Liquid Image has recently announced a whole line of camera equipped head gear for winter and water sports. The new line of products will feature camera-equipped ski masks, swimming goggles and scuba masks. Liquid Image is revealing the new products at this years CES 2010.
The Liquid Image Summit Series is the world’s first snow goggle with an integrated digital camera. The Summit Series Snow Camera Goggle 335 integrates a 5 megapixel still camera / video camera capable of shooting 720 x 480 resolution video at 30 frames a second with audio. The camera has 16MB of built-in flash memory which is expandable to 16GB via a microSD / SDHC slot. The snow goggles include large side buttons which are easy to press while wearing ski-gloves. The snow goggles also include ..read more
Posted in: Camera, Eyewear, Liquid Image, Wearable Tech
Recon Instruments is planning to put a heads up display inside ski-goggles. We’ve been waiting for eyewear display’s for quite some time now. It’s about time this long-time video game feature is finally going to make its way into real world products. The system works by integrating a GPS-linked heads-up display system(HUD), and ski goggles.
Recon Instruments is reportedly developing the technology right now, and if they can stay on track, a heads-up-display set of goggles will be be on sale next fall between $350 to $450. The device will be able to tap into your cellphone via bluetooth, and if your phone has a GPS chip, you’ll be able to see where you’re at on a small map, and where your fellow snow pals are and where you’re ..read more
Posted in: Display, Eyewear, Eyewear Display, GPS, HUD, Recon Instruments, Sports, Wearable Tech
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
Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi are two very creative people extremely passionate about wearable tech.
Their fascination in Wearable Technologies combined with studies in Industrial Design and Interface Cultures enabled them to create Wearable Electronic projects like the Massage me Jacket, a unique video game controller.
The ‘Massage me’ concept is a wearable massage interface that turns a video game player’s excess energy into a back massage for your partner or loved ones. Playing Massage me requires two people, one who wears the jacket to receive the massage and one who massages the person wearing the jacket.
Soft, flexible buttons are embedded in back of the jacket so that wearing it turns your back into a gamepad. All you need to do is to sit or lay down in front of a video game ..read more
Posted in: Wearable Tech
