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
Posted in: Boost Products, Display, LED, Light Emmiting Fabric, Lumalive, News, Philips, Techno Fashion
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
Posted in: Backpack, Craghoppers, Eleksen, Jacket, News, O’Neill, iPod Fashion
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.
A year later, O’Neill ..read more
Posted in: News, O’Neill
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
Posted in: News, Trade Shows
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
Posted in: News, Trade Shows
Good news for the music and iPod loving business men. According to a business news report on Forbes.com which is based on information from AFX News Limited, Marks & Spencer will sell a new range of Bagir’s iPod suits for men.
MusicStyle as Bagir named their iPod enabled suit released last year, comes complete with a strategically placed pocket for the iPod located so as not to budge.
Discrete loops to hide the earphone wires and soft-touch command controls from Eleksen on the front breast lapel complete the seamless integration of the technology.
The detachable wearable electronics guaranties for easy suit care.
The image on the left shows the ‘old’ model, we couldn’t find photos from the new line of iPod Suits the AFX News report is talking about.
We will watch out for ..read more
Posted in: Belkin, Eleksen, Marks and Spencer, News, Suit, iPod Fashion
According to the first part of The State of Retailing Online 2007, the tenth annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, of 170 retailers, Americans last year spent more online on clothing than they did on computers for the first time in history.
This news is of some relevance to us because we see our main mission to bring Wearable Electronic Clothing and Fashion closer to the consumer by pointing out the retail stores that offer Wearable Electronic products in their program. We also help in introducing and explain the background of the Wearable Electronic products.
As per today, Wearable Electronic Fashion items are few and far apart and not always easy to get hold off or even to get informed. That’s where Crunchwear.com comes in to bridge this gap. ..read more
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VDC Corporation has send out a press release that gives a summary of last weeks Smart Fabrics 2007 Conference in Washington DC. According to VDC’s analyst Tim Shea, the Smart Fabrics Conference has come a long way since the first wearable technology conference in NYC back in 2001.
What started in 2001 with an audience of around 50 ‘far-out techies’, university professors/students and ‘cyborgs’ reached at this years Smart Fabrics an attendance of over 125 technical, general management and investment professionals – few if any resembling cyborgs – and was supported by several exhibitors with real products.
The discussions included next to more forwarding thinking and far-reaching technical and market development ideas case studies of successful product launches, implementations and revenue-generating programs. This later part is a strong indicator the ..read more
Posted in: Articles, CuteCircuit, News
IntertechPira, a leading provider of strategic information and analyses on advanced materials and technologies, is organizing for the third straight year the Smart Fabrics Conference from May 7-9 in Washington DC.
The conference has everything imaginable to offer: on the first day, two highly interesting seminars are planned. The first seminar is about Getting E-textiles to Market by instructor Dr. Patricia Wilson, founder of Fabric Works and the second seminar on Structures and Properties of Interactive Fabrics by Dr. Xiaoming Tao, Chair Professor of Textile Technology and Head of the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
On the second and third day, over 150 leading industry executives are expected to attend this international conference, designed to address the business and technological developments for smart fabrics.
A great ..read more
Posted in: News, Trade Shows
Eleksen, the company we write quite a bit about here, was very active recently in the business section of many online and offline reports.
Firstly, there was the announcement during the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing last week where Eleksen announced it has been selected as an UMPC ecosystem partner by Intel to deliver a range of ElekTex-based solutions for Intel based Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices).
Eleksen will have an array of working reference designs, prototypes and concept designs based on a variety of ElekTex sensor designs and control electronics that can be easily integrated into an Original Equipment Manufacturer’s (OEMs) mobile computing accessories products.
“Interactive soft-goods provide a new capability that complements the functionality and portability of UMPCs and MIDs,” said Kelley Johnson, Marketing Manager at Intel Corporation. ..read more
Posted in: Articles, Eleksen, News
