Move: Precision in Movement

Move is a technology garment that guides you toward optimal performance and precision in movement in an ambient, precise, and beautiful way. From daily activities to sports activities to expressive movement, it provides a softer, poetic, and more personal approach to physical performance that helps you alleviate incorrect physical movement, which can lead to chronic pain or even long-term damage. The more precise you can move, the faster you improve your fitness and overall health.

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Pulse: Stay in your zone

Pulse is a wearable accessory and mobile phone experience that monitors your heart rate and helps keep you in your most optimal fitness zone. No constant calculation of your heart rate during your work out. No bulky hardware. Pulse simplifies your heart rate performance and helps keep you in your zone, beautifully and discretely.

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Modwells: Personal modules for wellness

Modwells, created through Artefact, delivers a consumer-focused healthcare experience integrated into your daily life. It improves your physical and emotional health, and enhances your quality of life. The system respects the unique health and wellbeing needs of each user. Modwells accommodates those needs through a customizable solution that blurs the line between traditional medical products and consumer products.

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Core77 Design awards winner »

Ping: A social networking garment

Ping explores wearable technology solutions that are connected to software and services. It consists of a garment that connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere. It allows you to stay connected to your friends and groups of friends simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear. Lift up a hood, tie a bow, zip, button, and simply move, bend and swing to ping your friends naturally and automatically. No phone, no laptop, no hardware. Simply go about your day, look good and stay connected.

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ISWC 2011 Best Execution Award »

Zip: Control Your Music

Zip explores the aesthetics and interaction of wearable technology solutions that have built-in music controls. There are many products on the market today ranging from snowboard jackets to hoodies that allow you to connect your music player and control it using buttons integrated into the textiles. However, most of the solutions simply take the music player’s hardware controls and replicate them on the sleeve or inside the lapel using eTextiles.

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Run: race, jog, train, and play tag

Run is a training and gaming system that allows casual runners to detect and run with other runners without letting geography get in the way. The system includes an intelligent shoe, a web site, a cell phone application, and an infrastructure that includes a series of experiences for multiple niche markets within the sports and gaming communities.

Mix: DJ through dance

Mix turns what teens love into a fun, community-based, and entertainment sport encouraging them to stay physically active. The experience allows them to become their own dj, start and/or join a band, and create custom music tracks through the dance moves that they love. It includes a portable wireless gesture-based mixing device that you wear as an accessory and a web-based community that teens can get involved with at any level and advance up to a full-blown performance.