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iPod belt buckle:

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Solar PurseLike 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

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Wireless E-paper from FujitsuFujitsu 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

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Robot SkinUniversity 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 RingTattoos 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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Finger print jewelry from PiagetPendants, watches with diamonds following the whorls of your fingerprint

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Chanel TV belt/purse

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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

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Wearable Motherboard and Smart Shirt from GA Tech

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at last week's RxGallery's salon, sha xin wei from georgia tech talked about wearables, gestures, ubicomp vs. tangible computing, etc. one of the founders of electric plaid company was there too. they showed a sound generating 'theremin-like' pillow interacting with other sensors in another woman's sleeve to generate audio and video based on their movements and the interference with the

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at siggraph this week see the cyber fashion show: http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/cfp/studio/fashion.html one guy who promises to talk at a future dorkbot has this cool sounding pneumatic stilts that will be in the fashion show.

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Smart-Its Tiny sensors for ubicomp/augmented reality/wearables projects. One version uses PIC and RF the other users Atmel's micro and Bluetooth. The sensors are designed to be interchanged with either micros. The add-on sensors are temperature, 8 line character display, piezo sound, RS232, IrDA, I/O Test Board.

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Canesta make this keyboard that uses lasers to project a keyboard onto almost any surface -supposedly under normal lighting conditions. Since there is no haptic feedback that you get from mechanical keyboards, they do provide audio feedback which actually makes people able to type faster.

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Electric Jacket A cool 80,000 volt jacket that defends against unwanted touching. Video

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more smart fabrics: Infineon has a smart carpet that is really a self-organizing network of chips where each 'tile' is a sensor/processor networked via conductive threads.

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more info on luminex: pricing, contact info, etc:

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invisibility cloak and flexible, very thin, electroluminescent panels

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from jenny: world's first programmable, color change texture: electric plaid

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Flexible fabric sensors elektex can sense on 3 axes (x,y,z) within a 1mm thick flexible fabric that can send back positioning (x,y), pressure (z) data. Soft Phone Squeezable/bendable phone. Stroking action for scrolling/pressing for selecting. Encloses a wrist phone. The fabric can be interchangeable while the wrist phone remains the same. Soft Remote Can receive and transmit on

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nothing fashionable about the latest innovative use of electro textiles and nanotech in clothing by the military. but the utility and technical improvements should serve as the foundation for more fashionable civilian wear later on.

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wristomo cell phone watch -can do email syncing with MS Outlook

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Audio Clothes

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light attack on a recent trip to london i saw these being sold at cyberdog. some of them are programmable. you can add your own message and the equalizer one was pretty cool as they animate in time to the beats just as a real equalizer would. here are the guts of the system. -k0re

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a wearable ipod: http://www.apple.com/ipod/burton/ and ideo's techno jewelry from xeni: http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=50165

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flexible wireless fiber optic monitor from france telecom:

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from bev/21f: http://www.kittytech.com/about-kitty.html Dr. Carsten Mehring, a mechanical engineer at the University of California—Irvine, has come up with an alternative input solution for portable (or wearable) computing systems that may be a step in the right direction. Dr. Merhing calls his invention the Keyboard Independent Touch Typing device (KITTY). The finger-mounted system allows

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if one were to ever do smart environments the yotel people would be some to talk to! they are llike the japanese capsule hotels designed by the same designer british airways hired.

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[housing/structure] from shaun: http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/med_icopod.html

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http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021108072246.htm The researchers are designing e-textiles -- cloth interwoven with electronic components -- for use as personal "wearable computers" and as large sensing and communications fabrics.

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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55528,00.html infrared images on clothing

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6202 INFINEON, WHICH which has a large presence at the "Electronica" electronics fair which opened in Munich today, said it is demonstrating chips and sensors woven into "smart textiles", with connecting wires integrated into the weave and with miniscule power consumption.

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not quite what one could call 'fashion' but early prototype of functionality/application?

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programmable matter for interactive walls and tables

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This arm-band monitors movement, heat flow, skin temperature, ambient temperature and has GSRs. the thing that's different about this is it has 2-way communication so designers can do something with the data... here's a complete list of what it tracks: http://www.bodymedia.com/products/monitor.jsp

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doors of perception conference in amsterdam this week! wish i were there: http://www.doorsofperception.com/news/details/89 there is a fashion museum in antwerp as well: http://www.doorsofperception.com/books/details/318

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maribeth and i talked about this a couple yrs ago: bluetooth luggage to help track your bags...and now, here it is IRL! http://www.samsonite.com/hardlite/flash/site.html

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http://www.traser-uk.com/ a very cool watch that will be luminescent for about 10 yrs because it uses tritium, a radioactive substance! don't go breaking it on your wrists now :-) i could be wrong but it is curious because i dont think companies are allowed to make tritium and all of it comes from dismantled nuclear weapons...

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a few thoughts on categories for our show: i'd like to propose that each category could include public spaces, clothing, accessories, electronics, but would be divided into: --entertainment [set design; costumes] --real application [emergency worker clothing; space; public use] --distant futures [prototype what could be] --others?

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flexible organic LEDs FOLEDs

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Bubble Lounge Fashion show. November 20th, 2002. i just met with a friend last night and i think i'll do some really small points of light under the skirts instead of head pieces.

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luminex

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