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One of the big questions for wearable computing is how to market products. This needs innovation as much as the ability to understand the market and it's real needs. Thats the reason I post this...

Fibre2fashion published a huge report about fibres in the 21st century written by Prof. T.K.Sinha, Yogita Agrawal, Rupa Mohanta and Rupali Kapoor. The whole thing is really comprehensive. Here is the...

The Emotional Wardrobe is a London, UK, based project for research about what I call the "Social Interface". They differ between three dimensions of the topic: The three themes we have...

People to discover: Sabine Seymour. She's from Austria but teaches "Fashionable Technology" in New York. She is the one behind the Nike Running project and other brand projects with...

Such a pity to say that I found another text of great value on another fake weblog. However, the copy is worth to post it here as it describes wearable electronics in a great way. The real source...

Part II - VDI/VDE-IT Innovation + Technik GmbH - what is it? The VDI/VDE-IT is located in the middle of the power centers that drive innovation. The company studies research on many places, consults...

Seldom enough I'm at Gizmode the last year - however this entry inspired me: It creates a body area network (BAN) that lets you communicate with other peripherals by touching them. So for example,...

The mobile will be replaced by wearable computers - that's the prediction of Professor Nigel Linge, University of Salford. He says "the future of telecommunications is "wearable...

Part I - What drives the world? Convergence is probably the word of the century. Convergence of technologies, convergence of media etc. But what's about the structures behind these trends? What...

An outstanding designer is someone who is able to see and know what the future is about. And so is wearable art - a look into what will happen the next years. It's just different to Wired and the...

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...

Just a reminder that the impressive International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux starts tomorrow and is worth a deeper look at. Even if wednesday starts a bit slow the topics are: #...

While others try to start into the era of ubiquitous computing - Japan tries harder. The country wants to become the lead in the Ubiquitous Economy. And their chances are quite good because they have...

UK is very active in the wearable electronics field while Germany and Swiss are more into research and B2B applications. I see a growing number of UK readers at my weblog too. Here is a short but...

I found something pretty cool at gizmag. Who would have thought that good old Dick Tracy (75 years now) was such a future men?! I mean the comic was ok, not my favorite and the soundtrack from Madonna...

SciFi Author Vernor Vinge gave a keynote about ubiquitous computing and his view into the future. Remarkable. Localization: you dont need complex GPS or other technologies if you have smart RFID's...

Fred Barbash from the The Washington Post wrote a great article about how gadgets changed our life. His wonderful example is a car ride. Even the listing of gadgets used in the car is immense. ... I...

The BMBF is the education and research ministry of Germany. And they decided to spend 15 Mill. € for projects in Wearable Computing and Techwear. The ministry already received over 50 project ideas...

Part IV - Wearable Computing today Read Part I (Something has changed) here, Part II (Look into a tomorrows industry) here and Part III (Markets you should look at) here Back to the branch...

Part III - Markets you should look at Read Part I (Something has changed) here and Part II (Look into a tomorrows industry) here The B2C market is easy to describe: gadgets like your mobile or the...