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eTextile DIY treasure chest – Plug and WearRiccardo Marchesi started around a year ago the online shop Plug and Wear to provide the eTextile community with a one-stop-shop offering eTextile designer a large selection of materials for wearable electronic projects. The relative new area of wearable electronic with it’s specific eTextile components does not yet have a structure of well established resources, online and offline, such as electronics, knitting, sewing or textiles offer to the DIY community. Over the past 12 month Riccardo not only managed to get a good selection of components into the Plug and Wear shop, he added sections offering very interesting Tutorials to demonstrate and inspire people who plan to design eTextile projects
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eTextile DIY treasure chest – Plug and Wear
Pretty Smart Textiles is the name of an exhibition about and around the latest innovations in eTextiles from Dutch artists and designers including Daan Roosegaarde, Maartje Dijkstra, Meg Grant, Nicky Assmann, Dorith Sjardijn, Melissa Coleman, Heike Sperber, Marina Venendaal, Karina van Heck, Florian Kräutli, Aduen Darriba, Joachim Rotteveel, Anouk Wipprecht, Charlotte ‘t Hart, Evelyn Lebis, Paula Kassenaar, Paula Segura Meccia and Mark Kwikkers. Design.nl published a interview with the curators Melissa Coleman and Dorith Sjardijn about the motivation behind the exhibition and their view of the future of smart textiles
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Pretty Smart Textiles
Connecting to yesterdays article of solar power harvesting fabrics for sun management outside I found an interesting design concept for sun light management indoors. The Energy curtain designed by Anders Ernevi , Margot Jacobs , Ramia Mazé , Carolin Müller , Johan Redström and Linda Worbin at the Interactive Institute , a Swedish experimental media research institute that combines expertise in art, design and technology.
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Solar Energy curtain
Dorothy Perkins have just released a fantastic new offer for this week. Available exclusively online, they are offering 25% off shoes plus every shoe order enters the customer in to their prize draw to win a year’s supply of dresses! This offer is running all week, expires Friday 11th June at midnight
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Dorothy Perkins Have Just Released A Fantastic New Offer For This Week
Evans have some fantastic offers launching on site this week. From today, they will be offering the following: 20% off holiday shop: Up to 30% off shoes All of these offers expire Friday 11th June. Here are this week’s top sellers: Black Linen Crops Only £16 Printed maxi dress Only £39.50 Rainbow tie dye dress Only £39.50 Tribal print embroidered dress Only £45 Aztec maxi dress Only £39.50 Only £29.50 Lilac sequin skirt Only £29.50 Animal Print kaftan Only £27
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Evans Have Some Fantastic Offers Launching All Items On Sales
Color changing, light emitting textiles are captivating, they radiate sophistication and innovation. But to achieve a pleasant to look effect is very challenging form a technology point of view. A collaboration between Joanna Berzowska at XS Labs and Maksim Skorobogatiy at the Advanced Photonic Structures Group , both based in Canada, formed the ‘ Karma Chameleon ‘ to research and develop ‘ interactive electronic garments constructed out of a new generation of composite fibers that are able to harness power directly from the human body, store that energy, and then use it to change their own visual properties ‘
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Photonic Textiles by Karma Chameleon
Interactive clothing is attracted the interest of performers who are experimenting with the possibilities technology enhanced costumes to add a new dimension of interaction to their shows. You might say this is not new, costumes have always been one of the attention points of performances. Yes, this is correct but by embedding technologies these costumes can create their own activity, interacting with the performer instead of being passive, an eye candy or a static representation
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DIY – Wireless Dance Costume
This summer, Kate Moss presents a beautiful collection of vintage inspired pieces. Drawing upon an eclectic mix of eras, styles, fabrics and colours, Kate’s latest pieces capture her bohemian take on dressing perfectly. From casual summer frocks and show-stopping evening gowns to tailored shorts and delicate silk blouses, there are stunning styles for every occasion
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Topshop Kate Moss – New Collection Just Launched
With all the hype surrounding illuminated clothing, especially among artists on stage, I thought to beam up the illuminated Tuxedo Michael Jackson would have worn on the ‘ This is It ‘ if things in his life would have turned out for a better. Fashion designer Zaldy who created outfits for the likes of Gwen Stefani , Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez designed for Michael Jackson’s ‘This is It tour’ his complete stage outfit including a illuminated Tuxedo for the ‘Billie Jean’ performance.
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This is It – Illuminated stage-wear as Michael Jackson would have done it
She has finally put to birth after a blissful pregnancy It’s a girl for Claudia Schiffer , who delivered her third child on Friday, May 14 at Portland Hospital in London. “Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn are proud to announce the birth of their baby daughter who was born on Friday May 14 in the early afternoon,” the couple’s rep said in a statement
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After the sad death of their son, in 2009, what great new it is to hear they are expecting, Preston, 47, is pregnant, the family tells PEOPLE. “It’s impossible to keep a secret … especially one as wonderful as this,” they say in a statement cross-posted to each of their Web sites. “We want to be the first to share this great news with everyone that we are expecting a new addition to our family
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston Are Expecting A New Addition To Their Family
Many of us look forward to a hot summer season but the apparel brands think one or two seasons ahead and prepare for the next winter already now. So even if you can not imagine right now to have cold feet again you might be interested in knowing that Columbia Sportswear will launch this autumn the Omni-Heat Boots that will keep your feet cozy warm on the coldest days thanks to an electronic heating system inside the shoes. Columbia Sportswear has already claimed the innovator spot with the launch of the electrically heated Bugathermo last season, a hot looking shoe with battery powered heating.
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Columbia Sportwear Omni-Heat Boots for Fall 2010
A topic that goes one step further than Wearable Electronic: Implantable Electronic. Wearable of course but this new field of electronics g=does not stop on the skin, it goes under the skin. For me, implantable electronic is as fascinating as wearable electronic as both aim to use cutting edge technologies to improve life quality.
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Implantable Electronics
GapEmbroidered Shift Dress With the uncertainty of this year summer weather a little bit of cover dresses like this dresses keeps the cold away, comes in sizes 18 months to 3 years, price is £22.50 Little ASOS Chambray Pintuck Dress . You can wear them on our little ones with leggings or tights, comes in sizes 0 to 3 years, prices is £14.00
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Little ASOS Chambray Pintuck Dress.
Meredith Scheff , self proclaimed artist, writer, mechanic and fabricator posted a really cool design of a soft, sew-through circuit board using DuPont’s Pyralux Copper Clad Laminate , a very thin and flexible sheet of polyimide which has copper on one side. If you are familiar with making your own PCBs you will know how to make this soft version and if you are not experienced in DIY PCBs – just follow the nicely organized overview from Meredith over at SteampunkWorkshop .
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DIY soft electronics: Sew-through circuit board
The KlimaJack (Climate Jacket) research project, a collaboration between German clothing companies and universities under the lead of ITIV (Institute for Information Processing Technology) aims to create climate controlling wearable systems integrated into clothing.
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KlimaJack – self regulating climate inside a jacket
The month of May is often associated with Love like ‘love is in the air’ when nature awakes finally from the winter hyper-nation and starts it’s new love-life cycle. What better time could there be to introduce another project from the AiQ Smart Clothing Design Contest in Taiwan, the Silver Wing Award winning Love Shirt designed by students at the National Taiwan University (NTU). The Love Shirt which comes in a pair to show off it’s capability is designed to express the love of the wearer to another person at two levels: a visual and a tactile communication between the garments to express the affection between to love birds T-Shirts
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