Studio 5050 provides a collection of modules

Posted by on Apr 7, 2010 in DIY & Hacking | One Comment

Designer and Founder of STUDIO 5050, Despina Papadopoulos, and her team have developed a set of modules for sound input and output, LEDs, and temperature sensing and display along with a flexible, removable ...

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Embedding technology into textile patterns

Posted by on Apr 5, 2010 in DIY & Hacking | No Comments

The DIY hacker-crafters at Aniomagic in Boulder Colorado have transformed an award-winning dress by textile designer Lynne Bruning called Bright Patches into an interactive music player. The project seamlessly integrates iPod ...

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Connecting the body with its surroundings

Posted by on Apr 4, 2010 in Conceptual, Fashion | One Comment

University of Applied Sciences (Berlin) fashion design student Mareike Michel has designed an interactive dress that translates the body’s movement into light connecting the response with environmental surroundings. The gorgeous ...

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Personal, mobile, kinetic power generation

Posted by on Apr 2, 2010 in Conceptual, Power | One Comment

Designer Mary Huang in collaboration with Jennifer Kay has created this beautiful, yet somewhat impractical wearable technology piece that explores ideas of personal, mobile power generation and kinetics titled Dandelion. I can’t ...

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