A suit that alters your world
Designer Maxence Parache has created Hyper(reality), which alters the perception of our environment using an augmented reality helment, an interactive glove and a Microsoft Kinect system. The experience allows you ...
Body monitoring for healthier living
Cnet’s Nafe Needdleman discusses an emerging trend around the collection of data streams about what we do, how we feel and how we move called the Quantified Self movement. In this Reporter ...
A way finding aid for the visually impaired
A group of students from Simon Fraser University have developed a concept to help improve the lifestyle of the visually impaired in a meaningful way through one of the most important ...
Adding fashion to wearable electronics
From Nokia’s fashion-focused L’Amour Collection that turned phones into hand-held jewelry done way back in ’05, I’ve enjoyed watching companies and designers use fashion to differentiate their products. If you ...
Turn signal glove for cyclers
Cycling is becoming more and more popular, especially during summer months in the Pacific Northwest and in cities that are designed for biking. With the activity, however, comes danger. Just ...
Footwear that harvests energy by walking
Alas, you can leave that cumbersome power cord at home. Imagine charging your mobile phone anywhere you are simply by walking. University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor ...
An explosion of wearable fitness devices
There seems to be an explosion of fitness-related wearable devices hitting the market that take advantage of smaller, cheaper on-body sensing technology. From watches to smart jewelry, these pervasive devices ...
The new aesthetic of second-skin sports textiles
There’s a growing trend in making high-performance textiles beautiful and more fashionable in the medical and sport sectors (see the related post on the aesthetics of personal medical devices) even ...
Forget about the killer app, we need a killer OS
There’s a lot of discussion around what the first wearable technology “killer app” will be, but first what we need at this early cusping time in the field is the ...
Electronic tattoos: soon to be a reality?
Temporary tattoos may soon be more than a futuristic idea. Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, Tufts University, the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, ...
