Research notes on fashion, technology, design
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This blog is a repository for links/events/research to do with the integration of
fashion, design, and technology culminating in a fashion show/conference/contest etc. right?
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
iPod belt buckle:
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Solar Purse
Like refrigerators, purses can now light up when opened. Gone are the days of fumbling around huge purses.
A solar-powered handbag designed by a student from Brunel University promises to make finding keys and other items at the bottom of a bag easier.
The handbag, dubbed Sun Trap, uses a solar cell attached to the outside of the bag to trap energy from sunlight.
The energy is stored in an internal battery which lights up the lining.
The lining is made from an electroluminescent material similar to that found in mobile phones and is lit up by the bag's zip which acts as a switch.
The bag goes dark when the zip is closed or after 15 seconds if it is accidentally left open.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4268644.stm
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Saturday, September 17, 2005
Wireless E-paper from Fujitsu
Fujitsu has developed a new electronic paper technology that can hold vibrant color images without electricity. The thin, flexible paper is more vivid than an LCD, requires only small amounts of electricity to update, and could be commercialized as soon as 2007, Fujitsu says. Fujitsu claims the technology is the world’s first film-substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory.
http://www.deviceforge.com/news/NS9287835337.html
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
Robot Skin
University of Tokyo researchers have created a flexible sensor net to make robot skin which give machines the sense of touch.
The obvious first application has already been developed called Men's SOM.
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Bone Ring
Tattoos of your SO’s name and blood hanging around your neck in a vial are so yesterday. Instead a project by Tobbie Kerridge and Nikki Stott design researchers of the Royal Academy of Art in London is soliciting couples to start this trend in bio-jewelry.
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Friday, August 26, 2005
Finger print jewelry from Piaget
Pendants, watches with diamonds following the whorls of your fingerprint
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Chanel TV belt/purse
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Call for entries for the next Cybernetic Garment conference in
Australia next April:
Subject: Cybernetic garments conference call
The space between conference and associated events will centre
on the new creative and theoretical potentialities that have
emerged from the blurring of the boundaries between art,
fashion, textiles and other creative/design
disciplines. It will provide an international forum for the
presentation of new ideas, current research and an in-depth
exchange of ideas and experiences.
One particular focus of the conference will be the potential
and consequences of the uptake of 'new' technologies and
techniques (bio, nano, digital, other) in the creation of
'cybernetic garments', utilising re oriented notions of
'garment', 'technology' and 'cybernetic'. In this context, a
'garment' is anything worn close to the body, and so includes
sunglasses, jewellery, hair pieces and cosmetics. The
comparatively recent, but now ubiquitous digital devices -
mobile phones, cameras,identity/credit cards, make explicit the
cybernetic relation between humans and garments, since they are
'active' and of a 'new' technology. Proposals are invited for
papers, panels, presentations and displayable
artefacts/artworks that explore the impact of new technology
and techniques in the design of active 'cybernetic' garments.
Deadline: 30 September
Info:
Andrew Hutchison
a.hutchison@curtin.edu.au
http://www.thespacebetween.org.au
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