Fluid Dress is Knit from Plastic Tubing
Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
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Bike Helmet Fashion: Airbag Collar Depoys on Impact
Hövding, the inflatable airbag collar for cyclists, is developed by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin. Don’t miss the safety video showing the thing deploying in the instant of impact. [via Fashioning Technology]
How-To: Wooden LED Bracelet
Instructables user technoplastique writes: This bracelet is designed to showcase a special piece of wood veneer. In my case I had a small piece of olive ash that had a really beautiful grain pattern. It was suitable for framing, so I framed it into a bracelet. The LEDs behind the veneer add a warm glow […]
eTextile Fashion Show (video)
Lynne Bruning MCed the eTextile Fashion Show at World Maker Faire NY, here’s a video by Angela Sheehan and Rebecca Grabman with lots of interesting electronic wearables inside the stunning blue glass Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science. More: Amisha Gadani’s Blowfish Dress
How-To: Light-Up Leggings
Instructables intern Carleyy made these LED leggings and entered them in the Soft Circuit contest over there. Super cute, like a constellation on your legs!
DJ Battle Hoodies
So delightfully bizarre! Mika Satomi and Clemens Pichler developed these DJ hoodies with soft switches, zipper switches, and a knit stretch sensor to help performers engage in a DJ battle. Their project documentation is stellar! DJ Hoodie is a wearable interface that includes 4 channel zipper switch, fabric buttons with LED indicators and fabric pressure […]
Amisha Gadani’s Blowfish Dress
Amisha Gadani made this “Blowfish Dress,” a kinetic interactive outfit that inflates like a blowfish. While browsing through a book of marine images, I was inspired by the sudden and quite comical defense system of blowfish. I began to muse of ways in which humans could benefit from and appropriate these behaviors and so came […]
