The Techwear Weblog

The age of technologically advanced products on the market rages on as the electronic cigarette gains popularity worldwide. Now even cigarettes, an addictive pleasure for ages, have become part of the…

While the vast majority of women enjoy shopping for clothes, they increasingly avoid clothes that have to be drycleaned, according to a study from the Chicago offices of the global market-research fir…

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 …

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 iden…

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 …

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 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…

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 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…