Accessories
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. ...
Sprint and BodyMedia team up
This week, Sprint, announced a partnership with BodyMedia, a company that develops wearable fitness technologies, which will expand the wireless carrier’s product portfolio to include embedded devices. BodyMedia develops body monitoring and ...
Wear your record album
Playbutton is a pin-on button that holds a single album. You can pin it on your clothes to display the cover art and listen to the album. Much like vinyl ...
3D printed footwear
Designer Marloes ten Bhömer is focusing on mechanical couture through a series of beautiful 3D printed footwear called Rapidprototypedshoe. They are “built using an additive manufacturing technology in which successive ...
Wallets help you manage your money
Researchers at MIT’s media lab are exploring ways in which technology can be embedded into our wallets to help us manage our spending habits. “The widespread adoption of credit and ...
Apple patents iPhone Glove concept
Apple has filed a lot of interesting patents in the wearable space lately. One of the patents is aimed toward warming the hands of iPhone users during cold winter days. The patent ...
A smart scarf helps people affected by speech dysarthria
Interactive media student from the University of Dundee in Scotland, Calum Pringle, has created a project that helps aid people affected by speech dysarthria called Subtle Subtitles. Inspired by his mother, who suffers ...
Craft Punk fur-studded Fendi guitars
One of my favorite designers, Moritz Waldemeyer, creates stage and electronic performance wear for a growing number of artists ranging from Bono to Rihanna to OK Go. One of his many ...
Even more light-up clothing
However long it’s been around in the wearable tech field, there seems to have been an explosion of light-up clothing in the news these days (read an earlier post about ...
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.