Lighted shirt featured in Nike Women’s Run

June 5, 2015  |  Out There

Pauline van Dongen has introduced her newest design, “Phototrope, an illuminated running shirt.” During the recent Nike Women’s Run, her team of five runners brightened up the dark streets of Amsterdam during the nighttime 10k race. The team didn’t go unnoticed and was cheered along …
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Fabricoil™ provides dramatic façade for L.A. apartment building

May 22, 2015  |  Out There

The Vermont high-rise luxury apartments in Los Angeles are now home to a dramatic new work of art that incorporates a dual-purpose Cascade Architectural Fabricoil™ coiled wire fabric system. The system is made of interlocked strands of coiled wire formed into flexible fabric and engineered for int…
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3M showcases high visibility concept garments

May 8, 2015  |  Out There

3M with Safe Reflections Inc. have created two concept garments that showcase Eclipse™ 5721 high-brightness, large-format, reflective material. A “discrete visibility” dress and an active, winter running shirt demonstrate how reflective material can combine safety and style in a single applica…
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LED fiber research yields color-tunable textile

April 24, 2015  |  Out There

Researchers have developed thin, light-emitting fibers capable of being woven into color-tunable textiles. Huisheng Peng of Fudan University, Shanghai, and colleagues found that a fiber-shaped PLEC (polymer light-emitting electrochemical cell) could be made by coating a thin steel wire with a layer …
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Does she light up when she sees you?

April 16, 2015  |  Out There

MIT researchers unveil “Social Textile” technology to take social messaging to a new level. Current technologies are good at connecting people at a distance, but less so at connecting them within the same environment, according to student researchers at MIT. “Social Textile,” a joint project…
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Smart-shoes system designed for performance

April 10, 2015  |  Out There

No New Folk Studio Inc., a Japanese hardware startup, creates technology for artists and performers with a focus on wireless interaction and the Internet of Things (IoT). Their new endeavor is a smart-shoes system named “Orphe,” which is designed for performance that functions both as a customiz…
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Solar Shirt: the phone charger you wear

March 20, 2015  |  Out There

Created in collaboration by the Dutch independent open-innovation R&D center, Holst Centre; the nonprofit, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO); and fashion designer Pauline van Dongen, the Solar Shirt brings the worlds of high tech and high-street fashion together.…
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Does she light up when she sees you?

March 17, 2015  |  Out There

MIT researchers unveil “Social Textile” technology to take social messaging to a new level. Current technologies are good at connecting people at a distance, but less so at connecting them within the same environment, according to student researchers at MIT. “Social Textile,” a joint project…
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Feel like you’re in someone else’s shoes with a pair of “Stellvertreters”

March 6, 2015  |  Out There

What would it be like to walk in someone else’s shoes? Swiss students Lukas Gächter, Olivia Stadler and Ramon Marc of Zürcher Hochschule der Künste have developed “Stellvertreter” shoes that take this time-honored saying quite literally. Their two-component project is designed to co…
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“Solar Bytes Pavilion,” an experiment in a new architecture

February 20, 2015  |  Out There

The “Solar Bytes Pavilion” by Design Lab workshop is an experimental project that highlights a potential for architecture, where buildings are fabricated using new techniques (3D printing), incorporate smart technologies (light sensors and photovoltaics), and are powered by renewable energy sour…
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