10 Smart Clothes You'll Be Wearing Soon In the emerging Internet of Things, everyday objects are becoming networked. Clothing is no exception. It's still early days for Web-enabled clothes - the best example so far is the Nike+ running shoe, which contains sensors that connect to the user's iPod. In the following list of ten 'smart clothing' items, we showcase Internet pants, a proximity sensing shirt, a heart sensing bra, biosensor underwear, a "thought helmet", and more! Motion Detecting Pants Now, we're know what you're thinking - it's already pretty easy to detect 'motion' in pants isn't it? These smart pants work via a loom that helps sew the wires and fabric together. Proximity Sensing Shirt The Locked ON Proximity Sensing T-Shirt is currently available at the ThinkGeek store. Heart Sensing Bra The Numetrex heart sensing bra uses electronic modules and silver coated electrodes to pick up a person's heart rate and transmit the data to a watch worn on the wrist. Smart Running Shoes See ReadWriteWeb's review of the Nike+ shoes.
Marketing Progress - Des étagères connectées dans des supermarchés Publié le 20 octobre 2013 Un monde où chaque objet de tous les jours serait équipé d’une technologie d’identification par le Web n'est plus très loin. H.G Wells ou George Orwell n’y avaient pas pensé mais les marques oui. Avec son rayon intelligent, le groupe Mondelez confirme les bases de la customisation marketing de demain. L’extrait de naissance n’a pas encore traversé l’Atlantique mais suscite la curiosité aux Etats-Unis, après l’officialisation faite dans le Wall Street Journal : fier concepteur d’une progéniture marketing fondatrice d’un temps nouveau, Mondelez est heureux de présenter son nouveau né, l’étagère intelligente. Le marketing confirme son intérêt pour L’Internet of Things Interrogée par Business Insider, la porte-parole de la marque Valerie Moens explique : « savoir que le consommateur montre de l’intérêt dans un produit (nous) permet de nous adresser à lui en temps réel ». Benjamin Adler Rubrique réalisée en partenariat avec Uniteam TAGS : identification / Mondelez / USA
Exploring public perceptions of future wearable computing As scientists develop the next wave of smartwatches and other wearable computing, they might want to continue focusing their attention on the arms and the wrists. According to a recent Georgia Tech study, portable electronic devices placed on the collar, torso, waist or pants may cause awkwardness, embarrassment or strange looks. In a paper titled "Don't Mind Me Touching My Wrist," Georgia Tech researchers reported the results of a case study of interaction with on-body technology in public. Specifically, they surveyed people in both the United States and South Korea to gain cultural insights into perceptions of the use of e-textiles, or electronic devices, stitched into everyday clothing. For the study, researchers directed participants to watch videos of people silencing incoming phone calls using e-textile interfaces on various parts of their body, including wrists, forearms, collarbones, torsos, waists and the front pant pocket. According to the study:
What Your Kitchen Will Look Like In 2025 A typical product development cycle for corporate industrial designers lasts two to three years, which means today's designers are working on products that won't hit shelves until 2015 or 2016. In GE's appliance unit, four teams of industrial designers were asked to dream up what kinds of products they might expect the company to release in 2025 to suit the domestic lifestyles of the near future. More conceptual than practical, the Home 2025 challenge invited designers at GE Appliance's home base in Louisville, Kentucky, to combine research on cultural and demographic trends--like an aging U.S. population, the decrease in demand for larger homes, and the increasing demand for fresh produce--as well as technological shifts to imagine how products should evolve to match a new American life. The results are both tangible and thoughtful. "Each group was assigned not just a living environment," explains Lou Lenzi, industrial design director for GE Appliances.
Google X Display Guru Says Wearable Computing Is Unstoppable Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division for Google’s notoriously secret hardware innovation lab, Google X–which is building the Google Glass head-worn computer–took the stage at EmTech Thursday to talk about innovation, creativity, and, naturally, wearable computing. While Jepsen apologized a few times for being unable to divulge what, specifically, she’s working on over at Google (“Sergey insists,” she said apologetically at one point, referring to company cofounder Sergey Brin), she did share a number of thoughts related to her division and the changing face of consumer electronics, among other topics. Below are some of her distilled thoughts. She believes wearable computers are “a way of amplifying you,” saying that for years she felt that a laptop is an extension of her mind. “It’s coming.
Impression 3D, mouvement « maker » : fabriquer la société de demain avec Mathilde Berchon RSLN a parlé avec l’une des expertes les plus actives dans la communauté de la fabrication digitale. Entre San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, entre autres, Mathilde Berchon repère et rencontre les startups et les acteurs qui sont en train d’inventer un nouveau monde de création bâti autour de fablabs, de hackerspaces, de la fabrication collaborative et ouverte. Mathilde Berchon est consultante en communication spécialisée dans la fabrication digitale. Vous avez créée le blog « Making Society » (faire la société). Le mouvement maker est né de l'idée de faire se rencontrer tous ceux qui aiment fabriquer avec leurs mains (ou avec des robots), créer et comprendre comment les choses fonctionnent pour mieux les modifier. C'est un mouvement à la fois très léger, poétique, mais aussi ancré face aux problématiques de surproduction et de consommation de masse. Vous êtes également l'auteur du premier livre en français sur le thème de l'impression 3D. Je suis une grande fan de Printrbot.
carinna 22 mars 2006 à Saint Quentin : Les textiles instrumentés - TextilAisne Dans le cadre du "club de veille technologique" , Textil'Aisne Picardie, en partenariat avec l'IFTH, propose une réunion thématique pour les industriels sur "Les textiles instrumentés " Mercredi 22 mars 2006 à Saint Quentin. Inscription auprès de Isabelle Pudepièce. Les textiles instrumentés « Réunion du Club de veille du Mercredi 22 mars 2006 »Plan d'accès : Programme : 09h15 - Rassemblement à la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de l'Aisne Plan d'accès : - - Etat de l'art sur les Textiles instrumentés. Les vêtements intelligents et communicants Après une collaboration de plus d'un an, la société NJTEC et l'Ecole nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (ENSAIT) présentent Uranium ©, première ligne mondiale innovante de vêtements intelligents et communicants.
Wearable Computing at the MIT Media Lab What's a Wearable? To date, personal computers have not lived up to their name. Most machines sit on the desk and interact with their owners for only a small fraction of the day. Smaller and faster notebook computers have made mobility less of an issue, but the same staid user paradigm persists. Wearable computing hopes to shatter this myth of how a computer should be used. News: October 2005 Michael Sung successfully defended his doctorate work on "Non-Invasive Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous Health Monitoring and Long-Term Behavior Modeling" Mark Blum from ETH finished his master's thesis work on "LifeWear" after six months at lab. September 2005 Anmol Madan's Jerk-O-Meter news roundup: CNN, Wired, National Geographic, and ZDNet. July 2005 The Reality Mining cell phone project was featured in a Wired News article. June 2005 Will wearable sensing technologies soon allow your cell phone to predict your emotions? April 2005 Nathan Eagle will be defending on April 25 at 11:00am.