Wearable and Interactive Products (WIP)

Hannah Perner-Wilson talks wearables live from Boston

Suzi Webster — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:21:45 +0000

Hannah Perner-Wilson, also known as Plusea at Instructibles, will be giving a skype artist’s talk for Suzi Webster’s fall wearables class, on September 24 live from MIT in Boston.

Perner-Wilson is currently a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group lead by Leah Buechley at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores material properties for their use in creating handmade human-computer interfaces. Focusing on the documentation and development of available and affordable technology that allows more of us to DIY, modify and fix the technology that surrounds us. Since 2006 she has collaborated with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT. In 2009, as research fellows at the Distance Lab in Scotland, KOBAKANT published an online database for their DIY wearable technology titled HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. Hannah holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Design from the Art University of Linz, Austria.

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Nitinol

Suzi Webster — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:11:55 +0000

Shape memory alloy experiments ShapeMemoryAlloyTest2

and nitinol1

Bobby and Suzi experiment

A wearable visualization

mlantin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Here is an interesting and beautiful project by Mitchell Whitelaw that uses weather data mapping to create a virtual form that is 3D-printed and worn.

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Open Source Embroidery

dburg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:27:33 +0000

Katherine Soucie pointed me to this interesting project from the uk.

Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier

mlantin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:32:06 +0000

Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier

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IMEC designs flexible chip for wearables

mlantin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:11:27 +0000

ultra-thin flexible wireless monitoring system by IMEC.

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Thermochromic Inks in Wearables Class

mlantin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:42:23 +0000

Experiments in thermochromic inks

Suzi Webster has been introducing her students to thermochromic inks. See here is the blackboard in the IDS first floor foyer. Also in that space, for a limited time, the student work will be displayed. Don’t miss it!

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Video Conference in Wearables class

mlantin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:35:24 +0000

Suzi Webster organizes international guest presenters to come to her class via video conferencing. The setup use two screens, one for the remote presenter and one for any materials they want to show the class. The pictures below show the following presenters:

Gary Cass and Donna Franklin
Perth Australia
Micro-be fermented fashion http://bioalloy.org/o/projects/microbe.html

Sabine Seymour
Linz Austria
Author of Fashionable Technology http://www.moondial.com/

Video Conference with Gary Cass and Donna Franklin

Video Conference with Sabine Seymour

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Call for papers – International Symposium on Wearables Computers

mlantin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:59:48 +0000

From the ISWC website: ISWC’09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC’09 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC’09 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date. We invite you to attend ISWC 2009 and submit your work to one or more of the following: long papers, short papers, posters, demonstrations, videos, late breaking results poster, tutorials and workshops. For first time, ISWC’09 will publish adjunct proceedings which will include the late breaking results, video papers, demonstrations, design papers of selected workshops. Download a PDF version of the CFP to print and distribute.

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Workbenches and electronics have arrived!

mlantin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:13:19 +0000

The 9 workbenches have arrived and will be assembled over the next few days by Simon and Rick. There was some damage to one of the cabinets and hopefully it will be replaced soon.

Electronic components have also arrived from Lee’s. Still on order are the oscilloscopes, Lego Mindstorm kits, the sewing supplies, and the storage units.