Purses made from Toothpaste Tubes
These purses by Grazia Bosco are stitched together from empty toothpaste tubes. It also appears they are closeable by using the tubes’ pre-existing caps and threads. Definitely a nice touch.
Wearables
Stage Combat Training Shirt w/Lilypad Arduino
Instructables user grossmr1 teaches stage combat, and was looking for a more efficient way to communicate sword target points to her students than language or pointing. The garment she designed features LEDs at various target points, and conductive pads on the fingers and thumb of one gauntlet. She can select which of the various target […]
Night Biking Gloves
Cool wearable tech from Irene Posch of Fashioning Technology. The wool gloves have conductive fibers knit into the fingertip and palm areas. Making a fist closes a circuit and lights up the LED arrows on the backs of the hands. 3V coin cells are accessible, but concealed, at the glove cuffs. The conductive thread in […]
How-To: Möbius Strip Wrist Band
Inspired by by XKCD #88, Instructables user Kiteman set out to make his own Möbius strip wristband, by the obvious method: Cutting a silicone wrist band, flipping one end over, and gluing it back together. He experimented with various adhesives before settling on Gorilla Glue. I would want to experiment with a silicone-based adhesive like Devcon 12045. Also, FWIW, it’s not expensive to have custom debossed silicone wristbands made, even in single-digit quantities.
Wearable Electronics in The New York Times
Some nice weekend coverage for our kissing cousins over at Adafruit, who are banking hard on the future of DIY wearable electronics with their new FLORA wearable Arduino-compatible microcontroller.
Make: Projects – Custom-Shaped Frameless Eyeglasses
Here is a process that would not have occurred to me. Make: Projects user Kiers knew enough about the machines used by eyeglass lens makers to know that they use a “dummy lens” template as a pattern to cut the outer profile of a lens. He found an accommodating online optician willing to use a […]
Night (Snow) Rider
What better way to light up a snowy night than to slash deep powder turns with a custom LED suit? Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton shot this awesome video of pro snowboarder William Hughes riding the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France wearing a suit made by John Spatcher. Goodbye […]
