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Wearable Electronics, Smart Clothes, Smart Fabrics, Wearable Tech

Scrolling LED T-Shirt

ComputerGear is selling a LED T-Shirt that gives you another option to personalize your wardrobe.You can express yourself by beaming up right on your chest whatever message you want to give to the rest of the world.

Scrolling LED T-Shirt Specs:

With buttons on the back of the LED display you can enter 6 different messages.
The first message can be up to 512 characters long and for the remaining 5 […] Continue Reading…

O’Neill H4 iPod Backpack

O’Neill has finally launched a dedicated Website for the H4 Wearable Electronic range. A beautiful site, you have to check out. We will bring updates of the H4 Jackets over the coming days.

There are two Backpacks in the H4 range, the Campack we have posted about previously and now the H4 Back-to-School iPod Backpack.

I did see the H4 iPod Backpack earlier this year on the German Apple Inc. loving […] Continue Reading…

BladeRunner Trailblazer GPS Jacket

BladeRunner, a clothing manufacturer from the UK that specializes in equipment for the police and security services has launched recently the first school uniform in slash-proof Kevlar. Considering the situation nowadays in some schools and on the way to the school, this might not be such a bad idea as it might sound initially.The latest addition to BladeRunner’s protective clothing is a jacket that includes GPS technology. The idea […] Continue Reading…

LumiGram LumiTops

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 […] Continue Reading…

SmartLife Technology Garments that Sense

SmartLife Technology Limited, a UK based company founded in 2003, has designed and developed a garment based system with integrated sensors for sport, personal health and well-being monitoring.

In sports, integrating sensors that collect data about a wearers body conditions help elite athletes and regular folk to optimize the training and performance.

The same sensor technology gives advantages in health care by collecting vital data for monitoring patients during critical […] Continue Reading…

DIY LED Hat by Wu-Lee

Wu-Lee has created an awesome LED Hat.

The LED has uses a mesh that carries 1024 LEDs! That’s a lot of wiring and soldering. The construction notes are a very interesting and a inspirational read. The great thing about this concept is that anything can be displayed on the matrix of 16 (vertical) and 64 (horizontal around the hat) pixels. Images, icons, text, anything can be visualized in animated […] Continue Reading…

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 […] Continue Reading…

The Italian fashion brand MUSIC and SONS address some clothing issues with thier T-Shirt collection.

The first problem they address is the wire management in our electronic devices by integrating headphone wires seamlessly into the T-Shirts.
MUSIC and SONS is also using naturally sustainable materials like BAMBOO in their products. This natural fiber is hypoallergenic, absorbent, and is naturally anti-bacterial so it will not hold odor. It also is the most […] Continue Reading…

Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference

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 […] Continue Reading…

Hug Shirt from CuteCircuit UPDATE

The Hug Shirt first posted about here is a concept created by the fabulous team of Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. The founders of CuteCircuit, have taken on the challenge to bring this great idea to reality.

Much has been written and said about the Hug Shirt but it seems this, once seen as ‘just a concept’ idea, is reaching the next level, being a product that consumers can buy.

So […] Continue Reading…