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Name: kirsty boyle | kirsty@openmaterials.org
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V2_Events: Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology* V2_ Ground floor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam. May 20, 2009 8 p.m. Admission: free. *The term Fashionable Technology is coined by Sabine Seymour. This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl Featuring: Sabine Seymour (AT/US), Mark Coeckelbergh (B/NL), Aram Bartholl (DE), Cutecircuit: Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz (UK), and KOBAKANT: Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (JP/AT). Clothing is an aspect [...]
Written on May 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am by kirsty
oM loves Hannah Perner-Wilson’s (Plusea) tutorials and projects involving wearable technology and textile electronics. Above is one of her tutorials to make a bend sensor from textile duct tape, three layers of Velostat, conductive thread and fabric. It uses an Arduino and Processing to graph the sensor data. And one of her work-in-progress projects, a [...]
Written on May 8th, 2009 at 7:22 pm by kirsty
Researchers at Europe’s Atomic Energy Commission, in France, have shown that vibrations from raindrops can generate enough energy to operate certain low power wireless sensors. The findings could help improve networks of wireless sensors that measure conditions like temperature, pressure, or the presence of pollutants. These networks provide early warning systems for dangerous air [...]
Written on May 7th, 2009 at 2:44 pm by kirsty
I’ve just found a great online lecture with Leah Buechley in conjunction with the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). The lecture runs at just over an hour. Computational textile researchers weave, solder and sew electronics into cloth to build soft, flexible and wearable computers. Computational textiles or “e-textiles” is a young [...]
Written on May 5th, 2009 at 12:10 pm by kirsty
Using conventional screen printing techniques Dai Nippon Printing in Japan have developed a way of using light emitting inks that can be printed on a range of different surfaces, including paper and fabric. The ink works with a lumniescent get which emits bright light when a voltage is applied to it. The technique generates pixels [...]
Written on May 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am by kirsty
UK based company Polymertronics are developing band aids incorporating light-emitting diodes that can be used to treat skin cancer in combination with light-sensitive drugs. The band aids contain organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and when used in conjunction with light-sensitive drugs (which are applied to the skin as a cream) the light activates the drugs, destroying the [...]
Written on May 13th, 2009 at 2:03 pm by kirsty
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