Articles Tagged “clothes”

  • Modular Extensible Reconfigurable Dress

    Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed in such a way as to accommodate a solar cell, a RGB [...]

  • Inovative and Original Fiber Optic Fabric

    Based on inovative LUMNIEX, LumiGram developed the technology  that allows to wave plastic optical fibers alongside synthetic fibers, forming a luminous fabric. This innovation can be used in many fields: fashion and clothing (bags, accessories, clothes), decoration (pillows, tablecloths, curtains, …), furnitures, etc… Unlike standard optical fibers, the fiber optic fabric emits light along the [...]

  • Impressive Line of LED Embeded Hats

    Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer. Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at [...]

  • iBand – a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange

    The iBand project aims to leverage the simple gesture of the handshake, coupled with the qualities of jewelry to act as tangible keepsakes and reminders of relationships, to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing. The prototype is a wearable bracelet, adjustable in design for different kinds of users (male, [...]

  • Fashion LED Caplet

    Gracie Kim, who recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, creates the capelet that is powered by a 3V coin cell battery and 1″ x 3″ circuit board located on the back of the piece. This thesis explores current aesthetics of wearable technology. A precept of design is that form follows function. The more emphasis [...]