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Riccardo Marchesi Textile perfboard

Our textile perfboard has been added to our products on www.plugandwear.com

This is a knitted fabric that is being developed to solve the lack of 100% soft textile perfboards. It is a striped fabric with a 2.54 mm (0.1") pitch (the same one you find on standard perfbo… Continue

Added by Riccardo Marchesi on December 21, 2009 at 11:46pm — No Comments

Syuzi Intimacy— A Sensual Haute-tech Wearable

Intimacy-Wearable Tech

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde creates a sensual, practically mischievous, wearables in his latest project Intimacy. Intimacy is about technology becoming intimate extensions of our skins. Developed by his lab,… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Syuzi Illuminated Gibson Guitar with LEDs and Lasers

Laser Guitar

Moritz Waldemeyer does it again! He's the go-to guy for the music industry to create magical, illuminated outfits and now — instruments. I was loving Rihanna'… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 18, 2009 at 10:23am — No Comments

Syuzi C02 Dress — A Beautiful Pollution Sensing Dress

C02 Dress

A wonderful collaboration between diffus.dk, Alexandra Institute, The Danish Design School and embroidery company Forster… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 16, 2009 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Vanessa Carpenter Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree.

Surface mount LEDs resting delicately on copper wires twined together to create beautiful shimmering LED trees, Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree. We created a beautiful tree, a s… Continue

Added by Vanessa Carpenter on December 16, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Syuzi Pong Prom — Multi-player Wearable Gaming Interface

Pong Prom

Pong Prom, developed by Ed Keeble, transforms the body into an interface to control the game of pong. In designing Pong Prom, Keeble has taken on the challenge of designing a wearable gaming interface that works with two players, resulting in an experience that is both collabor… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 15, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Syuzi Fragile Light Objects

Light Objects Wearable Sculptures

Delicately dangling from a shirt pocket or wrapped around one's wrist, Zuzana Serbak's fabric sculptures are inspired by the concept of "fragile conductivity." In her wearable art, Serbak embraces LEDs more for their ephemeral materiality (light) rather than computational capability (display).

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Added by Syuzi on December 14, 2009 at 3:47pm — No Comments

Syuzi Gareth Pugh’s (un)Wearable OLED Dress

OLED Dress

English fashion designer Gareth Pugh has fashioned a dress made from OLEDs (organic LEDs) panels. OLEDs entry into the market promises a more light efficient display technology compared to traditional LEDs. According to Wired, "the plasti… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 12, 2009 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Syuzi Animated Textiles using Shape Memory Alloys

The above video is wonderful example of a textiles study using Shape Memory Alloys by Lynda Fletcher, currently a student at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. The project was inspired by the Arctic fox and its ability to adapt to temperature changes by increasing the thickness of its coat during the cooler seasons. The textile study was an examination of how a change in temperature can affect the textiles… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 10, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

Syuzi Nomadic Wonderland — A DIY Approach to Sustainable Fashion

Nomadic Wonderla

Lasercut, modular pieces of dense fabric are "snapped" together like a construction set to create fashions that suit the body as much as the interior walls that house it. Eunsuk Hur, a textile designer and a recent graduate from… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 9, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Syuzi RFID Glove for Interactive Object-based Storytelling

The Reading Glove, developed by Josh Tanenbaum, is an RFID glove that extracts digital information embedded in objects. In this project, it is used as a novel, non-linear interactive form of storytelling. As the wearer picks up objects embedded with a unique RFID tag, the objects reveals its latent digital story in the form of of audio, projected visualizations, and text. The glove is made using an Arduino Lillypad Mic… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 7, 2009 at 9:40am — No Comments

Syuzi RFID Glove for Interactive Object-based Storytelling

The Reading Glove, developed by Josh Tanenbaum, is an RFID glove that extracts digital information embedded in objects. In this project, it is used as a novel, non-linear interactive form of storytelling. As the wearer picks up objects embedded with a unique RFID tag, the objects reveals its latent digital story in the form of of audio, projected visualizations, and text. The glove is made using an Arduino Lillypad Mic… Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 7, 2009 at 9:20am — No Comments

Syuzi Holiday Gift Guide: Awesome DIY Kits

DIY Kits

This holiday season give the gift of creating with these wonderful DIY Kits.

MUJI LEGO Kit

Muji LEGO Ki

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Added by Syuzi on December 4, 2009 at 12:14pm — No Comments

Syuzi DIY Lady GaGa Video Glasses

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! Thanks Angela! Continue

Added by Syuzi on December 3, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Angela Sheehan Temperature Sensing Coffee/Tea Sleeve

Right now I am challenging myself to make a soft circuit project every weekend and this week's project was a coffee sleeve with LEDs and a temperature sensor from Aniomagic. It was inspired by their tutorial on 'smart coaster' and translated from plastic/wired to a fleece and soft version.… Continue

Added by Angela Sheehan on December 2, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Syuzi Illuminated Snowflake Ornament Tutorial

DIY Illuminated Snowflake Ornament Tutorial

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

Added by Syuzi on December 2, 2009 at 3:46pm — 5 Comments

Syuzi LED Kimono — Interactive Wearable Musical Instrument

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

Added by Syuzi on December 2, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

Syuzi Bio Circuit Vest — A Wearable Soundscape

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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Added by Syuzi on December 1, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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Added by www.woolfelt.in on December 1, 2009 at 6:59am — No Comments

Syuzi Biometric Jewelry — The Heartbeat Necklace

Biometeric Jewelry

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

Added by Syuzi on November 30, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

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