Software
An urban gaming accessory for your iPhone/iPod
Canadian Film’s Interactive Arts and Entertainment Program designers Kathleen Climie, Rose Bianchini and David McCallum have created Neighbourhoodie, which merges physical street games with online games. “Be your own video ...
Ping: a social networking garment
Alas! I recently completed a project that I’ve been working on called Ping. It’s a garment that connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere. It allows you to ...
A dress that doubles as an eco-warning system
Diffus founders Hanne-Louise Johannesen and Michel Guglielmi have designed and created this gorgeous dress that doubles as an eco-warning system. In collaboration with the design company and fashion designer Tine ...
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 pair of pajamas are embedded ...
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 select a place that you ...
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 that snaps a photo ...
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 and illuminating dress interacts bio-acoustically with ...
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 the baby’s kicks, which then ...
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 focus on merging communication technology ...
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 exploring natural gestures as the ...
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 of their projects called Fashion ...
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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