Sabine Seymour
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 wearables.
Sabine Seymour focuses on 'the next generation wearables' and the intertwining of aesthetics and function. She is described as being an innovator, visionary, trend setting, holistic in her approach, and a lateral thinker.
One of the next chances to meet her is in May in Washington:
Sabine Seymour is invited to speak at the Smart Fabrics 2007 conference on "Fashionable Technology – The Impact of Design on Innovations" Washington, USA, May 7 – 9, 2007
Her company: MOONDIAL | Fashionable Technology
Sabine is curating Our Cyborg Future: Me or Machine? as part of the Dott07 festival. “The exhibition looks at the shrinking divide between us and the technology we use. From prosthetic body parts, to smart textiles and wearable computing, a range of technologies is penetrating the different ‘skins’ we surround ourselves with.”
Sabine is currently writing her PhD dissertation dealing with creativity, innovation, and economics in smart clothing/wearables due to be finished in 2007. She received a Master of Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia University’s MBA program in New York and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts.