We all love Star Trek. Until a holodeck becomes reality, the tricorder is our next best bet to make some cool real-world Trek technology. Well, according to a new study by electrical engineers at Oregon State University, we may be closer than ever before. This is all thanks to ultrawideband technology.
In a research paper entitled “Experimental Characterization of a UWB Channel for Body Area Networks,” which was recently published in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking,researchers concluded that this ultrawideband technology can be used at very low energy levels and can support the transmission of vast amounts of health data in real time. This, of course, sounds exactly like a tricorder.
Patrick Chiang, assistant professor in the OSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and co-author of the report, ..read more
Posted in: News, Vitals Monitoring
You know us. We love mobile phone integration. Wearable phones. Clothing doodads. You name it. That’s our bread and butter. Cancer, however, is not our bread and butter. It gives us great relief then to announce that a new study has been published nixing the heretofore thought notion that mobile phone usage causes brain cancer.
A scientific journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), has published an overview of similar studies that casts doubt on any links between cell phones and cancer. The journal has no affiliation with the cell phone industry, should you be foaming at the mouth just waiting to say “conspiracy.”
More on this as it develops, but for now, it seems we can keep gabbing.
Posted in: Mobile Phone Integration, News
Fashioning Technology is hard at work at a conference to be held at the forthcoming SXSW festival. Wait, isn’t Austin’s SXSW primarily for hip bands and movies? Yes and yes. That doesn’t mean the event isn’t ripe for some old-fashioned wearable tech!
The exhibition will be help March 18th and 19th in, obviously, Austin Texas. It is going to be part-conference and part-runway show, with a host of notable attendees showing off their best and brightest tech garments. Scheduled to appear? Klight, designed by Mareike Michel, Laser Suit from Wei-Chieh Shih, Petal Dress by Amy Winters, 3Elctromode with designs from Valerie Lamontage and Magalie Cn, Bats Have Feelings Too by Lynne Bruning and the Twinkle Pad by Diana Eng. That’s only the beginning.
Here is a video advertisement for the event. If ..read more
Posted in: Fashioning Technology, News, Techno Fashion, Trade Shows
Tech keeps getting smaller and smaller, as we all know. However, researches at University of Michigan may taken the tiniest great leap yet. They have designed a one-cubic-millimeter sized computer. Wow, right? As of right now, the researchers are intending it for optical use. You heard that right. They wanna stick it in your eye. Our collective cyborg futures are almost upon us!
This thing stuffs a pressure sensor, memory, thin-film battery, solar cell, wireless radio, and low-power microprocessor all into one very small container. It uses an advanced form of “sleep mode” that is found in cell phone and laptops. It is nearly always asleep unless when needed. This conserves energy because, in case you hadn’t realized, changing batteries in an eyeball can be tricky. Not that that matters, ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, News, Other Products
Perfect Third Inc’s WakeMate sleep aid wristband won’t be here to kick around much longer, according to sources. It seems the attachable USB charger has a tendency to, well, explode. Yeah you heard that right. The thing explodes.
An e-mail sent out by the company’s CEO states, “we were informed by a customer of a safety incident with the black USB chargers.” Yeah that is vague but let us clear things up. The safety incident? Unchecked explosions.
However, it seems the WakeMate itself is safe and the problem lies strictly with the USB chargers. Look for this item to fly back on shelves with a new charger at some point. Until then, stick with safer sleep aids.
Posted in: Armbands, News, Perfect Third, Wearable Tech
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:
Wearable Remote Controls (China Coin
..read more Posted in: Fitright Industrial, News, WEEL Technologies
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
Posted in: Jacket, News, O’Neill, Tech Clothing Industry, Techno Fashion, Two Way Radio
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
Posted in: Bags, News, Sakku, Solar Fashion, Solar Power
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
Posted in: Intertech Pira, News, Tech Clothing Industry, Trade Shows
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
Posted in: News, Super Smart Fabrics, Textiles, Trade Shows, e-Textiles
