Tagged: Wearables

Garments that metamorphose as you drink

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As you drink, and get more drunk, your self esteem and courage expands….what if your clothes started to expand too, physically reflecting your drunken state? (more…)

Wearable epilepsy monitoring

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A wearable garment, the WEMU, consisting of a top and cap is able to monitor epileptic seizures, enabling this, for the first time, to be done outside a clinical environment. (more…)

Heavy breathing quantified using Ralph Lauren’s tech shirt

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Although there have been a spate of shirts that integrate heart-rate, respiration and other sensors into sports tops, it is interesting that a non dedicated sports brand, Ralph Lauren, has entered this market. (more…)

Be seen…LED motorcyle jacket

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The impulse motorcycle jacket is not the first jacket to use LED’s to improve the safety of two wheel riders, but it is the first to tightly link to the bike’s brake and indicator lights (more…)

Sensoria raises series A investment

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Sensoria, a start-up producing sensing garments, has just agreed first round funding to enable further development and promotion of their health and well-being products. Specifically Sensoria have sports bras, t-shirt and socks that track biometric data via their textile sensors embedded within the fabric. (more…)

The future of wearable technologies

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Danielle Wilde works on smart textiles at RMIT university in Melbourne, in a short videos she expresses a number of thoughts on where things are heading. Suzanne Lee’s bioculture research and Helen Storey’s exquisite glass dress both get a mention. (more…)