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Bracelet protects civil rights activists
“Fighting for human rights is a noble undertaking, but it’s also extremely dangerous in places where that fight isn’t about simply arguing over abstractions. Aware of the very real possibility ...
Preventing the Invasion of Privacy
There’s a lot of discussion around how wearable technology impacts our notion of privacy. From our body metrics to data about who we are, where we’ve been and who we ...
Experimenting with visual perception
Wearable technology isn’t just about health & fitness, which is all the rage right now. German artist lorenz potthast offers an experimental approach to vision that challenges our visual perception. His Decelerator ...
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 ...
Controlling light with hand gestures
Blogger Niquita has developed this fascinating prototype in response to some research that was done around hand gestures. The prototype includes two rings that you wear on your thumb and ...
Glasses make sounds visible
With the announcement of Google Glass recently, there’s been a growing drumbeat around heads-up displays. The latest focuses on people suffering from hearing loss. The Himri Glasses, created by Daniele ...
A fashionable, wearable camera
Artefact has created a fashionable, wearable concept camera and display that encourages users to snap, share, and wear their photos in an instant called Meme. According to an article published by Fast Company about ...
Examining the culture of militarization
Carrie Mae Rose’s work is aimed to evoke emotion. Her work includes sculptural mandalas made of confiscated scissors and razors and a proposed necklace constructed out of violet wands (a ...
An emotional sensing necklace
Philips Design is always exploring what our futures might look like through their dedicated “far-future” probes research that tracks trends and developments, which may evolve into mainstream issues that have ...
Catalytic clothing purifies the air
Catalytic Clothing, a collaboration between designer/artist Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan in partnership with University of Sheffield and University for the Arts London, explores how textiles and nanotechnology can ...
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 ...
Sensoree explores therapeutic bio media and body architecture
Sensoree is an art and technology design lab focused on body architecture and therapeutic bio.media created by experience designer Kristin Neidlinger and team. Through her work, she explores nervous systems that ...
Rights Through Making explores Wear Culture
Students at Rights Through Making in partnership with Eindoven University of Technology’s ID department are exploring on-body interactions and wear culture that promotes community and celebrates scientific advancement and its ...
Bracelet helps patients rehabilitate
Health and body monitoring is a hot topic these days, which is what designer Petr Fiala is exploring with his Rehabilitation Bracelet. The bracelet monitors patient health and keeps doctors ...
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 ...
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.
Electricfoxy is sponsored by:
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