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The US Future Force Warrior Program is developing new equipment for soldiers. Not expected to be in full […]
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, watch company Timex teamed up with Core77 for a design competition: Timex2154: THE […]
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A life-saving shirt that can call for help when its wearer falls has reportedly been developed professor Francis […]
Two Stanford biologists, Dennis Grahn and H. Craig Heller, have developed a method for cooling that maximizes heat […]
The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion are working on a ‘smart’ clothing which adapts […]
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UK angina patients are being offered Enhanced External Counterpulsation or EECP, a vibrating trousers treatment that works by […]
Paddy Hartley has created face corsets that alter the shape of the wearer’s face. Through the corsets, the […]
I want to blog about Immersion’s CyberGlove for ages (well, just a couple of weeks actually.) It’s Saturday, […]
The wearable Halfkeyboard was designed to let you turn your PDA into a wearable computer. Via La Petite […]
The TALON robots by Foster-Miller are equipped with off-the-shelf chemical, gas, temperature, and radiation sensors that can be […]
Radionics pioneer Duncan Laurie created magickal socks that “feature a working radionics device stitched into the fabric, which […]
Wearable Computer specialist, Xybernaut, has patented a “WEARABLE COMPUTER SYSTEM INTEGRATED WITH A GARMENT COLLAR“. Computer components –a […]
In Korea (but this goes for other markets), makers are now promoting MP3 players as a fashion accessory. […]
Emily Conrad makes lockets you can wear on a necklace. They store a USB, a memory chip, and […]
In June, Logitech’s KeyCase won a 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award. The keyboard wraps around the Palm when […]
Piers Tucker, a 24 year-old British graduate from Brunel design school has created a GPS-fitted motorbike helmet that […]
President’s plenipotentiary in Siberian region Anatoly Kvashnin suggested chief of Russian Armed Forces to use the new self-heating […]
The “streetka” dress is the product of a co-operation between Ford Cars and designer British Bruce Oldfield. The […]
Brian Lonsway ‘s research focuses on the relationships between architecture and informatics, and in particular, the development of […]
Last year, three players died as a direct result of injuries suffered on the football field, two of […]
It may have started with the spy phone built into secret agent Maxwell Smart’s left shoe on the […]
Matsushita Electric Works has developed the human skin data transmission technology and started selling it to manufacturers of […]
SCOTTeVEST (SeV) and Global Solar Energy announced that the solar-powered jacket designed to carry, connect and charge portable […]
LUME is an LED embedded fabric that offers energy efficient light in a versatile form factor. Unlike traditional […]
Farrah Sit from the Rhode Island School of Design has received the I.D. Magazine Design Distinction for the […]
“Colors: Viktor & Rolf KCI” exhibition, which opened at the Mori Art Museum last week, is a study […]
Fuji is working on a digital camera glove concept. With moving the fingers the shutter is triggered. The […]
Sooo many bags I’d like to put my hands on: The courtly bags by Despina Papadopoulos for Studio […]
Israeli physicist Glen Guttman has developed a motorcycle air conditioner, an electronic unit powered by a standard motorcycle […]
Today’s athletes at the Olympics wear full body high-tech suits which create less drag and turbulence, allowing athletes […]
I had read about the SEVEN MILE BOOTS, a pair of interactive shoes with audio allowing their wearer […]
HearWear , developed by Younghui Kim and Milena Iossifova, is a skirt that reacts to urban noise with […]
Medulla Intimata , created by Tom Donaldson and Tina Gonsalves, explores how video can be made more intimate […]
Elise Co investigates how technology could be applied to fashion in an expressive way. Among the projects she […]
The project ‘Scentient Beings’ by Jenny Tillotson implants smell technology into multi-sensorial clothing and turns the living dress […]
Hotspot Bloom by Karen Lee is a wearable artificial flower that sheds lights to indicate the availability of […]
The SoundSleeves project by Vincent Leclerc uses the sleeve as a musical instrument. These sleeves are sensitive to […]
Texan Alison Lewis’s thesis project “Closer: Wearables for a distant society” aims at creating wearable interactive art which […]
A new jacket from German clothing firm Rosner incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player controlled through cloth buttons on […]