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From FT member Angela Sheehan, these fab video glasses use digital photo keychains on a slideshow setting to replicate the 'video' effect as seen in Lady GaGa's performances.

Pretty Fantastic!

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I'm unusually enthusiastic about this holiday season. I've already started making gifts and holiday decorations. I made a few handmade LED snowflake ornaments that I would like to share with the community. They are super-easy to make and only take about 15-20 minutes each (depends on how long you experiment w… Continue

The LED Kimono is one of the more sophisticated performance-oriented wearable technologies to date. The project is designed and fabricated by composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka.

Embroidered with 444 individually controlled LED’s, the kimono sleeve functions as a low-resolution textile video screen and expressive interface.

In its current version, it res… Continue

Using a heart rate monitor, a hacked MP3 player and a Lilypad Arduino, two students Dana Ramler (Industrial Design) and Holly Schmidt (MAA) from Emily Carr University developed a vest that monitor's the wearer's heart rate and, in response, plays a set of soundscapes.

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The Heartbeat Necklace is one of several biometric projects developed by the designer/engineer duo Vanessa Carpenter and Dzi. Vanessa and Dzi make up GeekPhysical, an interactive studio that "create[s] interactive experiences, installations, happenings, or playful rendezvous."… Continue

Photo by Featherlove Photography

I hope you all have a warm and pleasurable Thanksgiving! Starting Monday we will have a flurry of posts, holiday gift guides for the geeky fashionista and some fun DIY projects to create for your home.

cheers,

syuzi

Kirk Mueller, a new media artist, transforms decorative silkscreened wallpaper into dynamic, pattern-changing skins for your walls with the help of the arduino, smart and conductive inks.

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Regardless of how you feel about Rihanna's performance at the AMA's, her laser-enhanced costume stole the show.

She looked quite fierce all bondaged up with lasers shooting out of her shoulder pads.

Rihanna's outfit follows Bono's… Continue

In it's simplicity and wit, See-thru-me is a one of those projects where the fusion of fashion and technology creates a truly "magical" experience. Developed by Meg Grant, the concept is based on illusion of the body being porous or transparent. When a light is illuminated on the back of the wearer, the LEDs on the front of the garment light up.

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Paper Computing Modules by Leah Buechley

TEI, the conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, is now open for registration.

TEI'10 will all be held at the MIT Media Lab, located in the heart of the MIT campu… Continue

Designed and developed by dutch designer Stijn Ossevoort, Flare is an electronic dress embroidered with wind sensitive dandelions. As the wind gently caresses the dress or if you "blow" on the dandelions themselves, a pattern of lights will twinkle across the dress.

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Swedish designer Hedvig af Ekenstam transforms the common household device — the radiator — into lovely decorative items for the home. Ekenstam knits radiators from twisting and turning heating cables, creating exquisit… Continue

Quite amazing. if you missed the blog post, read about the Galaxy Dress here. Continue

E-pressed is a warm, cozy sweater that monitor's the wearers "inner state" via a custom galvanic skin resistor sensor and creates awareness of "negative emotions" by communicating to the wearer and others.
Rather than asking how someone is doing… Continue

On and off the runway, fashion that rivets our imagination is often lyrical, transformative and even subversive. Fashion, of course, is sensitive to the cultural mood of its time. With "renewable energy" being the current muse in politics, the… Continue

I've seen lots of recycled circuit board jewelry, but none that compares to the intricate handiwork of artist Gabriel Dishaw's sculptures made from recycled metals and electronic scraps.… Continue

The Lilypad Layout is a tool available on Openprocessing.org that allows you to visualize or digitally sketch out a circuit before… Continue

Another interesting project developed as part of the physical computing course at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola is an armband made from conductive textiles and threads that is used to control and play the game of Tetris.

The armband (or sleeve) uses the sway of the wrist to move the pieces left and right, clenching of the fist for rotation, and the extension of the arm to make the pieces fall.

The armband itself is connected… Continue

The AIRduino Guitar is a wearable virtual guitar that is "played" with two hands much like playing Air Guitar.
The system consists of a "stick" that triggers sound, a glove that sets the tone and an Arduino of course.

Using ultra sonic sensors to measure the distance between the hands, the distance of the string to glove changes the tone from low (far) to high (close). An accelerometer is used to trigger sound.

The AIRduino Guitar was developed by David Fournier, Jean-Louis… Continue

Special effects typically are a feature of the runaway show — not the dresses themselves. The Galaxy Dress, on the other hand, is one spectacular special effect — the most dramatic evolution in 21st-century fashion.

24000 full color LEDs, measuring a mere… Continue