Equaliser Headphones - There will be LEDs on the headset and they flash like equalisers when music is playing through the headphones.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Project Two Concept Ideas
Glowing Headband - The LEDs react to a light sensor, so that whenever there is low light, the LEDs will pulsate bright colours. When there is lots of light, the LEDs will glow dimmer lights.
Equaliser Headphones - There will be LEDs on the headset and they flash like equalisers when music is playing through the headphones.
Equaliser Headphones - There will be LEDs on the headset and they flash like equalisers when music is playing through the headphones.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Bluetooth Watches
This watch is a useful device which will detect your phone from up to 10 meters away. It is a bluetooth device that displays the caller ID and vibrates as your phone is ringing or when you receive an SMS. You can also accept or reject calls with it and has many other features too. It is a very handy piece of technology for if you leave your phone in another room or out of site.
More info here: http://www.gizmag.com/sony-ericsson-bluetooth-watches-women/10264/
‘Tele Scouter’ retinal-display translation glasses
This is a pretty nifty idea. The prototype device called a “Tele Scouter” translates the foreign language being spoken by a partner and projects the translation onto a tiny retinal display. When projected to the retina, the message appears as if it was displayed from 1 meter away.
More info here: http://www.gizmag.com/nec-tele-scouter/13227/
LED Tattoos
I found this to be a really fascinating piece of technology. It is an LED tattoo, which is made of a thin film of silk on which silicon transistors about one millimeter long and 250 nanometers thick are placed. The silk holds the electronics in place and conforms to the biological tissue when implanted inside the body and wetted with saline. The silk substrates are then completely broken down by the body into harmless by-products. Because they are just nanometers thick, the thin silicon circuits left behind don’t cause irritation.
Illuminated tattoos! That sounds really cool!
More info here: http://www.gizmag.com/implantable-electronics/13334/
Japanese Wrist Phone
Japanese phone maker KDDI has a new phone which is rather interesting. It basically monitors your movements and can tell when you're slacking off. The phone is worn on your wrist and uses an accelerometer to check your movements and compares them to the information stored on a server, which can then identify what you are doing.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Life Dress Presentation
Elizabeth Fuller is a university student at New York University, who is exploring wearable technology, web development and user interface. During her final year, she developed a project called the Life Dress, which is a dress that has LED lights which run on the Game of Life algorithm by created by a mathematician called John Conway.
I have chosen to present her Life Dress project to the class because I thought it looked really interesting and I really liked the design. It was recently presented at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Show in New York, in December 2009, where it received lots of positive reviews.
This dress consists of 3 inch tiles, each made of dragon skin silicon and are sewn together in a grid like formation. Embedded within each tile is an LED light, which glows through the translucent material. The form and light patterns of the dress was inspired by John Conway’s Game of Life algorithm, which determines whether each panel is either alive, which indicates the LEDs to turn on, or dead, indicating for the LEDs to turn off. If the cells in the game are all alone or if there are too many clumped together, they would die. Fuller relates this idea to people and how they should find the right level of interaction between the people in their lives in order to live a good life, thus calling her project the Life Dress. The constant changing of the light patterns also relates to our lives in the sense that our lives are also constantly changing and unpredictable. The Life Dress is a representation of our lives.
Fuller uses these simple rules to create an interesting and dynamic light show on the dress, which is a remapping of the 2D grid from the algorithm. The light of the LEDs is diffused by the tiles of dragon skin that the LEDs are embedded in, creating an aesthetically pleasing look. However, the dress is also slightly transparent due to the materials that she has used, which means that it has the potential for indecent exposure if one were to wear it with nothing underneath.
Although the use of silicon tiles might limit the wearability of this dress, her idea is a great concept, which could be further developed to create a garment with more conventional materials. This dress is still a prototype, and Fuller is currently working on creating a 2.0 version.
For more information on the process of this project, go to Elizabeth Fuller's blog here.
I have chosen to present her Life Dress project to the class because I thought it looked really interesting and I really liked the design. It was recently presented at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Show in New York, in December 2009, where it received lots of positive reviews.
This dress consists of 3 inch tiles, each made of dragon skin silicon and are sewn together in a grid like formation. Embedded within each tile is an LED light, which glows through the translucent material. The form and light patterns of the dress was inspired by John Conway’s Game of Life algorithm, which determines whether each panel is either alive, which indicates the LEDs to turn on, or dead, indicating for the LEDs to turn off. If the cells in the game are all alone or if there are too many clumped together, they would die. Fuller relates this idea to people and how they should find the right level of interaction between the people in their lives in order to live a good life, thus calling her project the Life Dress. The constant changing of the light patterns also relates to our lives in the sense that our lives are also constantly changing and unpredictable. The Life Dress is a representation of our lives.
Fuller uses these simple rules to create an interesting and dynamic light show on the dress, which is a remapping of the 2D grid from the algorithm. The light of the LEDs is diffused by the tiles of dragon skin that the LEDs are embedded in, creating an aesthetically pleasing look. However, the dress is also slightly transparent due to the materials that she has used, which means that it has the potential for indecent exposure if one were to wear it with nothing underneath.
Although the use of silicon tiles might limit the wearability of this dress, her idea is a great concept, which could be further developed to create a garment with more conventional materials. This dress is still a prototype, and Fuller is currently working on creating a 2.0 version.
For more information on the process of this project, go to Elizabeth Fuller's blog here.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
"Life Dress" By Elizabeth Fuller
Image Source: http://www.itp.efuller.net/images/_10spring/l_100124_2.jpg
Elizabeth Fuller is a university student at New York University, who is exploring wearable technology, web development and user interface.
I have chosen to present her Life Dress project to the class because I thought it looked really interesting and I really liked the design. It is made of dragon skin silicon tiles, which are sewn together, with LED lights within each tile, and the dress' light pattern changes according to the algorithm of John Conway's 'Game of Life.' The algorithm is a simple set of rules that determined weather each cell in a grid is either alive (on) or dead (off). All of the light patterns are powered by an arduino. The tiles form a grid and each tile lights up according to the rules of the algorithm.
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