Category Archive: Ecosystems

28 Jun

A connection while sleeping

A connection while sleeping

Student Alexander Reeder at the NYU ITP program has created Dream Jammies, which explores the connection that can be made through natural sleep patterns across distances. A …

 
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16 Jan

Jewelry as our home base

Jewelry as our home base

Mouna Andraos, in collaboration with Sonali Sridhar, has designed Address Necklace, which “is a handmade electronic jewelry piece. When you first acquire the pendant, you …

 
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07 Jan

Capturing moments of excitement

Capturing moments of excitement

(image source) Designer Diana Eng created this heartbeat hoodie that captures moments of excitement throughout your day. It’s equipped with a heart rate sensor and a camera …

 
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22 Dec

Wearable forest

Wearable forest

Ryoko Ueoka, Hiroki Kobayashi and Michitaka Hirose created this beautiful piece titled Wearable Forest from University of Tokyo and I can’t get enough of it! This gorgeously delicate …

 
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16 Dec

A garment that twitters baby’s kicks

A garment that twitters baby’s kicks

Corey Menscher, a student at New York University’s ITP program, created KickBee. The project is a wearable device that pregnant women wear as it senses …

 
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20 Nov

Dressing in technology

Dressing in technology

Jean-Baptiste Labrune, Dana Gordon, Michel De Meere, and Dirk Van Oosterbosch hosted a workshop called Designing Hybrid Wearables at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. The workshop aims to …

 
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18 Nov

Hand-recording your experiences

Hand-recording your experiences

Valeria Fuso has designed Jik, a glove that records your experiences by capturing video, images and sound in the context of where you are. Fuso is brilliantly …

 
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12 Nov

Visualizing the invisible

Visualizing the invisible

Agneilli Davide, Buzzini Dario, and Drori Tai at the now-closed Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, collaborated on exploratory projects that investigate the three-dimensionality of hertzian space. One …

 
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