Collaborate Disseminate
Yuly Fuentes-Medel hopes to communicate the value of science across disciplines, cultures, and peoples. Continue reading This Neuroscientist Brings ‘Research to the Runway’ With STEM-Inspired Fashion
An underappreciated facet of the maker movement is wearable technology. For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking all about wearable and fashion tech. This includes motors, lighting, biofeedback, and one significantly overlooked aspect of wearables, washability.
For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re sitting down with Kathryn Blair and Shannon Hoover to talk about the workability and washability of fashion tech. Over the last decade or so, wearable tech has become ever more popular, and these advances in the science aren’t just limited to amazing outfits lined with hundreds of Neopixels. Now, we’re dealing with biofeedback, clothing that …read more
Continue reading Friday Hack Chat: Fashion! (Turn To The Left)
Andras Forgacs co-founded Modern Meadow to revolutionize the materials we wear everyday. Continue reading This Entrepreneur Is Growing Organic Leather Without the Cows
Andras Forgacs co-founded Modern Meadow to revolutionize the materials we wear everyday. Continue reading This Entrepreneur Is Growing Organic Leather Without the Cows
Felice Torrisi’s circuits printed on cloth are the future of fashion. Continue reading This Graphene Researcher Is Making Computers You Can Wear
Shoes are some of the most complex pieces of equipment you can buy. There’s multiple materials ranging from foam to weird polyesters in a simple sneaker, and if you dig into shoes for biking, you’ll find some carbon fiber. All these layers are glued together, stitched, and assembled into a functional piece of exercise equipment, with multiple SKUs for each size. It’s really amazing.
Accordingly, [marcs] created N+ Open Bike Shoe Platform, the purpose of which is to create open source, customizable, and repairable shoe platform based on 3D printing, though with other techniques like rubber molding and sewing fabric …read more
The new website that gets working in InfoSec doesn’t mean you can’t be stylish. Continue reading ‘VanitySec’ Is Where Hackers Get Fashion Tips
Researchers from MIT and Stanford are taking the ‘person’ in ‘personal assistant’ to mean something more literal with these robots that scurry around on the user’s clothing.
Project Kino — inspired by living jewelry — are robotic accessories that use magnetic gripping wheels on both sides of the clothing to move about. For now they fill a mostly aesthetic function, creating kinetic accents to one’s attire, but one day they might be able to provide more interactive functionality. They could act as a phone’s mic, adjust clothing to suit the weather, function as high-visibility wear for cyclists or joggers, as …read more
Continue reading Project Kino: Robotic Jewelry And Tech Accessory
We love seeing a thing get used effectively for other than its intended purpose, and this DIY LED Earrings project is a great example. [IdunnGoddess] liked the idea of making light-up LED earrings powered by a small coin cell, but an enclosure and power connection for the battery were sticking points. The solution? A googly eye after a few minor modifications turned out to be perfect.
A googly eye resembles a thin, flat, hollow plastic bulb. Choose one that’s just a bit bigger than the coin cell, and cut a slot in one end and a small hole in the …read more
Continue reading Clever Battery Holder Hack Makes Brilliant Earrings
Companies face high fines for not properly labeling photos of models that were altered with Photoshop. Continue reading France Is Fighting Photoshopped Fashion. Sort of.
