well not really wearable - but related - the wave pillow - which lets a surfer know whether or not that 5am dawn patrol is worth it before getting up and out of bed. the pillow is connected to the internet and a surfer-chosen buoy reading on the internet. a motor embedded in the pillow moves in intensity depending on the swell report.
{via coin-operated}
part II of horizon zero’s issue 16 : WEAR is out! my article, Between the Skin and the Garden: New Modes of Interaction in the Wearable Data Environment is online, as well as Anne Galloway’s interview with Maggie Orth of International Fashion Machines.
a couple years ago i worked on two projects started in October 2002, Inside/Outside, and Urban Chameleon, both of which were presented in 2003 at different venues. (Inside/Outside at Ubicomp 2003, e-culture fair 2003, FEED 2004, and ISEA 2004 - Urban Chameleon at the Digital Hub 2003) The projects look at personally invested urban environmental monitoring.
Inside/Outside bags by Katherine Moriwaki - the bag on the left monitors air quality. the bag on the right monitors environmental noise.
some very rough on the fly notes on Erkki Huhtamo’s talk:
Title: Pockets of Plenty: An Archaeology of Mobile Media
media archaeology - secret histories, dig beyond historical narratives, motivated history , nondeterministic history, cyclical, returning over time.
premises of media archaeology - (more…)
some more touch and hug related wearables:
UPDATE: an image of Joey\’s intimate memory skirt - she showed this at Banff. the documentation for this project can be found at the XS Labs website.
at Banff, Joey Berzowska showed a skirt that illuminated small embedded LEDs when certain panels were groped. the LEDs fade in relation to how long the panel was touched, representing a history of how often recently a person was groped.
and here at ISEA, Kelly Dobson exhibited a garment which inflates when “hugged” through actual physical contact or via mobile phone.
both projects have some commonalities with other projects i’ve blogged here before, such as alison lewis‘ closer, and francesca rosella and rikako sakai’s F+R hugs, and despina’s hug jackets.
hotspot bloom by karen lee
at spectropolis in new york city karen lee is showing hotspot bloom a wearable wifi detector. this sort of reminds me of wifi sense, by milena iossifova (UPDATE: and ahmi wolf) which was part of the demo program of ubicomp 2003. both projects display the presence of wifi nodes as a wearable, light illuminated accessory.
jet lagged and crazy. the isea cruise just keeps bumping all hours of the night! my talk is tomorrow, but i’m still wired after having napped earlier… we’ll be back in tallin in just a few hours.
in tallinn now, but getting on a ferry to helsinki tomorrow…
we’ve just concluded with day two of the wearable design workshop at banff. it’s been great with so many different backgrounds and approaches. today some of the attendees shared their techniques - some pics below:
aissa dionne, textile designer, shares her work