports bags and apparel.
As terms of the deal, WEEL is taking over all manufacturing assets, technology rights, patents and supplier agreements and will continue focusing on the design, manufacturing and system integration of Wearable Electronic into Apparel, Bag and Accessory products.
The team at WEEL Technologies has worked with leading brands to design, manufacture and integrate Wearable Electronic solutions into Apparel, Bags and Accessories such as:
The O’Neill Walkie Talkie Jacket is on the way! Our first info about the upcoming Walkie-Talkie Jacket was back in July where we got pre-information first hand. Last week O’Neill launched a dedicated page on thier website for the H4 Wearable Electronic range. Featuring sleek styling and high-end fabrics, the Walkie-Talkie Jacket is targeted towards the adventures outdoor enthusiasts who venture in unexplored areas and needs to stay in contact with the group or base station. The H4 Walkie-Talkie Jacket is 100% compatible with the Motorola T5422 and should work with many other of Motorola’s 2-way radios.
The walkie-talkie connector is located in a chest pocket for save and ‘out-of-the-way’ storage of your 2-way radio to keep your hands free. The speaker as ..read more
Yesterday Swiss based company Sakku launched their US online shopping site, expanding their reach of Solar messenger bags beyond the EU market.
The use of solar energy in itself is already doing a great favor to our environment. Sakku’s Solar Messenger bags add a twist to that by using recycled boat sails for the sakku.traveler model.
We have posted about the great environmental value Sakku’s Solar Messenger bags have because of the combination of Solar technology and sustainable materials together with the recycling offer for ‘out of fashion’ bags.
Sakku is offering two models, the smaller (13.78 x 9.84 x 4.72 Inches) sakku.worker (black), made from black cordura and the larger (18.5 x 13.78 x 6.3 Inches) sakku.traveller (white), made from used sails from sail boats.
On the technical side you have two options ..read more
The Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference organized by Intertech Pira is taking place in Prague between Dec. 11-12.
If you can come a day earlier to Prague, you can stop by The Nanotextiles Conference on Dec. 10th and hear how the latest developments in how Nano technology will shape the future of textiles.
The Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference has diverse topics spanning the fashion world, represented by Angel Chang, Solar technology for Wearable Electronics as well as the view on Wearable Electronic from one of the biggest apparel and soft goods companies: The North Face.
Visiting this event will be an enrichment for everyone interested and/or active in the Wearable Electronic market.
To bridge the gab between now and the Smart and Inteligent Textiles Conference, I suggest having a look to the new ..read more
IntertechPira’s 2007 edition of the Smart Textiles and Nanotextile Conference will take place from Dec 10-12 in Prague, Czech Republic.
It’s the second time Smart and Intelligent Textiles will be the focus of a high profile conference.
Top experts will present and discuss the present status but also the future of Smart, Intelligent and Nano Textiles.
Highly interesting presentations and discussions are guaranteed looking to the speaker list: Angel Chang will speak about ‘Advanced textiles in high fashion applications‘, Winston Shih, Advanced Products Manager, The North Face who is also the Chair person, will talk about ‘Keeping technology on the forefront at The North Face‘ and Christian Stammel, CEO of Navispace will present ‘Solar Technology: a key technology for the wearable electronic market‘.
There are many more experts on the long speaker list who ..read more
Boost Products from The Netherlands will be the first company using Philips Lumalive light emitting textiles for clothing.
After years of research, Philips has succeeded in incorporating special LED technology into fabric. “Lumalive brings fabrics and clothing alive”, says Bas Zeper, CEO of Philips Lumalive. “This now gives marketeers a tool with which to reach their market in an interactive and more effective way.”
“The LED technology in Lumalive offers unlimited graphics and interactive applications and, in combination with the trendy promotion clothing, guarantees an impressive and distinctive experience.” says Raymond Lentz, director of Boost Products.
I can imagine having parties where everyone has one of those shirts. A visual explosion of colors to the beat of the sound. Changing the color or images depending on the size of the group, ..read more
Get your snowboarding action on YouTube in an instant with the H4 Campack from O’Neill.
O’Neill Europe announced the launch of the H4 Campack, one of seven pieces from its groundbreaking 4th generation wearable electronics line. The suggested retail price is €269.- (US$ 367.-) and designed to be used as a fully functional snowboard backpack, the H4 Campack features an integrated portable media player and external camera lens.
There’s simply no better way to film freestyle and freeride snowboarding action before sharing the footage over the internet with friends and fellow web surfers. A must have for YouTube addicted action boarders.
The portable media player is positioned in the backpack’s top pocket. Serving to record all footage captured by the goggle strap or helmet mounted camera lens, the portable media player writes the ..read more
O’Neill Europe is the most consistent company when is comes to Wearable Electronic. Starting a few years back with the iPod Jacket named Hub has evolved and expanded to the h4 line for Autumn/Winter 2007/2008.
First a short look back to O’Neill’s evolutionary work in Wearable Electronic:
In 2004, O’Neill announced the world’s 1st mobile communications & entertainment snowboard jacket the Hub for the Autumn/Winter season 2004/2005.
The HUB mobile communications and entertainment Jacket featured a removable 128Mb MP3 player, Bluetooth that allows the wearer to make and receive calls from the cell telephone and the Eleksen fabric keyboard.
Sorry – no iPod at that time and the special very low spec MP3 player that O’Neill used was not such a good idea but they changed that in the next range.
Wearable Electronics takes again center stage for the third consecutive month. In May was the Smart Fabrics, this month the Avantex and coming month the ISPO Sport & Style in Munich / Germany.Between July 8-10, the 1st Wearable Technologies congress “Where fashion meets technology” will be held in parallel with the sports equipment and fashion trade fair ISPO Sport & Style in the International Congress Centre Munich.
The cutting-edge congress builds a bridge between the high-tech and the fashion industry focusing on decision makers and experts from commerce, production, and science, in particular from the fields of sports, fashion, electronics and consumer electronics.
Wearable Electronic demonstrates how the combination of sports, fashion and lifestyle combined with the latest trends from the electronics industry creates authentic added value for customers and generates additional ..read more
Avantex is focusing on the visualization but also on the practical aspects of innovative and future clothing. Techtextil which is next door, is mainly focused on the manufacturing part of the garment creation process.
My overview focuses on the Avantex itself, providing a view of the things to come soon into the Wearable Electronic market.
From left to right: O’Neill h4 range for 2007/08 Jacket with Eleksen textile switch, O’Neill h4 collection with Fibretronic ‘Fidler’ switch and right photos the Zegna iJacket, Leather edition – beautiful, just beautiful.
This range of photos show from left to right: Bagir/Eleksen new collection of men’s business suit, Aquatry Jacket (on Eleksen booth) and Philips Lumalive vest on the right.
That range of photos above show from left to right: Rosner new style, Lodenfrey Jacket (excellent look and ..read more
