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The latest industry news, case studies and interviews on trends, products, and events in fashion-tech, smart textiles, pervasive healthcare, and wearable technologies.
Open Source + Craft Conference Deadlines
Two exciting calls for upcoming conference events on craft, fashion and technology! Open Source Hardware Association in partnership with Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre are organizing the Open Hardware Summit 2012 to take place at Eyebeam in New York City September 27, 2012. Submission for talks, posters, and demos on the topics of: Digital fabrication; Soft ...
The Car Liberation Front
Nothing is more démodé than the car. Automobiles are ruining our economies with rampant gas-guzzling, our environment with excess pollution, and the safety of our streets and cities with expanding car lanes and speed. In Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which takes place in the upper-class setting of Indianapolis, the wealthy and ambitious ...
Digital Textile Fashion Trend
Digital textile printing has taken fashion by a storm. The spring runways were pulsating with custom-designed Technicolor and graphic photographs, and designs and printed specifically for the cut of a garment. I see this trend as growing in a near future where print and textile patterns will be designed in tandem, both economizing material and ...
FashionWare CES 2012 Roundup
An interview by the wearables start-up research group SF FASHION+TECH with Kristin Neidlinger from SENSOREE about the recent FashionWare Show at CES 2012 in which she participated, outlines the emergent trends in wearables from functionality to aesthetics. Highlighted are Alasdair Leighton’s “Freescape Cycle Jacket”, winner of a Sony Ericsson competition run through the LiveView Design Project ...
Anouk Wipprecht Interview
I just published an interview with the fantastic Dutch-based fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht on the Fashioning Technology Blog. Anouk is a leading example of what a background in fashion design combined with technology know-how can create. Above from her tremendous technical skills is her ability to craft a unique sartorial style for herself. Part futuristic, ...
FLORA by Adafruit industries
Adafruit industries is adding some competition in the field of wearable technologies hardware. For a while now, e-textiles experimentation has become synonymous with Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino, which came out in 2007, but FLORA is soon to add some much-needed diversity. Personally, I can’t wait to get my hands on FLORA! More options can only result ...
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