Biodevices brings us the Vital Jacket. This garment is used to monitor ECG waves and Heart rate levels. This can be used for sports, fitness, and medical purposes.This beat traditional cumbersome methods and is a valid high quality solution. This allows for a free range of movement with no compromise to bio-feedback integrity.
There are currently two versions available, the HWM100 that stores data on a SD memory card for post-analysis on a PC. This version allows long term monitoring. Users can define heart rate limits and will be alerted through a vibration alarm embedded in the T-Shirt.
The second version is the HWM200 that allows realtime visualization where data is sent via Bluetooth to a PDA or smart phone.
This device will set you back $635.44 and ..read more
Posted in: Biodevices, Bluetooth, Intelligent Clothes, Shirt, Sports, Sportswear, Tech Clothing Industry, Vitals Monitoring, e-Textiles
Interactive fashion is awesome. T-Sketch is creating a t-shirt that has a simulated white board on it. You write on it and it converts is into an illuminated message. This supposedly also has adjustable effects but that is yet to be seen.The device is rumored to run on 2x AAA batteries. Estimated cost is $59.32.
Posted in: Display, Light Emmiting Fabric, T-Shirt, T-Sketch, e-Textiles
An interesting twist has occurred with the Bio-harness of Zephyr Technologies and i-Rule. i-Rule is a sportswear innovator and they have made the Sputnik.How does this relate to Facebook? Simple, the sensor in the shirt can transmit the data to the cradle. Using the Sputnik software, it can then be compiled and uploaded to Facebook. This help so you can show your friends what a physical specimen you are.
The shirt can can measure, transmit and record key athletic performance attributes such as heart rate, respiration rate, skin temperature and posture. Its not integrated as neatly as NuMetrex, but hey its a start.
Posted in: Sports, Sportswear, Thermal Sensor, Vitals Monitoring, Zephyr, e-Textiles, i-Rule
Mediamatic Amsterdam hosted a workshop called “Designing Hybrid Wearables” last month. The team using the Lilypad Arduino, Leah Buchely DIY e-textile system, made a creative cat/cuddle bag.The bag created by Anouk Wipprecht, David Morgan (both Netherlands), Nick Lesley (New York) & Hans Gunter Lock (Estonia), is a substitute for the comforting feeling of a cat sitting on your lap. When you stroke the bag, it will simulate breathing, warm up, and make soothing sounds. All of these things can only be felt is the bag is held close or cuddled. There are even to two LED eyes on the bag.This bag has some serious character. Here comes a new category of interactive bags.
Posted in: Bags, DIY - Corner, e-Textiles
Kanye West is no stranger to over-the-top behavior. Who better to bring wearable electronics to center stage. Kanye’s jackey featured an array of LEDs and EL wires making an animated light effect on both sides of his jacket.Like his outfit designed by Moritz Waldemeyer used in OK Go, this item was a show stopper. We are not able to confirm that Moritz had anything to do with this jacket. This jacket complemented the sounds perfectly. Good work Kayne
Posted in: Concept Design, Jacket, LED, Light Emmiting Fabric, Wearable Computing, e-Textiles
How can you embarrass your significant other on Valentine’s Day? Or even find another herb or herbette? ThinkGeek has an 8 – bit Dynamic Love Life shirt.
To make this magic work, you need one transmitter and one receiver shirt to make the hearts appear. This scale is based on proximity of each other. The shirt is washable(feel free to be lame again next year), all you have to do is remove the electric elements that are fully detachable.
So for $24 you can get the shirt, but the transmitter is not yet available or priced.
Posted in: Display, Shirt, ThinkGeek, e-Textiles
Frog Design introduces a highly interesting textile and clothing concept. The textile and clothing concept in question can harvest the power everyone is creating with his/her clothing!
The technology works by harnessing the static electricity generated from regular movement.
Currently this electrical energy is wasted. Frog Design’s vision is to collect this waste energy by weaving conductive filaments into fabric. Everyday clothing can so be transformed into power (generating) clothes that can provide power to portable gizmos in your pocket.
The potential of such fabric is huge. The only thing which still has to be figured out is how to weave the power fabric and how to get the power from the jacket or t-shirt to your iPod or iPhone.
Frog Design goes even further in their vision and proposes an even more revolutionary ..read more
Posted in: Conductive Yarn, Frog Design, e-Textiles, iPod Fashion
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
Smart and Intelligent fabric allow designers of sport bras to improve the comfort for active women according to a demonstration of an Australian research team from the University of Wollongong.
Fitted with tiny sensors, the smart-bra fabric will monitor and measure movement of the breast.
Two volunteers, aged 30 and 39, one wearing a 36D bra and the other a 38DD, were instructed to walk on a treadmill at 4.3mph and then speed up to a jog of 6.2mph.
The finding of this test: all the strain and stress from the breast movement, which can be as much as 2.7 inches during jogging, is being borne by the straps. This could explain the shoulder pain and tingling in the arms that many women suffer during physical activities. Done over prolonged time, these ill ..read more
Posted in: Super Smart Fabrics, Underwear, Vitals Monitoring, e-Textiles
LumiGram has recently designed a collection of illuminated, sexy tops that promise your nights will never look the same ….
LumiGram uses Italian’s Luminex unique light emitting fabric which has as its light element fiber optics woven into conventional textiles. More info on Luminex here.
Unlike light sources such as LEDs or EL technology, the light coming from Luminex fabric is ’subtle and mysterious’ with a touch of magic, creating a mystic atmosphere, at least that’s what I can imagine it will look like in action.
The collection is called ‘LumiTops‘ and will be a ‘must have’ outfit for for Clubbing, Parties or to show off the latest innovation in fashion meets technology. They look sexy, stunning, just beautiful.
Sure, this fabric does not allow to show images or even change the once selected ..read more
Posted in: Light Emmiting Fabric, Lumalive, LumiGram, Luminex, Top, e-Textiles
