Protecting babies from SIDS
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a common fear among parents (especially new parents). Cautious parents typically sneak into their child’s room to check on their breathing pattern’s while sleeping ...
A new fitness tracking device
Move over Fitbit and Jawbone Up, Amiigo is a new kid on the block (in addition to the newly anticipated Misfit Shine) that is promising to help improve your health by ...
10-year predictions coming true?
Ten years ago, Wired Magazine predicted that we’d be “living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us.” Turns out, ...
IBM predicts our technology future
This year IBM presents The 5 in 5 in five sensory categories, that includes 5 scientists, 5 stories, and 5 predictions about the world in 5 years and how technology ...
Is iWatch in Apple’s future?
Smartwatches have been squeezing their way into the wearable consumer electronics market like Pebble, i’m watch, Sony Smartwatch, inPulse and WIMM (to name a few). And much speculation has been around for ...
Skinsucka: a design provocation
Studio XO is a fashion and technology company that creates and engineers interactive wearable experiences at the crossroads of physical-digital media. They have created some really provocative work for clients ...
Goggles Measure Your Radness
Smith isn’t the only company Recon is teaming up with this season. In fact, the HUD innovator has also packed its tech into goggles from the likes of Briko, Scott, ...
Engadget: The Wearable Tech Issue
Engadget’s magazine, Distro, arrives with a look at wearable computing and the history behind Google Glass in their newly published Issue 70. It includes a good overview of the history ...
An elegant, wireless activity tracker
New wearable tech kid-on-the-block, Misfits Wearables, has just launched a very promising new wearable device called Misfit Shine and they have already raised over $500K on funding site indiegogo. The ...
Now available: Fashionable tech report
Dr. Sabine Seymour of Moondial has released another fashionable technology report which focuses on the intersection between design, fashion, science and technology. The report is published twice a year. It will ...
Light up, warm up textile for cyclists
Well, if you’re going to make light-up garments, this is one way to do it. Hamburg company, Realflex, has created a product that not only lights up for safety, but ...
Will a second chance work for UP?
The Jawbone UP was a hugely anticipated new wearable technology product for life tracking that was announced in 2011 at TED and brought to the market shortly after. Unfortunately, due ...
GPS shoes inspired by Wizard of Oz
Dominic Wilcox teamed up with interactive arts and technology expert Becky Stewart and Northamptonshire shoe maker Stamp Shoes to create these GPS shoes inspired by the Wizard of Oz. In order ...
In Remebrance Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012
Very sad news for the design community recently with the passing of one of IDEO’s cofounders Bill Moggridge. He has been a tremendous influence to designers world wide and has ...
An interview with Steve Mann
New York Time’s Bits recently conducted an interview with Steve Mann, one of the great pioneers in wearable tech, who talked about “mediated reality” and where he thinks wearable tech is heading. “Steve Mann ...
