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      Aerochromics: Pollution Monitoring Garments Aim to Become A Sixth Skin

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      ‎BODYSONG‬./Glitchaus GLITCHJK Jacquard Bomber Jacket

      February 27, 2016

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      3D Print and the Jewellery Industry: An Overview

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      Wearables in Contemporary Ballet

      November 18, 2014

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      Fibers Software Transforms Your Fuelband Data into Art

      August 19, 2014

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      Adidas Reissues Micropacer OG

      August 14, 2014

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      Fashionable therapy brightens winter SADness

      July 30, 2015

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      Lightwear: An Exploration in Wearable Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder

      February 4, 2015

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      Vigour — A Gorgeous Wearable For Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy

      December 18, 2014

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      Space: What to wear?

      June 7, 2014

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      E-textile Pillow for Communication Between Dementia Patients and Family

      November 5, 2013

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      Moff: Wearable Smart Toy For Kids

      August 21, 2014

      Wearables UX

      Temporary NFC Tattoo

      July 29, 2014

      Wearables UX

      Wearable Tech Guide to SXSW

      March 7, 2014

      Wearables UX

      PixMob’s LED beanies light up the SuperBowl by turning the crowd into human pixels

      February 3, 2014

      Wearables UX

      Cadbury Joy Jackets

      January 16, 2014

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      Interview with Davide Vigano of Heapsylon

      April 30, 2014

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      Make It Wearable Video Series by Creators Project

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      Interview with Sparkfun’s Dia Campbell

      March 26, 2014

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      Interview with Julia Koerner

      March 20, 2014

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      Interview with Akseli Reho from Clothing Plus

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      Conductive Tattoos Turn Your Skin Into An Interface

      August 24, 2016

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      Biofabrication: The New Revolution in Material Design

      August 23, 2016

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      Aerochromics: Pollution Monitoring Garments Aim to Become A Sixth Skin

      August 17, 2016

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      Biomimicry and Sports Apparel

      August 15, 2016

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      Smart Fabrics Conference May 11 – 13

      April 27, 2015

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      Techno Textiles – Concordia University

      January 18, 2016

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      Smart Fabrics + Wearable Technology 2015 Review

      July 8, 2015

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      Explore and Learn from the Students of the Wearables Class at CCA

      April 19, 2015

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      Make It Wearable Winners

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Decentralized Clothing Production: Electroloom

written by Meg

Two projects using technology in fashion caught my eye last week. These projects share a similar goal: decentralized clothing manufacture.  The idea is that if we are able to produce our clothes locally, we can eliminate a large part of the manufacturing and distribution chain that accounts for a big part of fashion’s carbon footprint.

The first project, Electroloom, promises “the world’s first 3D printer for clothes” and has received a grant and support from Alternative Apparel.  Their ambitious goal is to complete development of the 3D printer by the end of 2014.  Here’s a preview of what it may look like:

Using electrostatic filament extrusion techniques, the system will create a non-woven web on a body-mold like the one in the picture.  Remember Fabrican spray-on clothing that had us all so excited a few years back?  The technology is different, but as far as I can tell, the result will look similar.  Interested?  You can visit their website, but you won’t find much information there.  Try their Facebook page instead for updates and more info.  Scroll right to the start of their timeline and check the video of the first day of prototyping.  Exciting, but a long way to go: good luck Electroloom!

Maybe in the distant future, this means clothing replicators in every home, but for now, more practical applications might be local clothing stores producing bespoke items for individual customers.  This would mean swapping out the base mannequin for different sizes.  Of course, not everyone wants body-hugging designs, so there would have to be a method of including extra space (aka “ease”) into the designs.

This poses really interesting possibilities for fashion designers.  Personally, I’d love to see a more abstract approach, where you could order sprayed shapes and fit them together (by ironing?) to make zero-waste modernist styles.  And then bring them back next year for recycling.  But first things first, let’s wait until Electroloom is ready…

(Click here to read my post about another ‘clothing printer’, OpenKnit)

Decentralized Clothing Production: Electroloom was last modified: March 2nd, 2014 by Meg
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Gradient Blankets

written by Jeff Donaldson

A diffused gradient forms the basis of this series of machine knit design blankets.

Each stitch corresponds to each pixel of the 896 x 1104px digital file. Intricate patterns emerge as a result of converting a full colour gradient into three and four colour designs. Blankets are a 50/50 merino wool, acrylic blend, 190x155cm (75”x62”)

white, light gray, black

black, light blue, light gray, white

realization: j.donaldson
photography: nathaniel fowler
berlin 2014
glitchaus

Gradient Blankets was last modified: March 1st, 2014 by Jeff Donaldson
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“Smart” Wool that Regulates Temperature

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan

One of the primary functions of clothing is the regulation of body temperature. Traditionally we layer on clothes as the temperature drops but the acting of dressing and undressing as we move from outdoors to indoors is quite cumbersome.  

We’ve mastered garments that keep our bodies warm but wearables that keep us cool are more difficult to come by. Do sweat-wicking performance wear actually work? 

Adaptive Survival Clothing by Jacqueline Nanne is early stage smart textile experiments that aim at creating clothing that adapts body temperature. The textiles are designed with kinetic pores that open and close. Nitinol, a smart memory alloy, is used to actuate the textiles. 

Follow the development of the project here. 

“Smart” Wool that Regulates Temperature was last modified: February 28th, 2014 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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Beautiful Embroidered Circuits

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan

Check our these wonderful electronic and embroidery experiments by artist Wei Chieh Shih. This project is part of a residency at  ARQUETOPIA 2013. His prior work in wearables were experiments in spectacular stage wear embedded in lasers. Looking forward to seeing final results. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Embroidered Circuits was last modified: December 9th, 2013 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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Soft Robotic Skins for Architecture

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan

Check out these lovely kinetic material experiments that came out of a five day workshop organized by Dino Rossi of the Adaptive Systems Lab (ASL).

Students modeled their molds in Rhinocerous and fabricated them on a MakerBot 3D printer. The supple skins were made from a soft silicone and controlled using an Arduino and pneumatic valves.

The results are quite mesmerizing. 

Soft Robotic Skins for Architecture was last modified: December 9th, 2013 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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Resinance 2.0

written by responsive design studio

Resinance 2.0 is the successor of Resinance, realized six month after the first project. Its general system is building upon the initial installation with improved behavioural complexity and technical and material resilience. The project emerged from a student application to showcase the work at the 2013 ACADIA conference at the school of architecture, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, Canada.

While the main concept of the installation is similar to the previous one, e.g. responsive smart material elements, that change colour when physically touched and share the information with their neighbouring elements in order to develop a global emergent behaviour based on local interactions, several parts of the installation are significantly different.

Topology
The layout of the installation is changed to a linear arrangement consisting of ten clusters, each containing three elements. The clusters are linked wireless and constantly communicate their current state to a Master node, which compiles the information and gives it back to the respective module. Every cluster is sitting atop an acrylic base that both provides stability when the elements are moving and also houses the necessary electronic an mechanical components.

Sensing
The sensing capabilities of the individual elements are vastly simplified. While in Resinance piezo-vibration sensors are used to measure human interaction, in Resinance 2.0 a metallic mesh has been embedded into the polyester resin walls. The mesh, which was added during the rotational casting process, is used as a capacitive proximity sensor. This allowes visitors to interact with the modules all over their surface and makes them directly experience the change of temperature when touching.

Actuation
In addition to the shivering motion, which was improved by moving the vibrators from the side to a less obtrusive position at the bottom of the individual elements, a stepper motor is included, which slowly raises the centre of each cluster, when the elements have reached their peak temperature. Since due to both aesthetic reasons and in order to speed up the heating process the fans are facing inwards, the motion, which resembles a blossoming flower, opens the air inlets and hence triggers simultaneously with the cooling process. Moreover the colour change is drastically sped up by using two heaters per element instead of one.

Communication
The exchange of information between the individual clusters happens wireless. Custom designed shields are used to control the various electronic components, like heaters, temperature sensors, vibrators, motors, etc. The shields are attached to Arduino Fio boards equipped with X-Bee radios in order to communicate with adjacent clusters. A visual interface, which runs on a nearby screen, graphically displays every element, their current temperature, whether they are in a heating or cooling process, how often they have been touched and when the last touch has occurred. The elements not only have memory of their popularity, measured by the amount of touches, but also try to return to their initial calm state by gradually deducting points from their counter if not enough interaction happens. The speed of this process is largely depending on the popularity of the respective element.

The project was developed at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zürich and has been exhibited at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, during the 2013 ACADIA conference.

Credits
Design and Material Research: Achilleas Xydis
Electronics and Interaction Design: Joel Letkemann
Collaborators: Demetris Shammas, Evi Xexaki, Maria Smigielska, Mariana Popescu, Nan Jiang, Yuko Ishizu
ACADIA support: Farzin Asad, Zak Fish, Connor O’Grady
Supervision: Manuel Kretzer

CAAD, 2013

Resinance 2.0 was last modified: December 2nd, 2013 by responsive design studio
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Stylekick iOS app launch!

written by FashioningTech Contributor

Straight-up fashion inspiration

We’re inviting you to experience the simplest and cleanest way to discover fashion on iPhone. Whether you’re a fashion blogger, or just care about style, Stylekick is the best way to find inspiration and share your own with trendsetters from around the world.

A simple, beautiful app

  1. With a swipe, browse fullscreen high-resolution images just like you would in a lookbook.
  2. Double-tap on any part of an outfit to keep a clipping of it for future inspiration.
  3. Hold down on any image to instantly share via Twitter.

All the smarts

The app learns from your style decisions and only shows you styles and outfits best suited to your tastes.
We’re only interested in showing off the best and most relevant content personalized to you. The app borrows heavily from the work we’re putting into building a next-generation search and comparison engine for apparel, so you know it’s absolutely cutting-edge.

Check us out in the iOS app store now!

Stylekick iOS app launch! was last modified: November 4th, 2013 by FashioningTech Contributor
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Hydrophobic Patterns

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan

These lovely textile patterns by designer Jetske Visser were created by exploiting the hydrophobic reaction between water and oil based pigments. The resulting patterns from the natural repulsion of oil and water are delicate, fragmented and highly unpredictable. Visser fixates the fractal patterns onto both silk and ceramics. 

When I first saw her work, I assumed that the patterns were algorithmically generated and it was quite a delight to discover that her process was more organic. 

Hydrophobic Patterns was last modified: August 2nd, 2013 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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Smart Textiles You’ve Yet to See

written by Syuzi Pakhchyan

You’ve probably seen water-repellant textiles where droplets of water miraculously bubble upon contact with the fabric. You may even own a pair of moisture-wicking workout pants. Smart fabrics have slowly made their way into the consumer market primarily in fitness wear but the potentials of using  smart textiles with such fantastical capabilities stil remains relatively unexplored. 

Below are five magical materials that will capture you’re imagination and provide a glimpse to the novel functional properties of our future wardrobe. 

Self-Repairing Fabric

In the near future you may never need to mend a pair of socks. Just watch the video — it’s incredible. 

Aloe Vera Fabric 

Infused with microscopic, airtight and waterproof aloe vera “capsules,” your clothes will not only protect you from the wind and rain but also nourish your skin. 

Wrangler’s Denim Spa jeans promises to keep your skin smooth and moisturized. You can purchase them from Asos of $144.

Water Soluble Textiles

Clothes that dissolve and disappear may solve Fashion Fashion’s sustainability crisis. 

Environmentally Responsive Fabrics

Similar to the way our skin responds with goosebumps when we feel a slight chill, our garments will too be subtly and poetically responsive to environmental factors. CLIMATOLOGY is an exploration of the way our environments and garments may shift shape and color in response to environmental changes such as moisture, heat and light. 

Bio-Leather 

Putting microbes to work, Suzanne Lee grows a flexible, translucent material with similar properties to leather. 

Smart Textiles You’ve Yet to See was last modified: July 15th, 2013 by Syuzi Pakhchyan
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FuturoTextiles 3

written by kristinneidlinger

FuturoTextiles 3 is currently on exhibit in Paris. From thread made of lava rock to dresses made from wine, the future of textiles are on display. Pictured is the SENSOREE GER Mood Sweater by Kristin Neidlinger. More photos of the exhibit here.

If you can not get to France, there is also a book highlighting the past three exhibits of innovative fashions and fabrics. Oui oui!

Futurotextiles 3 is an exhibition mixing science, technology and art with textile, taking us on a discovery journey through the world of textiles and its astonishing diversity.

FuturoTextiles 3 was last modified: June 22nd, 2013 by kristinneidlinger
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