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by on May 30, 2006
What are the motivators to buy gadgets? Functionality? Feature? Comfort? Not really. Some of you may know that I run an ad company.Thats why markets and marketing is part of my job. What I learned is...
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Next step for Apple to become a fashion company: Nike and Apple connect sport shoe and iPod. It means nothing less then the age of techwear has finally begun. And the big bang is a gadget and clothes...
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The "global" in GPS becomes local. Sport enthusiasts all over the world not only measure their heart rate but every information they can get. The scientist in you wants to know everything...
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Just a note about a TV show in Europe that broadcasted an overview about hightech textiles. First of all, in future Europe can not compete in the traditional textiles business. These materials (like...
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by on May 11, 2006
The best ideas are easy like this one found at WMMNA. A jacket that shows you the point of the compass. It's nothing revolutionary but the design is still great and seamless. It's not "a...
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by on May 07, 2006
"Be a Freeporter": social behavior changes because of new technologies. In the next years mobile solutions will be the key driver for this process. Look at all the mobile phones with camera...
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by on May 01, 2006
Sometimes it's more then interesting (and fun too) to go back in time and check what kind of predictions people made. I found one of those market predictions from 2002. You may think the data is...
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by on April 12, 2006
Social behavior is kinda basic know how for designer. Motorola presents the next key word for a generation: "Here". This is the result of a global study. In their own words: Motorola's...
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by on March 05, 2006
Want to know what our future will be about? Friedemann Mattern, director of the institute for "Pervasive Computing" from the ETH Zurich talks about "Ambient Intelligence" and...
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by on September 13, 2005
Sorry, but sometimes I dont understand the US way to handle a patent. One good example. I think that it makes sense to use wearable computing technologies for toys. But whenever you think about a...
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by on July 18, 2005
Third and last part of mobiles and Wearable Computing. Here are some more interesting ideas from the current issue of Pervasive Computing. One article is called "ContextPhone: A Prototyping...
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by on July 16, 2005
What makes mobiles so interesting when it comes to wearable computing? The new issue of Pervasive Computing gives an answer. As promised yesterday a short overview or you: Pervasive Computing compares...
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by on July 15, 2005
The new issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing is about mobiles and how they already work as ubiquitous computer. From my view all gadgets are a kind of "in-between". That means between personal...
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News.com gives an overview of Intel's activities in the field of sensor, wireless and wearable technologies. Among those experiments are - a bed that monitors health related data of your baby...
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by on June 10, 2005
"Any day now, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down the most important decision of the digital age in the MGM v. Grokster case." What has this to do with Wearable Computing? SmartMobs...
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by on June 07, 2005
The Gizmag is an amazing source about techwear products. Under the category "Wearable Electronics" they list a lot of them. But even more you'll get a deep Insight into each product and...
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by on June 04, 2005
Infineon announced the management buy-out of Interactive Wear AG i.G., thats the former unit who produced a mp3-and mobil jacket together with O'Neill. Interactive Wear was founded pretty fast...
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by on May 27, 2005
How digital technology will sew itself into the fabric of future fashions was the subject of a recent talk at the London College of Fashion (LCF), entitled 'Interrogating Fashion: New Paradigms...
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by on May 27, 2005
Music is such an integral part of fashion today, i wonder if we will see a real wearable computing solution till end of the year. Sorry, nope, the typical products are nice, but not yet...
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