Wearable Techwear is Our Past. Present. Future.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

3D Jewelry using Source of Energy Ourselves

I've been stumbling around the net and have been roaming my eyeballs over a few articles about jewelry being in the what-we-call-for now "wearables" department and when suddenly...flash I glanced at my Facebook and found something else to talk about it's an example of an industrial designer who will blow your mind or at least she did with mine! I know I'm so dramatic anyhow...

 Naomi Kizhner, an Israeli graduate student, toyed with idea of using the energy within ourselves when designing her jewelry line. Imagine having a piece of jewelry with prongs like structures at the end to probe into our veins to create energy to power our world if we ran out of it or just because we wanted the energy. Her jewelry line caught my eye because I like the idea of how her design takes on a problem and applies a minimalist solution approach to it. I remember giving a glimpse of one of her jewelry pieces to someone next to me in my class and their eyes widened with shock yet curiosity. And that's what Noami wanted, she wanted to stirrup some thought on the fact that we could someday develop her ideas, but would we want to?

Some would say invasive
 Some would say this is creepy
    I say it's thought provoking and cool.
       Why deny something that is interesting?
            Look at people watching American Horror Story same shit, don't you think?
                Yet criticizing someone for coming up with a design that invokes the idea of using our energy as a source. Yep...sure is creepy.
(side note I really like American Horror Story too!)

Lots of Wearable Fun To Come,
@DameofTechWear
wearable tech engager...


Check out below the jewelry piece, "blood bridge" made out of gold and 3D- printed biopolymer. Oh and of course Naomi Kizhner's  crazy cool energy addict video!








Attribution:

Naomi Kizhner

Dezeen

Techie Tonics


Thursday, October 16, 2014

Wearables Word Search



Hey
I thought it would be fun to generate a word search puzzle for wearables. I thought it would be something different and something fun perhaps maybe even something easy to do. Bring out your inner child and go at it. Let me know how it goes!
This is to all my blog readers thanks for supporting me so far hope to keep it going!

Best Wishes,

Top Three Contests on Wearables

1. 2015 PLT Labs Application Innovation Contest

Press Release 
Application 

Calling all you inventors and innovator of the wearables tech world. Here is a contest for you. Contestants from 33 countries are able to compete for a total of $85,000 in cash prizes. Innovators will have access to Plantronics  APIS, SDKs and other product concept prototypes so they may be explored to new potentials in the following models:


  • Business Applications for Mobile Devices Applications
  • People with Limited Mobility
  • Personal Applications for Mobile Devices






2. Techsurge Startup Challenge


This is a spectacular challenge for those who have tartups in the IT and Electronic scene. Fancy yourself a chance at a custom business development program and top of the line digital infrastructure and smart grid? Does a grand prize of $100,000 in seed financing? Best part of all is even if you don't win being part of the program will benefit your startup and whomever is involved. The length of this challenge is 3 months and the program is individually designed to aid and mature your startup company. In that case you will still be able to accelerate your business potential!








3. Techsurge Startup Challenge

Register


 The WT Innovation World Cup is the worldwide leading competition in the area of wearable technologies. Get inspired to design the next big wearable products!
In the following groups: 


  • Sports & Fitness
  • Healthcare & Wellness
  • Safety & Security
  • Gaming & Lifestyle and special prizes “Smart Clothing” and “blukii® App 2.0”
  • $5,000 cash prize for the ‘WT Innovator of the Year’
  • ‘Smart Textiles’ and ‘blukii® App 2.0′ Special Prizes
  • Placement on the ‘Hall of Fame’
  • Opportunity to present your innovative solution at WT Conference in Europe
  • Speaking opportunities at international conferences
  • Dedicated on-line and off-line marketing activities to promote the finalists, the category winners and the ‘WT Innovator of the Year’
  • Access to the worldwide network of Innovation World Cup Series, opportunity to connect with important market players at a very early stage of product development
  • Business Acceleration
  • Software Development Kits provided by our partner STMicroelectronics at a discounted rate (up to 100%). Learn more about the SDKs here.
  • NUCLEO F401RE STM32 Nucleo development board for STM32 F4 series – with STM32F401RE MCU, supports Arduino
  • X NUCLEO IDB04A1 Bluetooth low energy expansion board based on BlueNRG for STM32 Nucleo
  • STEVAL IDB003V1 A BlueNRG IC based Bluetooth® Smart USB dongle" (Bizplan)

If you have any competitions, contests or challenges that belong on my list right now feel free to let me know!


From,
@DameofTechWear


#techwear #wearabletech #wearables #digitalfashion


Attribution
IdeaConnection
Bizplan

Sunday, October 12, 2014

#Wearables Who wants some Raspberry Pi and Adafruit?



Okay so my title is a bit silly, but I am so glad that I stumbled upon the Wearit Berlin Event because it has opened my eyes to many new concepts, ideas, and new love for #wearables #techwear. Now I'd really would like to open your world up with this company called Adafruit ever heard of  them? I've been exploring there website and it could take several hours to figure out what DIY electronic wearables project that I would like to try out first. The company was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor Fried. This NY base company is flourishing in open source electronic kits for people to do at home.  In addition to getting down with Adafruit it's all about that Raspberry Pi, which is from my understanding two concepts: an educational charity foundation based in UK and it is "a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV and uses a standard keyboard and mouse...it's capable of doing everything you'd expect a desktop computer to do." (Raspberry Pi Foundation) This device will enable a user to be able to make there own wearable electronics and more.

Here are some examples of Adafruit tutorials:

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There are approximately 607+ tutorials. When I have sometime I'd love to make my sneakers light up! Join Adafruit network and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Hope this was a nice intro to this concept as I read more I will post more on this subject matter.

Virtual Wave From Me to You,
@DameofTechWear
#techwear #wearabletech #wearables #digitalfashion






Attribution:
Adafruit Youtube
Adafruit Learning System
Adafruit
Raspberry Pi Foundation



Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Top Ten Kickstarter Projects aka #wearables

This isn't a particular order, but I find these very fascinating. Let me know what you think of them?




Rollerblade to a newer dimension. I can picture myself using these around campus or in a city. I'm all about not wasting my money on taxis and use that money for other materialistic consumption. The only thing I would like them to be is waterproof, but that will come with time. On the other hand I rather skate in nice and sparkling weather. What do you think of these rocket skates?




Love this & the artist!



Why doesn't my smartphone do this?

 

Costume!


 

A start to adding technology to our wardrobes. Easy accessible & different
 
All I have to say is YES.

 
It reminds me of lite brite, but more advanced. I would think it would be fun to get a kit and build
your own

!
 

I would use this because I always have my cellphone out and it would be nice to be just aware to check it and not have to constantly check it!
 


Safety first I think it is necessary to feel safe in this world of so many veichles on the road.


 

I can picture using this remote to link up with smart-watches, future techwear outfits, and live concerts in all sorts of areas. I think this product can be pushed further into the wearables spectrum.


Check out this website kickstarter. It is full of wonder and live projects. One day maybe I will use kickstarter for one of my ideas. Trust me I have a million of them once you get to know me.

Always Yours,
@DameofTechWear
#techwear #wearabletech #wearables #digitalfashion

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Techwear Festival: Wear it Berlin Event [October 11th-12th 2014]

"Wear It is the first festival for wearable electronics and arts in Berlin. Use for this year´s festival." @WearItBerlin this is from there twitter website.




If only I knew about this event earlier and/or had the money to go to Berlin, Germany to the Betahaus Berlin Venue. Nevertheless, I'm still pretty excited at what I found out about this event. Thomas Gnahm is the founder of this festival and Trafopop. Trafopop from my understanding is a creative-wearable-tech-wear-enthusiastic gang that share the love of combining technology and riding bikes. It is certainly more than just bikes and technology. His gang use old and new technologies to create the work while riding at night. They might be sewing and using open source codes to build their product-clothing lines. I think his digital-wearable-bike gang can build communities around the USA as well because Our world is working on #sustainability, #health, and the love for #bikes. I find him very inspirational and hope to push forth my passions in life to give back to communities, have a helluva-ton of fun and why not make some dollas on the way. Maybe this will be something I will be doing for halloween! Anyhow lets get back to the fantastically-electro-wear-tech showcase that this gent has created to invite world innovators to come together to do the following:

The Wear It expo is the start of the transition of technology and wearable artwork coming to life. I can picture that their will be many more events,demos, and exhibits in the near future because once society becomes more technology savvy we will want to be incorporating wearables in our life everyday or at least me! 


The speakers that are coming to this event include: Click Them Find Out More!

Kate Hartman 
                    + Art of Wearable Comm
Alex Murray-Leslie   
                        +E-shoe a High Heel Shoe Guitar
                  

Becky Stewart  
                    + GPS Shoe

Leslie Birch 

                    + Led Umbrella


Katharina Bredies
                     + Therapy device for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Mika Satomi
                     +DJ Hoodie
 

Thomas Gnahm
                     +Trafopop


There is absolutely a lot more to write about however click some links, ask me questions, and feel free to contact me if you are going to this event. I would like to enlighten people about your experience and give my blog a sequel piece.



Much Love,
         @DameofTechWear
#techwear #wearabletech #wearables #digitalfashion
#wearit14

 

 



Attribution & Images:
Berlin Wearable Technology Article
Twitter Wearitberlin
Wearit Event
Facebook Wearit
Speakers Wearit