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...
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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...
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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 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 February 22, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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by on October 09, 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...
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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...
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by on September 11, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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