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...
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by on March 27, 2007
The Fashion in Motion show as part of the CTIA is always a great show but from year to year it becomes more famouse and wellknown. This year we find big names like Elle, La Perla, Zegna but of...
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by on March 27, 2007
What a great idea - part of the Hannover Messe is TecToYou (speak: Tec2u ;-), an initiative for teens. Many companies and universities organized special events over the whole week for young people....
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by on March 27, 2007
Just a last note form the CeBIT 2007. I made a picture at the stand of MRC, the Mobile Research Center, Bremen, Germany. This was btw my first intense use of a wearable system. The job was to answer...
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by on March 26, 2007
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...
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by on March 26, 2007
The famous Fraunhofer institut looks for students to support their wearable unit in Berlin, Germany. Beside the fact that Berlin is a dynamic and fun place to live the Fraunhofer institut - well-known...
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by on March 25, 2007
Ad agencies love new ideas and technologies because cool new things always create huge attention for brands and products.. This way it was only a question of time till I found this: MB2, also known as...
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This picture of a tactical computer is somewhat old but shows you what we talk about. The difference to the new TVC-2.0 TL is just that you have the power of a workstation within a wearable system...
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I'm sure you know the movie Minority Report and you'll remember the interface Tom Cruise uses to navigate in all the information he needs to build a story from the mind pictures. The...
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by on March 17, 2007
like every year I checked the term "Wearable" at the exhibitor list at CeBIT 2007. Conclusio: it has not really grown. I found only two companies (beside the fact that I know there are more...
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by on March 16, 2007
Energy is one of the main boundaries for wearable computing. The news just sounds to amazing to be true: battery power that is woven into textiles. In other words - I dream about cable-less energy for...
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by on March 11, 2007
Pretty pretty cool stuff for your apartment. A textile light dimmer that allows very different and "warm" designs. It's Wearable Electronics in the meaning that your apartment starts to...
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by on March 10, 2007
You probably not know the wonderful German town Bremen? It's just one of the oldest Sea-side cities. However, because it has the lead in the wearIT@work project (a brand that should definitive be...
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by on March 08, 2007
Another good reason to come to the wonderful Munich in July, the most beautiful region in Germany: The 1st WT congress "Where fashion meets technology" will be held parallel with the sports...
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by on March 07, 2007
.... on Applied Wearable Computing will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 12-13, 2007. And the really cool stuff happens on day 2 and it's all about interfaces: -Evaluating Wearable User...
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by on March 07, 2007
I wonder why I have'nt noticed these shoes before.. However, Gizmag presents what they call the Cinderella Shoe that is in fact an electric weapon. The picture left shows how it works. If you...
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by on March 04, 2007
Techwear is of course part of the CeBIT this year. Companies and products have their own area as part of the future parc. I even found a press release in the english section, but it was in German......
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by on March 03, 2007
Wearable was a topic at CNN and beside many known things we find a lot of new and interesting projects listed there. Wearable computing also has a natural home in the world of gaming. Nintendo's...
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by on March 02, 2007
How Japanese see the future - the "now future in front of us" to be proper. Watch this video short before you leave your office today and I wish you a great start into the weekend. Beside...
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by on March 01, 2007
The really first contact with wearable computing for me was in Zurich, Switzerland when the Expert from the ETHZ presented his idea for a PHA - the Personal Health Assistant. Looks like we are a bit...
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