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on November 16, 2006
The electronica 2006 opened in Munich, Germany and they have a wearable technologies section too.
Adidas and Atlantik Networxx present a hi-tech martial arts vest that was tested in Taekwondo alread...
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on November 8, 2006
What a success! My congratulations to CuteCircuit for the Time Best Invention price this year!!! I hope that it will make a great idea famous! The Hug Shirt integrates wearable technologies and the so...
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on November 7, 2006
A next intermediate step in wearable electronics - a Dick Tracy like watch that is packed with features:
Check out this ultra-modern timepiece from Brando, squeezing MP3, video playback, a voice recor...
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on November 1, 2006
Casio is back :-) Do you remember the 80ies? Unthinkable without digital watches from Casio. And now they are back with 21century technology: GPS. Of course within a watch - what is a remarkable tiny ...
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on October 26, 2006
Is it more then design only? Korean scientists at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute developed a shirt that measures bio data and looks not like a tech-parc...
The BioShirt is ...
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on October 26, 2006
So what is Ambient Intelligence? It's like Techwear - but - with objects instead of clothes. The main idea stays the same: build sensors into something and connect it to something else.
Here is a...
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on October 24, 2006
Looks like I found the killer-app for the over-stressed manager of today (and many other within the "burn-out-zone"). Medick Healthcare has launched a personal heart monitor called MHM 100. ...
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on October 18, 2006
polo-Shirts.co.uk reports about a new T-Shirt with build in clock. Cool idea - if the design is brilliant. However, I found no other news about it but would love to see a picture. Help anywhere?
A ne...
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on October 14, 2006
Looks like logistics is a main application field for wearable computing. Here is the next computer for the logistics business.
The HX2 computer is a small, light-weight data collection computer desig...
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on October 14, 2006
Some trends reported from the ISPO (huge fashion fair) and the Outdoor (huge outdoor fashion fair):
Portable technology is now being developped by several brands. +++ LEVI'S has launched a line of...
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on October 11, 2006
Symbol introduces the WT4000 Series Wearable Terminal - a mobile computer that is wearable and works in different environments with it's hands-free interface.
The company focusses on the B2B busi...
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on October 7, 2006
Konica Minolta developed a new display and is looking for possible applications. The technology sounds nice:
The Holographic See-Through Browser prototype resembles a pair of eyeglasses and uses a pr...
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on October 5, 2006
The Oktoberfest is the most famous beer-fest in the world and so typical German.
The last days I heard a podcast about the point that less people wear the traditional Bavarian clothes at the Oktoberf...
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on September 28, 2006
Just to stay a bit in the toy industry here are some other examples - not really for computer technology, but for a good social interface design. This means I like these examples because of their unde...
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on September 27, 2006
Today Toys become smarter and smarter. It's just amazing to look at this market. Sometimes I think we will see intelligent toys before we have such robots..
Here is a next one from Bandai called ...
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on September 26, 2006
Yesterday I found a website about diving computer. Because I'm not a diver I have no glue about them but it looks like even there is a market for wearable computing.
Beside many functions I foun...
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on September 16, 2006
Something here reminds me to the movie Matrix- and that things come true.
An Infineon spin-off can produce Electric power from your body. The basic technology is called "Peltier Cooler" (se...
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on September 16, 2006
Imagine an electrocardiogram without the need to go to the doctor and with much better data. This is what the ECG T-shirt will be about. It's a research project at the EMPA. This institut works in...
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on September 1, 2006
Where is the fitness industry going? Gadgets, gadgets, wearable. Thats the key-message from "The Raw Story". The experts see a huge trend to more equipment. Even if they think that not all i...
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on August 31, 2006
The Techwear Weblog is not a shopping blog at all. However, why not give a tip to my reading wearable fan audiance. Kyono sells a small version of the BlackCoat
called "Minimal". And they of...
Read more of All the pockets you'll need
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on August 29, 2006
Remember my Tune your run article? Apple & Nike cooperated to build a set from sport shoe and sensors to measure your calories etc. The good news is you can replace the "sport kit" with ...
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on August 26, 2006
"I dont snore, you do" is one of the most common words of our mankind, right? Time to try to stop this with another trial from the Techwear industry.
It's a wrist-worn device that you ...
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on August 25, 2006
warmX (introduced here) presents
a new product at an outdoor exhibition. Sounds great for all who love it warm and wonderful:
With our new, patented warmX-tights we present the world's first h...
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on August 22, 2006
Time2buy. The RedWire DLX jeans from Levis will make it into stores. They will be 50 bucks more expensive then told in spring when I first wrote about it.
Set to take off as a fashion trend in the ba...
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on August 19, 2006
You already have a passport with RFID? If not many will have soon. The problem: security experts think that the data can easy be stolen with a hidden reader. Clever people can make strange things with...
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on August 18, 2006
Everyone knows and loves car navigation systems. Now you can imagine how cool a personal navigation system would be. Most of all this one: the Georgia Institute of Technology presents SWAN - the Syste...
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on August 17, 2006
Not two years ago I had to make a decision many of you will know. Should I buy a notebook and an MDA (=PDA with mobile) or a subnotebook and a mobile. I bought the second set because of the possibilit...
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on August 15, 2006
This creation was "close2catch" and is a technological revolution. A shirt that measures what is available with sensors today. Because you'll have a lot of healthcare data at hand the po...
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on August 12, 2006
Even at the worlds biggest consumer electronics fair in September in Berlin we will see a Wearable Fashion show named "eFashion" (I guess it will be part of the Science show. However, till n...
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on August 10, 2006
The life of a soldier is hard, not only in times of war. I've been in the army to (if even for a short time only) and had the luck that I never joined a real mission. However, at night in winter t...
