Accessories
Interactive ring that helps you game
Ringbow founders Saar Shai and Efrat Barit, have created a gaming accessory designed to be used with touch-based interfaces. They’re currently raising money on Kickstarter and are getting closer to ...
Adding haptic feedback to gesture interfaces
One of the problems with using physical gestures with UI navigation or gaming (think Kinect) is the lack of any sort of haptic feedback. You basically wave your hand around ...
3D Printed Wearable Planters
I am loving these tiny wearable planters that are made from raw 3D prints. 3D printing is on the verge of revolutionizing the way that products are produced and sold ...
Glasses provide sound and scent
Researchers from Keio University in Tokyo have created glasses designed to not only augment the wearer’s sight, but also sound AND smell. The glasses are aimed to enhance our social ...
Electronic Eyeglasses Change Prescription On Command
There’s a new breed of spectacles that modify your sight for every occasion. Developed by a company called PixelOptics, emPower electronic focusing eyewear does exactly what it sounds like: change ...
The new aesthetic of wearable medical devices
There’s an emerging trend focused on a new aesthetic of wearable medical devices that are beautiful, fashionable, functional, and ultimately celebrate an ailment rather than hide it. Afterall, if you ...
Jawbone wristband tracks health to fight obesity
Jawbone announced a project they’ve been quietly working on for years on stage at TED Global. It’s a wearable band called Up, which is infused with sensors and a connected ...
Gloves that capture your secrets
Designer and maker, Meg Grant, has been exploring wearable technology and eTextiles. Her latest work Secret Keeper Gloves, extends human behavior and tendencies in a poetic, playful way through simple ...
Wireless display in your contacts
Technology from STMicroelectronics for a Swiss medical startup points the way to integrating a display in a contact lens. The lens includes a wireless MEMS sensor that acts as a ...
Bringing beauty to diabetes
I love it when simple ideas can have such a big impact. Designer and creator, Jessica Floeh, is investigating the union of fashion and technology at Parsons’ School of Art ...
Light-embellished cufflinks
Adafruit creates wearable electronics that are “subtle and fun to wear”. Their premiere product, iCuffLinks, is a rather beautiful set of geekwear cufflinks that mimic the breathing light patterns of ...
Analog interactions: braking objects to make new ones
Mey and Boaz Kahn of Studio Kahn love the gesture of braking objects to create new meaning and reveal new functions with their most recent sculptural objects titled Fragile. Made ...
On-demand fabricated swimwear
Here’s another product being developed using 3d printing techniques. Unlike Continuum Fashion’s N12 that prints custom made bikinis made of 3d print-able nylon beads, this bikini is laser cut from ...
Lulin Ding dreams up digital makeup
Industrial designer Lulin Ding is investigating digital makeup with a recent project that turns your eyeshadow into a glowing, illuminated splash of color. “I was interested in the way women ...
An incredible wearable technology resource list
Digital media designer-artist, theorist and curator Valérie Lamontagne has an incredible wearable technology resources page that lists the who’s who and who’s upcoming in the wearable technology and eTextile field. ...
About electricfoxy
Electricfoxy investigates on-body experiences that are enhanced by technology resulting in new wearable experiences that become a core part of our expression, our identity, and our individuality.
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