http://www.weartec.thevital.net Wearable technology, gadgets and smart clothing Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is just a quick note to let you know that the guys at Crunchgear have dug up a wearable technology application that is similar to the Air Guitar Shirt I wrote about yesterday. The wearable instrument is called Miburi and was released by Yahama. What's really interesting about the Miburi ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/air-guitar-shirt-only-a-copied-invention/ Australians love 3 things: beer, sports and parties (and I should know because I live in Australia :-) Australian research organisation CSIRO has now developed the next big thing for parties and air guitar contests (yes, these really do exist):an air guitar shirt. The air guitar shirt uses sensors embedded in ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/wearable-technology-makes-air-guitar-play-for-real/ Warning to all the wearable gadget fans, this one does not require batteries and does not seem "technical" at all at first glance. Caribongo designes clothes and more importantly prints and motives that are applied to the fabric using a special, photochromic ink. The photochromic ink makes the whole product stand out ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/i-need-sunshine-tshirt-looses-color-in-the-shade/ Cutecircuit, the makers of the Hug Shirt, have announced on their website that Time Magazine has nominated the shirt as one of the best inventions of 2006. As I wrote previously the Hug Shirt allows people to exchange the physical sensation of a hug over distance by means of Bluetooth ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/hug-shirt-nominated-for-best-invention-in-time-magazine/ If you have been reading my blog you will have seen the name Eleksen pop up a few times. Eleksen specialises in smart fabrics and creates wearable audio controls. A lot of the MP3 fashion that offers integrated audio controls, such as this one use Eleksen interfaces. Eleksen has now decided ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/eleksen-hosts-smart-fabrics-design-seminars/ The Age has published an article on how we could use our feet (and other parts of your body) to harvest energy and power wearable devices, such as cell phones, displays, laptops and MP3 players. An earlier idea to incorporate a mini piezo generator into footware was abandoned after the ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/shoe-that-recharges-your-cellphone-battery-canned-because-of-911/ "Casio Computer Co., Ltd. just announced the release of the GPR-100 -- a small, lightweight wrist-worn device that uses u-Nav GPS technology to display real-time data on distance, speed, and pace. This new model in the CASIO SPORT® series will be available in retail stores shortly." u-Nav specializes in the development ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/casio-releases-worlds-smallest-gps-watch/ Apple announced that the new iPod shuffle will be available in stores on Friday, November 3. The new iPod shuffle is about half the size of the original iPod shuffle and has been labeled "the most wearable iPod ever". The iPod shuffle has storage capacity of 1GB (up to 240 songs, ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/smallest-ipod-ever-hits-the-market/ This is just a quick note to let you know that MediaMatic will run a wearable workshop in Amsterdam from November 10th to November 12th. For 125 Euros you will use the Arduino board to create your own piece of wearable technology. http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/wearable-workshop-in-amsterdam/ Some modern cars no feature rain sensors, that automatically activate the windscreen wipers when the windscreen gets wet. Similar technology has new been used by Elise Co, to create the prototype of a rain coat equipped with wearable technology. Co's rain coat is equipped with water sensors that, when exposed ... http://www.weartec.thevital.net/wearable-technology/rain-coat-that-lights-up-in-the-rain/