Books
Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine our Physical Environment
Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology
Material World 2: Innovative Materials for Architecture and Design
Hussein Chalayan
Folding as a Form: Generation Method in Architecture
Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design
Our Own Devices: The Past and Future in Body Technology
Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology
Wearable Electronics and Photonics
Switch Craft: Battery-powered Crafts to Make and Sew
Smart textiles and materials
Lumalive: light and textiles
Thermochromatic ink: color-changing
Nitinol: memory wire
d3o: intelligent shock-absorbing flexible plastic
Kameraflage: naked to eye but viewable through a digital display
Liquid Crystals: via AlphaMicron
Electroluminescent wire
Rechargeable batteries: ITP
Prototyping tools
LilyPad developers kit
LilyPad XBee: wireless communication module
LilyPad Programming Resources
Sparkfun
DigiKey: any sensor and component that you need
Batteries
Middlesex University: inspiring exploratory materials
Conductive thread
Conductive yarns
Solar: via Solarbotics
Arduino: open-source prototyping platform
Soft sensing: soft switches and sensors (ITP)
Soft circuits tutorial (pdf)
FabLab: rapid prototyping lab
LED resistor calculator
ITP tutorials: some nice Arduino tutorials
How to use a multimeter
Materials and fabrics
How to solder
Publications
A Brief History of Wearable Computing
Wearable Computing: Wikipedia
Portable Effects: A Survey of Nomadic Design Practice
Electronic Textiles: Wearable Computers, Reactive Fashion, and Soft Computation (pdf)