The world of hat technology has hit some cool strides as of late. NeuroSky kicks it up even further with their bizarre Brain Athlete golf visor. This golf visor comes complete with a batch of EEG sensors that will measure your brain waves as you play your favorite leisurely sport. Don’t worry, it can measure your brainwaves even when you aren’t on the links also.
How is this useful? Well trainers can measure the results in real time as the information is sent into the cloud. This would be good for figuring out if you are the next Tiger Woods, be it in the golfing world or the world of seduction. Short answer, you are probably not but you can still dream!
The visor cap is available now but comes from Japan ..read more
Posted in: Environmental Monitoring, Hats, Intelligent Clothes, Wearable Tech
SenseBridge has released their innovative Heart Spark pendant. This neat little gadget blinks along with your heart beat, letting the world know you are a human and not a vampire. Sure, we’ve had some cool jewelery in the past, but nothing that stopped vampires from spreading!
How does it work? The pendant has a wireless receiver and gads of LEDs tucked in to it’s circuitry. It senses the movement of your heart beats, and blinks accordingly. This is a simple concept but is sure to illicit “awww”s and “wtf”s in equal measure. Either way, that’s cool!
It’s $69 and available now. Go get em tigress.
Posted in: Accessories, Intelligent Clothes, Other Products, SenseBridge, Wearable Tech
ThinkGeek has already wowed us with interesting t-shirts, but this one may take the synthesized cake. The company’s new synthesizer shirt is one-part t-shirt and one part synthesizer. It’s a fully playable polyphonic synthesizer. Yeah you heard that right. It’s a t-shirt that moonlights as a musical instrument.
It features five different sampled instruments, full polyphonic sound, and a cool looking detachable amp. It’s also, in case you didn’t notice, a t-shirt. They are available now at around $30. Start wowing your friends now.
Posted in: Intelligent Clothes, T-Shirt, ThinkGeek, Wearable Tech
Brother might be know for printing and other office related products, but watch out. Brother is working on a retinal display that projects a 800 x 600 resolution image directly into your retina that’ll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter ahead of you. Brother has fully functional prototypes and is looking to bring this to market by next year. Sweet.
Posted in: Brother, Concept Design, Display, Eyewear, Eyewear Display, Intelligent Clothes, Techno Fashion, Wearable Computing
Brando Workshop has released another interesting product. WiFi Detection Cap finds 802.11 b/g/n signals. Using LEDs, one to show network availability and the other to show strength. The hat come is two varieties, a laptop design or a XM like design, and three colors: red, white, black). The two CR2032 batteries are included.Funny thing about this hat is that the wearer cannot actually see the activity while wearing it. Maybe this is an accessory to the Firebox WiFi shirt, or the ThinkGeek Wi-Fi shirt. Well for $14.00 it is a fun toy.
Posted in: Brando Workshop, Display, Hats, Intelligent Clothes, LED, WiFi Detection
For the hearing and vision impaired, the world can be very limiting. Silent Call tries to provide a level of freedom for these people. The Silent Touch provides visual and vibration for certain events. Events such as doorbell, phone, smoke alarm, fire alarm, burglar alarm trigger the watch to activate within a 300 foot range.This watch works with the Sidekick II system from Silent Call. Silent Call has wake up alarms and mattress vibrators to alert the owner. The vibration changes with the type of alert. The Silent Touch watch sells for $150.00 and the charger for $117.65. A kit that includes the watch, charger, and bed vibrator costs $289.00.
Posted in: Display, Environmental Monitoring, Intelligent Clothes, Mobile Phone Integration, Mobile Phone Technology, Safety, Silent Call, Sound, Tactile Feedback, Watches
Textronics, a leader in textile sensor technology, is now offering a DIY kit for people interested in developing heart rate monitoring textiles. This marks the first time that Textronics is offering and official kit for purchase.
The Developers Kit offer 12 textile sensors, a variety of knit tubes, wrist cuffs and chest straps. Additionally they include conductive thread and 2 transmitters with the kit. These transmitters are compatible with most analog heart rate monitors like Polar.
The kit which sells for $100.00 is a very thorough kit to help anyone start anyone get started in the vital monitoring garment game. This can open the door to many fitness and sporting tech garments. It is always great when an industry leader can offer these kits to the general public. Making it easier for ..read more
Posted in: Components, Conductive Yarn, DIY - Corner, Do-It-Yourself Industry Leaders, Intelligent Clothes, Safety, Sports, Tech Clothing Industry, Textile Circuit, Textile Switch, Textronics, Vitals Monitoring, Wearable Tech
UK retailer Republic has released its Crafted iPod Jacket. This bomber jacket is made of metallic yarn and has a crushed look. Sleeve mounted controls and iPod pocket are integrated nicely. The softswitch technology is from Fibretronic and utilizes their CONNECTED-wear module.
The jacket is washable and all vital electronics are removable. Sadly only available in the UK for $109.40.
Posted in: Button/Switch, CONNECTEDwear, Fibretronic, Intelligent Clothes, Jacket, Republic, Textiles, iPhone Integration, iPod Fashion, iPod Integration
Hard-Wear Jacket from Paul Coudamy takes a small spy camera and embeds it into the back of this jacket. So now you can watch your back in style with this sweet jacket. And LCD screen located on the sleeve shows what is going on behind you. Great for people to lazy to turn around, or poorly dressed spys.
Posted in: Concept Design, Display, Intelligent Clothes, Jacket, Safety
