Heart rate monitoring sports bra’s aren’t something new, but this one from Master student Victoria Sowerby, has a nice twist, it alters the pace of your music according to you beats per minute. (more…)
Category: Garments
A nice interview with artistic milliner Monique Lee, as part of the “Birmingham Made Me” exhibition. The interview includes a description of her recent collaborative work with Lab-Alpha7’s own Paul Gough, exploring the marriage of hats and electronics. (more…)
Kickstarter funded Digitsole showed off their smart insoles at CES 2015. Via your smartphone you can set the temperature for comfortable feet even on cold winter days. (more…)
UK based Wearable Technologies Ltd, under their brand Visijax, have two cool LED jackets for the urban cyclist that wants to be seen. (more…)
Fashion design master students Iris (黎彥伶) and Yuan (陳昱安) and postgraduate engineer Ted (沈續濤): designed, made and tested their fragrant electronic gloves for the elderly. The gloves gently encourage elderly, often wheel-bound, patients to remain active through the use of monitored hand exercises with feedback via coloured LED’s. In addition, the gloves provide warmth and, triggered by the heat, a pleasant fragrance. (more…)
Anouk Wippert has updated her original dress that defended the wearer from objects and persons invading their personal space. Using 3D printing and the extra processing power of the Intel Edison platform, the upgrade has given a more bio aware garment with the striking aesthetics of an intricate exoskeleton. (more…)
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3D printing and dressing making are difficult disciplines to successfully bring together. However, the team at nervous systems have created a directly 3D printed dress which drapes naturally over the body and moves like a fabric when the wearer walks. (more…)
Tommy Hilfiger, together with solar experts Pvilion, have created a line of solar charging jackets; banishing flat phones and laptops. The solar cells are integrated into panels which can be attached to the jacket. (more…)
Finding things in handbags can be difficult in the dark. Using LED’s integrated into the Ricky bag, Ralph Lauren hopes to shed some light and help solve the problem. The bag also comes with a battery charger; the combined features aiming to make life easier for the owner. (more…)
I guess it had to happen, the pattern changing bra has arrived, delivered by Japanese manufacturer Triumph. (more…)