Filed in archive Enterprises , Market , Science , Technology by on August 2, 2007

Like said before - Healthcare is one of the big things in wearable and the future of IT. Personal computing and personal healthcare grow together like never before. IBM starts a project together with ...

Fibres of the 21st century

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by on April 9, 2007

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

Filed in archive About , Market , Science , Technology by on March 30, 2007

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 iden...

Wearable Examples @ CNN

Filed in archive Market by on March 3, 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 ...

Exoskeleton gets VC

Filed in archive Market by on February 23, 2007

Talked about the crazy cool exoskeleton from Cyberdyn a while ago now they get "big pockets" ;-) Daiwa House Industry Co said Thursday it has contributed 1 billion yen (about 8,316,008 US d...

The county of action sports brands

Filed in archive Market by on February 20, 2007

The Orange County Register gives us a current view of the market of wearable electronics that has some great insights: In Orange County, no fewer than nine action sports brands are selling or working...

Convergence and Hi-Tech; an interview with Mr. Strese, VDI/VDE, part I

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Science , Technology by on November 18, 2006

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 a...

The State of Techwear

Filed in archive Market by on October 20, 2006

The Sentinel Online writes a kind-of-review about the Techwear market. It's not complete but faces some interesting details. Let's start here: Intelligent textiles, variously known as smart f...

The State of the Art

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products by 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...

Japan as Ubiquitous Economy

Filed in archive About , Market by on October 10, 2006

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 ...

House of the future

Filed in archive Market by on September 19, 2006

Eleksen is featured with the The G-Tech wireless fabric keyboard at the House of the Future. The keyboard is on display as the ultimate portable accessory for smartphone users. Roll it up, put it in y...

The mobile internet

Filed in archive Market by on September 12, 2006

The web becomes mobile - no question. Beside W-LAN there are many other technologies. With more and easier ways to connect always to the net the web becomes interesting for more target groups. There ...

Gadgets, gadgets, wearable

Filed in archive Market , Products , Technology by 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...

The gadget industry

Filed in archive Market by on August 28, 2006

Short, but useful: ZDNet writes about success factors in the gadget business based on a new book. George Bailey and Hagen Wenzek recently wrote the book "Irresistible! Markets, Models and Meta-Va...

Korea wants to become smart

Filed in archive Market by on August 28, 2006

Korea see's the future of their textile industry in smart textiles. They set up a five year R&D program for smart textiles with the same founding Germany did this year ($15.5 million). "A...

Asia rules - today Korea

Filed in archive Market by on August 21, 2006

Ok - it's not a complete view over Asia and Korea but short and insightful. Not a week ago I blogged elsewhere about the fact that China Mobile is the biggest mobile company in the world (Vodafone...

Electric textile @ IFA 2006

Filed in archive Cool , Enterprises , Events , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by 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...

Government awaken

Filed in archive About , Market , Science by on July 19, 2006

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 ...

A look into the market - with John Collins, Eleksen (IV)

Filed in archive About , Enterprises , Market by on July 15, 2006

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 descripti...

A look into the market - with John Collins, Eleksen (III)

Filed in archive About , Enterprises , Market by on July 13, 2006

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 i...

A look into the market - with John Collins, Eleksen (II)

Filed in archive About , Enterprises , Market by on July 11, 2006

part II - Look into a tomorrows industry Read Part I here And that's where the industry is right now. Many companies are already busy with wearable applications. The public view may be that Wear...

A look into the market - with John Collins, Eleksen

Filed in archive About , Enterprises , Market by on July 9, 2006

Something new 4u: Today I had my first interview - yep - and timing and person are just right I think. Read what john Collins from Eleksen has to say about the future of wearable computing and the com...

Nano textiles

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Technology by on June 19, 2006

Nanotechnology still sounds pretty hip and "future". But companies like Nano Tex prove that it's already around us. MSNBC.com gives a short overview and talk about Sensatex too. Now, hi...

Motivation

Filed in archive Market 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 ...

Tune your run - Apple & Nike

Filed in archive About , Cool , Enterprises , Market , Products , Technology by on May 27, 2006

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 ...

Fitness Phone

Filed in archive Cool , Market , Products , Technology by on May 24, 2006

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 th...