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Dezeen. Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have created a series of smart temporary tattoos that can control devices through touch (+ movie).

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The team, led by PhD student Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao and working with Microsoft Research, designed the DuoSkin transfers to look like the gold and silver flash tattoos that are popular at music festivals. But unlike regular stick-ons, DuoSkin is made from gold metal leaf. As a conductive material, it can interact with an electronic circuit that responds to touch. In the current prototype, the gold leaf traces are connected to a microcontroller and wireless communication unit that enables interaction with smartphones, computers and other devices. Working alongside Microsoft's research division, the group developed four patterns for four different uses.

"This is something we purposefully wanted to make accessible to anyone," said Kao. Project Jacquard. Ravijour - TRUE LOVE TESTER. Projet Jacquard : Google se met aux vêtements high-tech. Les vêtements vont-ils devenir la prochaine extension de notre environnement numérique ?

Projet Jacquard : Google se met aux vêtements high-tech

Alors que les objets et accessoires connectés commencent à peine à se démocratiser, Google planche déjà sur l'étape suivante avec les textiles intelligents. "Technology adds an incredible advantage to fashion design" Fashion and technology: in the first part of a series focusing on designers who are introducing the fashion world to new technologies, Dezeen speaks to architect Julia Körner about how advances in 3D scanning, modelling and printing are creating a "revolution in customised fashion pieces within ready to wear" (+ interview + slideshow). 3D-printed garments have become a common sight on the Haute Couture catwalks of designers like Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen.

"Technology adds an incredible advantage to fashion design"

Austrian architect Julia Körner, who collaborated with Van Herpen on these digitally fabricated garments, is now working on transferring the technology used to create the elaborate garments into everyday clothing production as part of what she calls an "exciting moment in fashion design". "Body scanning and 3D-modelling techniques allow you to design towards a perfect fit, and through minimal changes in the code I can create variations of adaptations in the design," she told Dezeen.

Google reveals Android Wear, an operating system for smartwatches. Google is officially getting into wearables.

Google reveals Android Wear, an operating system for smartwatches

The company has announced Android Wear, a version of the operating system designed specifically for wearable devices. To start with, the system is made for smartwatches, and Google is moving aggressively to make itself the key name in wearables. The company has released two videos that show off what the watch interface will look like, and from what we've seen, it's very impressive. Make It Wearable Part 3: Human Expression. When we last left off, our five part documentary series, Make It Wearable (in support of Intel's Make It Wearable challenge), dove into the possibilities for wearable technology to improve health and medicine—a look into how we can improve our insides with tech that comes from the outside world.

Make It Wearable Part 3: Human Expression

For part three, Human Expression, we're looking at our exteriors, at how wearables are pushing fashion and clothing design into new frontiers. Fashion has always been an experimental field that drives art and creativity into places that could only be described as sui generis. Washing Wearable Electronics. Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish.

Wearable technology, la technologie InStyle ! La Wearable Technology, tout le monde en parle, mais le concept reste encore un peu abstrait.

Wearable technology, la technologie InStyle !

D’abord parce que la technologie se perfectionne à peine ; 2012 a vu naître les premiers projets réellement aboutis, fonctionnels et commercialisables. Ensuite parce que la Wearable Technology, c’est bien, c’est beau mais c’est cher ! Alors entrons dans le monde merveilleux de la « technologie qui se porte » ! Le principe : intégrer la technologie aux objets qui ne nous encombrent pas ceux que nous portons, en opposition à ceux que nous transportons. L’idée est de nous faciliter la vie, en l’intégrant aux vêtements, et aux accessoires. mais la spécificité c’est qu’elle doit également être portable, dans le sens de mode, fashion, de bon goût… La technologie doit pouvoir s’afficher sans rougir et nous accompagner dans tous les moments de la vie (oui oui , même en public !)

Pure technologie Pantalon Beauty And The Geek Zioneyez HD video glasses Art technologie La WT a également dimension artistique. The world's first programmable t-shirt. Internet-connected LED T-shirt lets you flash the world. T-shirts have long been used to express opinions, assert individuality, and spread messages.

Internet-connected LED T-shirt lets you flash the world

The tshirtOS prototype is trying to become the first commercially available programmable, Internet-connected digital T-shirt. Would You Wear an Internet-Connected T-Shirt? Future fashion now. LED Minidresses - The Hussein Chalayan Video Dress Contains 15,000 LEDs. Video Dresses. Nieuwe Heren. Fashion and Technology. Solarcoterie.com. The Future of Wearable Technology. Microsoft Hits New York Fashion Week With Twitter Dress at Bloomingdale's.

Microsoft's Twitter Dress Is Way More Appealing Than it Should Be. Fashion Innovations in 3D Printing. Iris van Herpen & Daniel Widrig's 2010 collaboration with .MGX by Materialise TICKETS SOLD OUT!

Fashion Innovations in 3D Printing

View the event on Livestream. As part of the Computational Fashion program series, Eyebeam presents an exciting event featuring designers and producers using cutting edge 3D printing techniques to push the boundaries of fashion. From the runway to the DIY hackerspace, 3D printing and rapid prototyping have become an increasingly popular and accessible way to produce objects that are both highly complex and easily replicable. Wearable Technology.