Interactive Designs That You Can Wear (Sooner or Later)
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We looked across the Internet at what clever designing minds are doing
with interactive wearables.
Some of these products are for sale now, while other items are coming soon (according to their creators). And some of these things are great concept designs that live exclusively with their inventors for the moment. Here are some pieces of interactive apparel that we’d love to try out (or on).
Let’s start with a cool jacket intended to protect cyclists.
Some of these products are for sale now, while other items are coming soon (according to their creators). And some of these things are great concept designs that live exclusively with their inventors for the moment. Here are some pieces of interactive apparel that we’d love to try out (or on).
Let’s start with a cool jacket intended to protect cyclists.
Sporty Supaheroe Jacket for Night Bicycling (Concept)
All too often, cyclists are in danger of being run over, especially
after dark. Someday, this unusual piece of wearable technology may be
able to help.
The Utope Project, a cooperation between designer Wolfgang Langeder and Stretchable Circuits/Fraunhofer IZM, created the Sporty Supaheroe concept jacket, which has a flexible display of up to 64 RGB-LEDs placed in segments on the front, back, and shoulder areas.
The jacket’s lights can generate multiple colors and patterns. On top of that, the garment offers a visual link with a smartphone placed in the jacket’s pocket, and the wearer can tell whether a call is coming in by the way certain lights activate.
Image: Courtesy of Ubergizmo
The “Beauty and the Geek” concept design by Nieuwe Heren integrates a keyboard into a pair of jeans. Note that the mouse is attached, and should reside in your pocket when not in use.
This idea might be carrying the marriage of life and tech a little too far.
Image: Courtesy of Gizmag
When you’re wearing the Click Keypad Watch ($90), just touch a key, and the time will blink in single digits. You can set the watch on the 12-hour system or the 24-hour system. On the latter, if the time is, say, 1:12 p.m., the one, three, one, and two will blink in that order. If you want to know the date, press the pound key.
It requires a bit of thinking–but geeks like to do that, right? More
The Utope Project, a cooperation between designer Wolfgang Langeder and Stretchable Circuits/Fraunhofer IZM, created the Sporty Supaheroe concept jacket, which has a flexible display of up to 64 RGB-LEDs placed in segments on the front, back, and shoulder areas.
The jacket’s lights can generate multiple colors and patterns. On top of that, the garment offers a visual link with a smartphone placed in the jacket’s pocket, and the wearer can tell whether a call is coming in by the way certain lights activate.
Image: Courtesy of Ubergizmo
The “Beauty and the Geek” concept design by Nieuwe Heren integrates a keyboard into a pair of jeans. Note that the mouse is attached, and should reside in your pocket when not in use.
This idea might be carrying the marriage of life and tech a little too far.
Image: Courtesy of Gizmag
When you’re wearing the Click Keypad Watch ($90), just touch a key, and the time will blink in single digits. You can set the watch on the 12-hour system or the 24-hour system. On the latter, if the time is, say, 1:12 p.m., the one, three, one, and two will blink in that order. If you want to know the date, press the pound key.
It requires a bit of thinking–but geeks like to do that, right? More
