Last weekend we pointed you to a simple DIY electronic embroidery project demonstrating how easy it can be to create a cute, unique piece of embroidery with sparkling elements. This weekend we introduce you to a more advanced electronic embroidery project from Becky Stern using the LilyPad Arduino which allows highly sophisticated interactivity with your embroidery [...]

Orit Zuckerman created back in 2005 the TapTap scarf, a wearable haptic system that allows nurturing human touch to be recorded, broadcast and played back for emotional therapy. Unlike the Hug Shirt from CuteCircuit which transmits hugs send over cell-phone networks from far away, the TapTap concept records taps or hugs of your partner or someone [...]

O’Neill, leading brand in the wearable electronic sport and outdoor apparel segment has introduced a ‘worlds first’, ready-to-wear active audio fashion line for the autumn/winter season 2008/09. The new Audio Hooded Top for women and the Audio Hoody Sweat for men come with an integrated audio system. The practicality is obvious: listening to music all day [...]

Feeling already the cold? Winter is just around the corner so we prepared another hot tip to stay warm while outdoors. The relatively new material of carbon fibers specially treated to make them electrically conductive with high resistance level and woven to textiles, creating heat generating fabrics allow apparel designer to create slim, invisible integration of [...]

I wonder what it may take to get all the fantastic ideas created around ‘living’ materials into consumer products. Here is an example I found on the www from designer Danielle Sobik, a couch that interacts with people by creating dynamic patterns depending on who is sitting on it and how people sit (together) on it. Not [...]

Rainy days are usually grey days and if the rain stays for too long, the grey reflects on our mood as well. Late autumn is such a typical time of the year where grey and rain are often dominant. To bring some colorful light into rainy days check out Puddlejumper, a concept from Elise Co, multimedia [...]

The cute little DIY e-Embroidery project from Becky Stern the ‘Frog catches firefly’ is a very simple way to get craft enthusiasts exploring the e-textile world. The materials needed are simple: 2 LEDs, a switch, a coin cell battery and battery holder which is designed in a way to have holes to sew it onto fabric [...]

Burton has a long tradition in fusing technology with textiles by launching the first commercially available backpack with integrated remote control (designed for Sony’s MD player) back in 2002, a revolutionary new concept at that time. For the winter 2008/09 season, Burton is pushing the boundaries of interactive fashion again by launching the Ronin Audio Stroll [...]

Fitting pillows with technology goes back to 2001 as far as I could find out when Annie Lovejoy made an ‘exploration of emergent and redundant technologies, the proliferation of components / hardware and data which is intricately embroidered in a tapestry of systems’ resulting in the first interactive pillow concept. Since then we have seen pillows [...]

Our contribution to beat the current money shortage is to be on constant lookout for great bargains in the interactive fashion store enabling you to cheer yourself or others up with a unique present. A hot tip is the iBlaze, a gorgeous looking backpack that has been made around an iPod - not for the iPod. It [...]