Check out ArduinoFun’s LilyPad Arduino “passion-sensing” scarf. It uses infrared emitter/detector pairs to sense when one wearer is near another, changing the color of the onboard LED. I wonder if this matching scarf set is an early Valentine’s Day prototype
What a lovely video about animating textiles with SMA (shape memory alloys aka “muscle wire”), which expants and contracts when varying currents are passed through it. These are studies in the field by Lynda Fletcher, a student at Central Saint Martins. [via Fashioning Technology]
(Photography by: Carlos Linares III) Alison of Switch made this beautiful lighted wedding dress for her friend Julia’s beachy wedding in Hawaii. Alison writes: The final dress has a soft glowing under skirt with a splash of light on the bodice and finishes at the shoulders with feather-like tendrils. It runs on 4 AAA batteries, […]
Use a small amount of conductive thread sewn onto your glove’s fingertip to use your touch screen phone! Touch screens work by measuring the way your skin conducts electricity, so the thread connects the screen and your finger through the insulating barrier of your gloves. [via craftycrafty]
Sew a circuit, knit a sensor, electrify your wardrobe, it’s CRAFT’s Getting Started in Wearable Technology Gift Guide! Check out our Soft Circuit and Fashion Tech archives for project inspiration, and then look here for all the supplies to get your holiday shopping done! Conductive thread (~$20) There are many different places to get conductive […]
Kirk Mueller‘s been experimenting with conductive inks to make silkscreened and stenciled wallpaper. His juicy photos look promising, I can’t wait to see interactive wallpaper that responds to touch. In another experiment he used a heating element and thermochromic ink to make illustrations of STD cells appear on a panel. [via Fashioning Technology]
Stijn Ossevoort designed this dress, called Flare, which is embellished with wind-sensitive electronic dandelions. I wish there were a video of it in action, or some more information on how the dress is sensing air movement! [via Fashioning Technology]
