Boffin inspired electronic clothes from our secret UK lair
Combining sportswear and electronics can open up new ways of making training more effective, safer and fun. Fashion design students at Shih Chien University, together with electronic engineers from neighbouring National Taiwan University, took on this creative challenge in a recent 10 day workshop. (more…)
Fashion design student Blair (許亞臻) has created an LED running top that measures the runners movement and synchronises the flashing of the lights to the arm swing. A laser cut outer layer creates a star like effect. (more…)
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…)
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…)