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Looking for a unique USB Emoticon Keyboard? Then check out Bajca, an intense combination customizable jewelry kit and smiley keyboard. This concept USB keyboard has 16 emotional keys that represents a different ’smile’ each one. What’s more, this removable emoticons can also become jewelry of all sorts, including bracelets, necklaces, or even rings.

Not withstanding this gadget’s title, with its frankly ridiculous cApiTalIsatiOn, the sWap Bluetooth cell phone watch certainly has the distinction of being one of the most aesthetically refined cell phone watches we come across of late in managing to offering the dimensions not comparable to that of a house brick ...

  Imagine a bicycle seat connected by mechanical frames to a pair of shoes for an idea of how the new wearable assisted-walking gadget from Honda works. The experimental device, unveiled Friday, is designed to support bodyweight, reduce stress on the knees and help people get up steps and stay in crouching positions. Honda envisions the device being [...]

Jake Loniak’s exoskeleton motorcycle concept, Deus Ex Machina, is sick. Imagine seeing this tearing around London.[VIA]

Studio 5050, a creative collective in the wearable electronic space, is preparing the launch of a set of e-textile modules which can help DIY enthusiasts, designer and students to work on their interactive fashion without the need of spending too much time on electronic development. During the past few years, Studio 5050 developed remarkable interactive [...]

While ordering my copy of Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sewby Alison Lewis which started shipping two days ago I stumbled upon two other upcoming books from Diana Eng due to be launched in the first quarter of 2009. The first one is TechStyle: Create Wired Wearables and Geeky Gear in cooperation with Natalie [...]

Another cool - or should I say hot - DIY project using e-textile technologies surfaced on Instructables by user craft-tech. The e-textile materials and components used come for base material Aniomagic which has a nice range of simple to use e-textile components including very smart little sensors for light, temperature and one to be programmed to [...]

I just saw this commercial on tv and I am honestly cannot believe this is a real product:Here is the product description from the website:Blankets are OK but they can slip and slide, plus your hands are trapped inside. The Snuggie keeps you totally warm and gives you the freedom to use your hands. Work the remote, use your laptop, or do some reading in total warmth and comfort!You don't know how m

This week we introduce one of the most complex but also most advanced wearable electronic DIY instructions we have seen: the Puppeteer Motion-Capture Costume developed by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson, two ladies we had an interview earlier this year about this and other projects they are collaborating on. The idea behind Puppeteer is to create [...]

One of the most ’sensible’ wearable electronic concepts I have seen is the Wearable Posture Monitoring vest from Lucy Dunne. Spending every day a lot of the time behind the desk and hammering around the keyboard like many others are doing nowadays, the body posture changes from energetic in the morning to almost melting in the [...]

We have done a lot of coverage on heated apparels but how do we know how cold/warm is it inside our jacket? To find out the temperature inside a jacket we could use an ‘old fashion thermometer’ or we can follow this DIY instruction to build a cool Jacket Thermometer indicating the temperature via different colors [...]

Accessories are stealing the fashion spotlight this season with bold and edgy statement pieces. Use graphic printed scarves to brighten up that little black dress or wrap one around your hair for a chic artsy bohemian look. Jewelry is more declarative than decorative with bib necklaces, bulky bracelets and chunky cocktail rings. This spiral ring from Gala Glass is entirely handcrafted and simply

A recent article by Charlie Foster for Forbes.com about the wearable electronic DIY movement describes the ‘cross over point’ between the ‘boy’s only’ club of silicon based tinkering and the ‘arts-and-crafts’ community traditionally a more feminine domain. The marriage of tech and fashion opens the doors for crafters to learn how to solder and tinkerers to

Let’s say you’re a fan of Star Wars and want to stand out from all those other guys at convetions wearing Boba Fett costumes? You make a Boba Fett costume out of Legos, of course! As you can see the jumpsuit and the cape are obviously cloth, but everything else from the helmet to the jet [...]

Remember the first time I posted about a company called Aniomagic introducing the cute wearable electronic modules for easy interactive fashion prototyping? Since then, Aniomagic kept on expanding their wearable electronic module portfolio with modules like the Mimeolight. The newest addition is a range of learning sensors, the smartest and simplest wearable electronic module on the [...]

iSonic has just released two of its personal wearable displays known as the Crystal 701 and the Shade 301, Myvu devices. They are both compatible with the iPod classic, iPod touch, iPod nano and iPhone. No Tags

A wearable electronic DIY guide from Instructables user Louise Johnson demonstrates how to make LED-Pants that have a row of LEDs on the side of the pants legs. I guess such type of e-textile upgrade of regular pants is for stage performances or hot parties. Whatever the motivation of Louise was, his instructions are [...]

We have introduced to our reader last week the remarkable work of Rachel Bagley, a final year fashion student at South East Essex College (UK). Today we would like to share with you the interview we had with Rachel which is full of highly interesting views from her about the combination of Wearable Electronic and [...]

We interact in the real, physical world in many different ways like seeing (visual), hearing (audio), taste, smell (olfaction) and touch (tactile). Our interaction with the virtual world is comparatively limited mostly to visual and audio and in some cases tactile like some video game controller. A Wearable Tactile Display could add the touch dimension to [...]

I had such a great response to my Jiffy Beach Cover-Up that I came up with this new little number titled The Vivian. Here I made a beach sarong that you can put on to keep you dry either at the beach or pool. Again you will use a old towel, four buttons, and 1 inch elastic to add support. Here is a link to the pattern with the directionsIt is very easy and fun to make. Love to know any thoughts on

If you are working on a cool DIY Wearable Electronic project and want to add some bling to it, check out the latest Wearable Electronic DIY module from Aniomagic called the ‘mimeolight‘. This module must be one of the easiest ways to add some magic light effects to your electronic craft projects with customizable blinking patterns. [...]

I am ‘borrowing’ part of my headline from an initiative of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City which run last year an exhibition called: ‘Design for the other 90%‘. This exhibition touched on the fact that most cutting edge technological developments are accessible to only 10% of the world population while the other 90% [...]

We had an article on talk2myShirt last October speculating about the revival of the BoomBox trend of the 80s in form of bags and backpacks with speaker and amplifier integrated to hook up to our 21st century small audio players like the iPod. Sure enough another option is coming to the market via iWorld with a [...]

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I love the fun these dresses convey but where is an honest, normal girl to wear such a frock? I feel like it'd be human bumper cars in any bar or on any dance floor and how does one sit in such an outfit? Again, love the idea of it, but help me out with where I wear it.www.armandbasi.comimage from Elle magazine

Remote controls in clothing are around for a couple of years now, offered by different companies but they look almost always the same: five or six function buttons lined up into one row or a circular shape with a ’stick’ in the center. We haven’t seen much of a design/style creativity for textile or soft keypads [...]

Filed under: Peripherals Wearable mice aren’t exactly a new idea, but it seems that Microsoft thinks it can do things one better, with a recent patent application revealing its plans for a desk-defying device of its own. As you can see above, this one is designed to be worn even while your typing on a keyboard, [...]

I received an email yesterday from my lovely friend Felicity and it had all these random photos of girls wearing dresses made entirely from twisted balloons. There was no reference to what the event was, where it was held or where the photos had come from. So sorry for not referencing whoever took these photos [...]

With all the advancements in optical and laser technologies, the mice works great on most practical surfaces but as soon as you lift it off the surface it degrades to a very bulky clicking device. If you’ve ever leaned right back on your seat or lounged on a very soft couch and tried to use [...]

The idea of Wearable Antennas is around for some time but I have never seen someone actually developing or even producing this type of antenna, that is until today. On my restless search for Wearable Electronic news I found a press release from Pharad, founded in 2003 to develop innovative and wearable antenna technology primarily for [...]

The bacon bra: The next big thing in breakfast meats. Until today, I'd never seen anyone wear bacon. This may just become the next thing in undergarments. It's wire-free, made of all-natural materials and could double as a snack in a pinch. [photo link]

If you dig Post-Millennial Catchwords, Provocative Art, and Jeans, then you're gonna love this one—a wearable art pop up shop featuring Damien Hirst denim for Levi's, inspired by Andy Warhol, and modeled by Vincent Gallo.The "Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst" pop-up shop will pop up today at Fred Segal Man in Santa Monica. Two hitherto unseen Hirst works (more butterfly corpses, perhaps?) will be unveiled at the event, and we'll celebrate the release of an accompanying 224-page coffee table book, featuring essays and interviews by Steffie Nelson, with Vincent Gallo modeling the goods.Damien Hirst collaborated with Levi's after coming across the original Warhol-inspired collaboration while shopping at Barney's...which totally backs up my theory that shopping is, indeed, one of the h

Looking forward to long days with lot of sunshine made me check out what’s up in the research kitchen regarding wearable solar technology, speak flexible and hopefully lower cost solar panels. My most promising find: Konarka, one of the hot favorites in the field of wearable solar power working on Power Plastic® that converts light to [...]

Spring has officially arrived although in some areas there is not much of it to see yet. Nevertheless you have to plan ahead for the summer beach or pool season meaning: get in Shape now. For a starter, running is the most easiest to do which makes you loose some pounds on the way and you [...]

Dresses Diane von Furstenberg's one-shoulder tribal-print dress features wood bead embellishment at neckline and hem. Runway: Daytime dresses run the gamut from wildly printed dresses to short tunic dresses. Reality: You can give current tren... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

For a seamless integration of electronic into clothing solutions have to be found that conform with the surrounding material, in the case of Wearable Electronic this means with textiles. Most textiles are stretchable, at least to a certain extend. If the textiles would not stretch the wearing comfort would be very limited. The clothing will not [...]

So at last night's Heatherette for Mac New York Launch party, Angela Simmons wore the L.A.M.B. Denver Wedge Sneaker, which retails for $235.00. The shoe seems like a shoe an active grandma would... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

So at last night's Heatherette for Mac New York Launch party, Angela Simmons wore the L.A.M.B. Denver Wedge Sneaker, which retails for $235.00. The shoe seems like a shoe an active grandma would... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

No matter how safe manufactures try to make their motorcycles there is always one week point, the motorcyclists. The thing is when you fall of your bike the only thing that helps to take the impact is your crash helmet and your leathers. Well D-Tec system has been working for ten years on a protection system, [...]

I'm going to need this to stop. First it happened at the Welcome to the Dollhouse album signing at the Best Buy in New York. The culprits were Aubrey and Aundrea... Then it happened again, in a more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I'm going to need this to stop. First it happened at the Welcome to the Dollhouse album signing at the Best Buy in New York. The culprits were Aubrey and Aundrea... Then it happened again, in a more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Acrylic on 100% rag board, framed 2″ x 1.75″ framed size Painting will be sent with miniature display easel, gold gift box, and pin back added to be wearable art if buyer wishes (Please state if you’d like me to put on a pin back.) $100 via PayPal, $7 shipping within US This miniature sunrise is the perfect size [...]

So I was watching Making the Band 4 the other night and watched as Diddy gave the girls of Danity Kane an America's Next Top Model style makeover. Though I don't expect him to share a crying session... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

So I was watching Making the Band 4 the other night and watched as Diddy gave the girls of Danity Kane an America's Next Top Model style makeover. Though I don't expect him to share a crying session... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Leah Buechley the Innovator and Creator of the most advanced e-textile kit, the LilyPad Arduino, keeps on surprising the world with new ideas fusing electronic and clothing. Her latest work a turn signal biking jacket is an excellent example how e-textiles can add high value to ‘conventional’ clothing. Safety and visibility while cycling in low light [...]

The most visible use of Wearable Electronic technologies is in consumer products like clothing and bags. The value here is convenience, adding individuality or giving interactive decoration options. But the potential of Wearable Electronic technologies go far beyond the fashion market. Take for example the health care and medical sector. Nobody likes to get sick or [...]

So, I still haven't been able to drop that big dollar on a Marc Jacobs. I'm a little reluctant to do so, as I have to walk in the store with a lot of money and leave out with few items, just one to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). While the tiny computer that can store a week’s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT engineers borrow it, rig some adjustments and the locket meant to monitor a heart without hospital visits measures tremors in buildings instead.“I would be the first to buy one for my mother. The basic device is like plug-and-play,’’ said IIT’s professor Rakesh Lal, of the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, who conceptualised the project with professor S. Mukherji. “There isn’t another product like the silicon locket,’’ Lal told HT from the University of California where he is a visiting fel

Do you think you are an extreme sports guru that has all the gear? Well wrong think again, O'Neill has just launched the new wearable electronics GPS navigation jacket. So whether it's finding your way around the mountains or just trying to get home from the pub this is an essential tool. To find out all the information on the jacket simply click here Written by Daz for Product ReviewsIn Sections: Jackets, Clothing and Accessories

Our last Top 10 Christmas gift guide for Wearable Electronic gives a kaleidoscopic view on items ranging from books to DIY kits and other practical products. For book lovers among our reader we have or ‘Read This‘ section in our blog that gives an overview of interesting book about and around Wearable Electronic. You can find short reviews on this page as well as links to shopping sites to order our Christmas gift. My hottest tip for a Wearable Electronic book is Fashioning the Future from Suzanne Lee. A fabulous overview of the past, present and future of Wearable Electronic with many illustrations and inspiring text. Available by Amazon for $ 35.70 The second book tip is Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance by Matilda McQuaid. This book is not specific about Wearable Electronic but an excellent source of inspiration for future Intelligent Textile engineers and designer. Available by Amazon for $ 21.87 If you or the person you want to give a Christmas gift li

Wearable Art - Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve I was recently introduced to the world of wearable art which, as the name suggests, is a form of art where garments, textiles, jewelery and other fashion accessories are created as original, individually designed forms of artistic expression. The conventional criteria for creating clothing such as comfort, practicality and durability are thrown out the window with everything from rubber gloves to branches of trees being used in the creation of these wearable works of art. With seemingly no rules or limitations the wearable art movement has produced some amazing and spectacular pieces that look like they belong to an entirely different species from a land far away I am most intrigued with the works where the artist has approached the design of their creations as wearable sculptures that can exist as works of art in their own right without the need to be worn by someone. There are some pieces that seem to exhibit a level of restraint and res

According to the maker, ‘Moi is wearable electronic radiant light device. It is a wearable accessory representing a moment of magic. Everyone who has a MOI has a story to tell. Moi is a sparkle that creates a trail. A gift. The gift of light.’ Moi was conceived, designed, developed and produced by pixelpeppy, Ion Constas and Helena Papadopoulos. The three of them form the core of Studio 5050. Studio 5050 has created over the past few years experimental Wearable Electronic projects like the loveJackets, the hugJackets and the mbracelet to name a few but Moi is the first commercial product developed by Studio 5050. Moi is powered by a 3 volt replaceable battery available almost everywhere according to the creators. You can wear it as bracelet, as necklace or wrapped around straps coming out of jeans pockets or any way you like it. It gives a bit of sparkle to your life. This cute little star called Moi is available in White, Amber and green, costing $ 25.- each and can be o

I found a cute, simple electronic sewing kit offered by aniomagic.com that can make the perfect Christmas gift for the creative people among our reader. You might not be able to create with this kit such attention magnets like Moritz Waldermeyer did recently but you can create cute little Wearable Electronic fashion accessories for your bag or shirt or jacket. The site has some examples to demonstrate how the electrical sewing kit can be used and offers a detailed description with many photos to show how to work with the different components of the electronic sewing kit. No worry, it’s much easier as you might think thanks to the simplicity of this kit. The electronic sewing kit contains: two hand-made “LED sequins”, a fabric switch, soft battery holder and battery, conductive thread and a patch of fabric. The complete kit can be ordered here and goes for $ 15.- and shipping is free! Nwanua Elumeze, CEO and researcher on customizable clothing and jewelry is behind

O’Neill’s H4 design team has made video clips of the entire H4 Wearable Electronic range showing how to set up the jackets, backpack, glove and Audio Beanie. Certainly time well spend watching those video clips to get you an impression how Wearable Electronic clothing is used. No one less than O’Neill’s Mr. Wearable Electronic, Christiaan Roos, the designer and driving force of O’Neill’s Wearable Electronic product line, demonstrates how to get the H4 products up and running in no time. As the term Wearable Electronic implies, it’s a fusion of stuff you wear and electronics. Imagine getting a new Jacket and a new electronic gadget and get it ready for the first use. Actually you don’t have to imagine any more if you have seen those videos. As example I have added the video guide for the more complex but, as Christiaan will show you, easily to set up Comm Ent Jacket: A great gesture from the O’Neill team to put up online tho

Nokia has unveiled its latest concept phone, designed to highlight the company's focus on products that allow users to more readily stamp their personality on their gadgets.The concept phone, dubbed Aeon, combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. The handset's connectivity and electronics are built into the panels to allow them to be used independendently. When assembled, one panel would operate as the display, the other as the keypad. Since the buttons are entirely virtual, Aeon can flip instantly between a numeric pad for dialling, a text-entry pad for messaging, or a media-player controller.It's a cute idea and one that ties in with Nokia's expectation that phones will become essentially "wearable" devices - if foresees users removing one of Aeon's display panels and mounting it on a watch-like strap or worn as a badge.More than a phone, Aeon might tap into local wireless networks to transmit data acquired from sensors such as devices that monitor t

Our reader tamberg pointed us to the ‘digg me’ Shirt, a very well documented Wearable Electronic Instructables project and just the right stuff to write about at the end of the week when we switch to an more relaxed mode. The ‘digg me’ Shirt is a truly Wearable Electronic DIY project combining the usage and creativity of e-textiles, clothing and electronic elements. Besides many tips and tricks you will see on how to create your own DIY ‘digg-me’ shirt you will find a concept for making your own e-textile switch, very interesting and it looks that this switch works perfectly. The ‘digg-me’ shirt comes from Instructables member thydzik who has created an excellent instruction down to the smallest details on how everyone can/could create his/her own digg-me Shirt. A couple of YouTube hosted videos will help you to make your own shirt. The video below shows how the ‘digg-me’ Shirt works: working ‘digg me’ tshirt

Leah Buechley created in cooperation with Sparkfun the next generation of e-textile modules for the Wearable Electronic DIY enthusiasts: the LilyPad-Arduino set. To introduce Leah Buechely might not be needed for our regular readers and everyone interested into Wearable Electronics just so much, Leah is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado and a member of the Craft Technology Group. Her research interests in electronic textiles, wearable computing and human computer interaction paved her way to create the now famous LED tank top. Since then, Leah continuously developed further her tool kit for e-textiles which resulted in the latest and most sophisticated DIY kit for e-textiles I have ever seen before, the LilyPad. The LilyPad is designed with large connecting pads, to create an interface between small electronic components and textiles, to be sewn into clothing. Various input, output, power, and sensor LilyPads are available. Sparkfun started in 2002 fro

It was hard not to hear about the Wearable (Electronic) art from Star Simpson, an MIT student, that caused a security alert on Logan International Airport last Friday. I am not going to comment on the freedom art needs or takes, nor the creative free room ones needs to progress. The reason for me to pick this up is to avoid people thinking Wearable Electronic, the great passion of talk2myShirt, is in the same category as this recent demonstrated piece of art. Stitching a breadboard, commonly used for electronic design development and quick testing, onto a T-Shirt does not make it a Wearable Electronic consumer item, it is what it was originally designed and created for: a work of art. Using a work of art, any work of art, in public places requires to take into account social rules, call it etiquette, and more important, consideration for safety and security. Airports are very sensitive against any remotely suspicious looking object and persons. This is correct and gives us a relative

Whilst this is by no means the first wearable home cinema system – comparable devices have been widely available for years – the HeadPlay visor based system is certainly one of the most impressive we’ve come across in offering both 2D and 3D viewing, a cool 120 Hz refresh rate, stereo sound, and a plethora of a AV inputs and integral Wi-fi connectivity allowing you to hook up everything from DVD players to PCs and gaming consoles. Replicating the equivalent experience of viewing a 52” screen from six feet away, the HeadPlay Personal Cinema System consists of a visor offering 34 degrees field of view, built in 3D video encoding hardware and a native resolution of 800 x 600 pixels (scalable up to 1024 x 768 pixels) supported by a central hub, known as the Liberator, offing dual USB 2.0 ports (as well as a Mini USB port), compact flash slot, S-Video and VGA video inputs. And it’s the sheer scope of connectivity offered by the system’s Liberator hub that really serves to dist

Cloche hats, pearls and gloves - who said a girl can have too many accessories? The 1920s played inspiration to design duo Proenza Schouler, with beautiful dropped shoulder coats and flapper dresses looking extremely prim and proper. Ladylike also showed up at Marc Jacobs, where beautiful silk blouses were worn with calf-length skirts and day hats. Think Agatha Christie's murder mystery novels...Source

Out of the picture for the last couple of seasons - overshadowed by its sister the dress - skirt is firmly back in fashion focus.There's nothing like wearing a skirt to make a woman feel feminine yet empowered. It's a garment with many moods; the knee-length is perennially practical, the midi is easy and carefree while the mini is bold and brave. Check out the new season's skirt shapes with net-a-porter's tips on how we should wear them...

Here is an example of how Wearable Electronic products should not be made. The item in question is a Solar Backpack the online computer and peripherals shop Computer Supermarket from UK has added to their offerings. This backpack is made by Nanomars, a Taiwan based company that makes consumer electronic products and computer peripherals. Backpacks and bags from Nanomars have first surfaced on the Computex Taipei back in June. Nanomars uses glass solar panels that are easy to break, heavier and of course not bendable/flexible like the plastic solar panels that are used in all the other solar bag products we have posted about. To merge a stiff piece of technology like this type of solar panel with soft materials usually used in bags and backpacks (this model is not a hard shell backpack) is a big NO, style wise and function wise. Although we like every initiative to merge textiles with technology, using a stiff solar panel on an otherwise good looking backpack design does not fulfill th

Barbara Layne from Studio subTela designed the Jacket Antics, a Wearable Electronic concept that addresses the sensual part of our life, the softness of textiles, the love and romantic dreams. Barbara has developed a pair of his-and-hers jackets that use embedded LEDs on the back to send messages using scrolling words. The clothing senses when the wearers hold hands, allowing the message to run across both jackets. Traditional black linen yarns are hand woven alongside light emitting diodes, micro controllers and sensors. When the wearers hold hands, the LED arrays presents a third, synchronous message that scrolls from one to the other, presenting a new pattern of communication and expression. When the wearers release hands, the message reverts back to the individual themes. The capacity for interactivity in the animated cloth displays extend the narrative qualities of cloth and provide new possibilities for dynamic social interaction. Although we concentrate in our Blog mainly on We

Wearable Electronic products become an option when considering replacing or upgrading your wardrobe and outfit. Our recommendations for Back-to-School cool stuff is a list of items that are available for that cool and motivational upgrade for the coming School year. A bag is the most essential gear you need in your student life - and for that matter many other occasions like work life - so lets start looking around what is on offer right now. What comes to my mind first are the many multifunctional, iPod enabled, sound machine in a bag. Having used a iPod backpack myself for a couple of month now (I use the Nike C.O.R.E.) I do not want to miss anymore the convenience to quickly adjust the volume or but the iPod in pause mode when meeting and chatting to someone, be it a friend I bump into or in the store to check out something. G-Tech and Jansport have a large range of different styles, colors and functionality starting with the iPod ready remote control in the shoulder strap and goin

Runway: It's all about micro-length cocktail dresses in couture-like taffeta and deep jewel-toned duchesse satin.Reality: Add a dose of modern originality by teaming your mini-couture dress with punkish biker boots, a shrunken leather jacket and studded jewelry. Offset the femininity with chucky boots. Opt for box-clutches and oversized gems for the perfect finishing touch. To truly dress like a "Duchesse", choose an emerald or ruby satin strapless minidress.Source

Stand to attention, for classic army and navy styles are a surefire hit for the next season.Runway: With officers' coats and double-breasted pea jackets on offer, be ready to push Sgt. Pepper throughout fall.Reality: Make a seafaring impression in a navy wool number with gleaming brass buttons. Look out for collar details too, like stiff lapels, round necks and stand-up styles. Pick a coat in olive green, navy, charcoal or red and team it with chunky boots or patent platforms. You can also layer up in khaki tones or take a bold stand in sharp cuts decorated with buttons and braids. Glitzy embellishment gives the peacoat a Seargent Pepper spin.Sources: 1, 2

It's a fashion cliché but it's true: this season grey is most definitely the new black. Many designers showed it head to toe.Runway: Whatever you wore with black before, this season wear it with grey. Grey is the contemporary navy blue of fashion.Reality: Grey will be a fabulous substitute for khaki, this neutral shade has a soft sophisticated edge. Evoke the 1950s cocktail era in a little gray dress, team gray with brown for luxusious look, or inject a dash of drama by mixing gray with canary yellow or red. An embellished little gray dress is a glittering day-to-night option. Slink into a slouchy sweater dress for off-duty chic. Contrast the pared-down hue with bright colored accessories or elegant box-clutch.Photo Sources: 1, 2

Wearable Electronics business news coverage from this week: 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 files directly to an SD card, which can then be inserted easily into any PC for insta

Having the right outfit and tools in business life is very important for any deal. Be it to close a contract with your customer, get a new client or impress your boss to get you noticed and the promotion you deserve. To give you some ideas for your business outfit, we have compiled a list of unique, innovative products that will help you in achieving your business goals by showing that you are ‘in the know’ of the latest developments. The start of our list makes the iPod suit from Marks & Spencer. It has a decent look that will blend into any board room seamless except for the fact that you have a discretely hidden feature at your disposal, the iPod control on the inside of the label. Unfortunately there is no iPod enabled business attire for women on the market yet - Listen up all you clothing companies out there and change that soon! What will you get by wearing this suit: appreciative looks and the image of being someone that likes to add a twist to the game of life

The next Big thing in Wearable Electronic will be light emitting textiles. While the controls (Eleksen) and sound elements (NXT) reached a certain maturity in the integration into clothing and other soft goods, light emitting textiles still have a long way to go. Display like concepts are available from NYX and Lumalive, the former in mono color the later in full color, both work in principle as dot-matrix displays that allow dynamic content. Other technologies such as EL-foils and glass fiber yarn illuminate textiles are on the market but they offer only static light pattern. Getting display like functionality into clothing or soft goods like bags for the consumer market still remains a field to be explored. One of such exploration to bring display functionality into clothing is the European Union Framework 6 project Modecom. Modecom is a €1.3M (around 1.8M US$) three-year project by an international consortium of researchers could help bring to mass market organic light emitting d

Calling all romantics! According to Marc Jacobs (at Louis Vuitton), the sweetest things come with ruffles and bows. So if you're already bored with cyber-chic and the overtly sexy 'she woman' style, then fall in love with feminine shapes and flirt with florals, silk, soft linen and pretty knits.Runaway: Not-so-hopeless romantics will adore this season's frills and femininityReality: Balance super-feminine dresses with platform sandals or add some retro glamour with jewelled flats and metallic leather bags.Source

Sumptuous Satin! Embellishments! Corsages! Steal the spotlight at a film festival in a ravishing full-length draped evening gown or an embellished calf-length dress and team up with flamboyant footwear.Runway: Designer fashion is made for the skinny. It's sad, but true.Reality: Know which hues work best with your skin and hair. Make either the dress or the accessories the focus, not both. Have fun with fashion by trying something new and pushing the limits of your wardrobe to experience innovative looks. Always remember that nothing kills a red carpet look quicker than bad hair. Whether it's too casual or too contrived for the dress, the wrong hairdo can make or break a star's look.Photo Source

Hi people, if you are a genius like Albert Einstein and wish to get One Million Bucks you need to read all about this advise.The U.S. Department of Defense throght Defense Research and Engineering Continuing with its mission to ensure that the warfighters today and tomorrow have superior and affordable technology to support their misión, and to give them revolutionar´y war-winning capabilities, made public the prize program draws upon innovation from a broad range of sources to provide superior technical solutions for the individual energy needs of Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Sailors in the field.The Department of Defense wanna develop for a wearable power system that lasts four days and reduces the weight of the battery load typically carried by those in the field.The prizes:1st Place = $1M2nd Place = $500K3rd Place = $250KWinning Criteria The lightest weight system weighing 4kg or less after completing the full competitive demonstration is the winner. Second and thi

Propeller Inc., a product development firm from New Jersey, and True Inc., Thailand's leader in telecommunications, have put their heads together to come up with the True Wearable.This concept True Wearable is a portable media player (PMP) that you wear on your wrist. The watch features GPS navigation, web browsing ability, gaming and also video chat. Also as can be expected from a PMP it needs to play audio and video which the creator says it will do a wide range of formats.More related:M60M Concept WatchOrange Mini Wind-Powered Phone ChargerGeekPark Web CamAnimated Transformers ShirtFloyd Cup RingFlapFlap Floating LampHard Drive Desk ClockMicrosoft Zune on hold in EuropeWebble - Foot RestLiveScribe SmartPenObjet B’ Art XL (AMP)Monument To SmileWorlds Largest Mercedes Benz ShowroomTrioBike - Worlds First Carrierbike, Bike And Push...Hybrid Assistive Limb ( HAL )How To Freeze Beer Instantly

Powered with a AMD Au1100 400MHz 32-bit MIPS processor and 64 MB RAM, we have the stunning Zypad WL 1000 all dressed to kill and with all you can ever imagine, it can be worn on your wrist! I’m totally serious. In spite of all that it offers, the Zypad is pretty comfortable to wear and isn’t all that bulky either. Weighing 10.23 ounces and with dust and water resistance, this makes a perfect wear. The makers have even fitted in a 3.5' TFT touchscreen with automatic contrast adjustment via ambient light sensor. Blessed with an integrated L1 band 12-channel GPS receiver and helix antenna, it also has USB connectivity, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IEEE802.11. The features go on and on and I keep drooling my tongue dry. The entire kit comes with a dual battery charger, vehicle power supply, three pieces of pen assembly and a few bits of protective skin for the delicate display.(Via Gizmodude.com.)

Our first follow-up review of the great things around Wearable Electronic on stage last week during Avantex is about the newly introduced control modules from Eleksen. There are 5 ‘ready to sell’ functions like: Volume Control (for any audio device with a 3.5mm headphone socket), the Sony Ericsson Controller, the iPod Controller, the iPod+Bluetooth Controller and the new FM Radio module. You may ask: “what’s the big deal about that?” To start with, this modules are good news for garment companies because the ‘only’ thing they have to integrate into future clothing is the ElekTex fabric keypad with the standardized connector to the modules. No risk in making too much or less clothing items with the ‘wrong’ function. The added value = function of the clothing and other accessories is defined by - you, the customer. You choose a Wearable Electronic ready clothing item or bag and buy the control module you need and like. Even better,

Angel Chang is the most outstanding Fashion Designer who can blend technology and fashion in the most advanced and beautiful way. The way she thinks about fashion and technology is outstanding, head over to the write up we have posted back in January or to her site. Hussein Cahalayan is doing a great job in experimenting with technology and fashion but Angel Chang is creating real world clothing that look like ‘out of this world’. Her Fall 2007 collection include great looking dresses with iPod controls. We like the way she integrates almost invisible those controls. This is what makes her creations outstanding. Angel Chang is not ‘only’ using electronic functions for integration, another part of her collection has Thermochromic ink. This Thermochromic ink print pattern change their intensity/visiblity depending on the surrounding temperature. Those parts of the fabric that are closer to the skin are warmer and the print will ‘disappear’. Other pa

Never before have been so many experts and companies in the field of Wearable Electronic, e-textiles or Intelligent clothing (to give it a name) together on one place to share information about research activities, show the latest and finest design concepts and products - yes, real world products and not just ideas ‘to-be-realized’. Not to forget, those few days gave plenty of opportunity for networking, seeing ‘old friends’ and meet new people and companies with ideas ideas and products around Wearable Electronic. To wrap up Avantex, at least for today, some additional photos of design concepts waiting to be produced: The left photo shows design concepts from Cetemmsa, a Spanish company offering the service of creating the Wearable Electronic part to fashion designer. A interesting concept we will pick up in the coming days and look in more details into that. The photo in the center shows the newest version of Hohensteiner Institute’s Solartex Solar clo

I have spend today walking the show floor of Avantex 2007 in Frankfurt to give you a first impression of the many many models on display. 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 (exce

The body is the same temperature as all that expensive laboratory equipment that keeps cells alive... so why not use the body to nurture living material inside a test tube? The IncuBra takes advantage of the cleavage nook, to regulate the temperature for cell cultures. The new version of this smart, wearable corset by Cynthia Verspaget and Adam Fiannaca, was on its way to the Bios 4 exhibition, but alas, became lost luggage. The artists presented this interesting concept, as well as images of the previous version of the project at the Bios 4 symposium, which made me want to see it even more. To find out if it ever makes it back to Australia, where the artists live, check up on the IncuBra blog.

Our headline today may be a little bold but this statement was triggered by a press release from www.prnewswire.com This press release is about UniFirst, one of North America’s largest workwear and textile services companies. According to this release, 33 million people are wearing uniforms on the job and soon some 1.2 million people will begin wearing uniforms this year by joining the workforce. The fabrics used in some uniforms today can whisk moisture away from the skin and repel staining. Other fabrics can destroy illness-bearing bacteria says Robert Isaacson, Director of Marketing for UniFirst. “Proof of that can already be seen in a current trend to develop uniforms using wearable electronic fabrics that can keep tabs on a wearer’s vital signs and even dispense necessary first-aid medications,” Isaacson says. We mainly focus in our postings on talk2myShirt about the use of Wearable Electronic technologies in fashion, clothing and sport but indeed, some of

If you have read even one article on this site, you know that I am always on the lookout for new, unique, and innovative products and designs. Hence the attraction to Alex Story Jewelry. Alex’s background is in sculpture, metal smithing, and welding. She trained in these crafts in Paris and London, but found her creations difficult to transport. Upon returning to her native New York, Alex turned towards jewelry, creating wearable sculptures that were far easier to pack in a suitcase. This ring is Alex’s Deco Ring - no wonder I am drawn to it. I adore art deco architecture, and this ring certainly echos that style, still visible in many Los Angeles buildings. I love that the ring doesn’t connect all the way. While planning my wedding, I heard over and over that the significance of the wedding ring was to represent the unbreakable flow of love, the circle of life, yadda yadda yadda. I am certainly not sentimental, so I love that this is quietly breaking the rule

The most important and likely the biggest event for Wearable Electronic in 2007 will start next week in Frankfurt, Germany. Avantex and Techtextil 2007 will open its doors on June 11 for 4 days of highly interesting seminars and exhibitions on the future of clothing and textile innovation. It is the second time those two events are held at the same time and the same place. Avantex target groups of designers and garment manufacturers, focuses on high-tech apparel textiles and presents developments ranging from the concept to the prototype stages. Techtextil is the world largest Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens. This almost guaranties a highly charged atmosphere for participants from the industry and businesses but also for the visitors of the exhibitions. Unlike the Smart Fabrics 2007 in May which was more focused on technologies, the Avantex 2007 is more about consumer presentation. Companies will show on the floor the latest developments and creation in the Smart Clot

The NHJ VTV-101 TV wristwatch is a gadget-guru's fantasy toy, a must have for sports fans, and a conversation-starter for any occasion. Never miss an important news bulletin, TV show, or sporting moment again and enjoy them anywhere! Not only is it a color television, but it's also a wristwatch! This Wearable Portable TV Wristwatch features 1.5-inch TFT LCD color monitor with 280 x 220 pixels, manual and auto tuning, and can receive 2-13 VHF channels and 14-69 UHF channels. The watch also has a second, smaller LCD for displaying time, month, date and year. Just put on the earphone antenna, tune it to your favorite channel, and enjoy the show! A genius invention for the sports nut this mini TV keeps the action on hand and the wearer free to wander. Equipped with a 1-1/2" TFT liquid crystal display, the digital wristwatch TV produces a crisp, clean, 280 x 220-resolution color picture. A specially designed Sony micro tuner and headphone antenna pull in both UHF and VHF channels (recept

"It's a headset you wear around your head like a halo. It surrounds you with six separate mini-speakers." These were the words used to describe the TubeSurround Sound headphones to us, and they were enough to send us into paroxysms of dork delight. This trippy piece of headgear aims to provide the wearer with a six-speaker listening experience, by actually having six speakers surround your skull.

Talking about Do-It-Yourself in Wearable Electronics means talking about the work of Leah Buechley. She is the Master of e-textiles and created over the last few years a exiting range of ideas, designs and DIY instructions for e-textiles. Leah introduced a construction kit for electronic textiles in spring 2006. A set of stitchable controllers, sensors and actuators that enable novices to build their own electronic textiles. The different elements are created by using her fabric PCB technique: microcontrollers, sensors and other devices that are soldered to fabric PCBs. The finished elements can be stitched together with conductive thread into custom Wearable Electronic clothing or other fashion accessories. Have a look to the excellent guidelines and explanations Leah is giving on her site to build your first e-textile kit. This spring, she introduces the e-textile construction kit version 2.0 with the words: “There is no reason for fabric circuits to mimic the look of traditi