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...

Often enough we learn from army technology - why not when it comes to personal safety and personal information. Often enough people aks me whats with security and wearable etchnology? Maybe this new...

I'm a bit late with this entry but I saved the site in my browser because it's that damned cool.. A display so thin that you can even wear it. The technology is electroluminescent. "In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Seldom enough I write about interfaces for wearable computing because there are not so many fresh ideas yet. However, this collection of "13 Computer keyboards you've never seen before"...

The Register reports about a european police conference in Berlin, Germany. One of the real challenges on the street is to make sure that criminals can not use the policemen's gun. The conference...

One of the most advanced wearable projects has stopped now, the land warrior. Time seems not to be right for the whole bunch of technologies planned. But a few became "part of the process"....

"We have many exciting opportunities to use these proprietary coatings to stop infection before it causes disease and death," says Tom Roberg Sounds like a huge new market that connects the...

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,...

Wearable displays were a real hype some years ago. But this product category had kind of a long sleep. I always loved that idea. Computing power within a tiny box and a huge (virtual) screen. What the...

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 new use for RFID tags within a museum was honored for it's innovative idea - and the idea is simple enough: The Tech Museum of Innovation wanted to personalize the museum experience. To do so...

Circumferential visibility is exact what a new wearable technology offers. Canoe Money writes "from wearable video glasses to a wearable helmet". Yes, the helmet is huge and not what we mean...