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Alexei Shulgin &
Aristarkh Chernyshev
The Super-i® Real Virtuality™ System
uses algorithms similar to those used in professional image processing
systems (such as Adobe Photoshop™) allowing you to view reality
through effects such as: Invert color, Matrix, Psychedelic colors, Emboss,
Inverted emboss, and Line-through. The heart of Super-i®
is a microchip developed by the company that allows real-time video signal
processing and effects. Other system components include a video camera
with a "human" angle of view and a pair of high quality micro-displays.
The system is assembled inside a pair of lightweight goggles and powered
by standard AA batteries. The user can explore altered reality, easily
and unencumbered. The Super-i® can also
be connected to any video source (DVD-player, computer, game console,
etc.) for more typical entertainment, viewed as if there's a giant screen
in front of a viewer.
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Fossil, Inc., a leading innovator of watch design and development, has
launched the world's first Palm Powered© watch. The Wrist
PDA™ with Palm OS™ provides a portable and stylish
way to organize personal information. Customizable watch faces allow consumers
to change their watch to suit individual style, while 8 MB of memory supplies
storage for addresses, appointments, memos, third-party Palm OS™
applications and more. Additional features include a high density 160
x 160 pixel grayscale LCD with touch screen and backlight, a stylus cleverly
integrated into the watch buckle, one-handed navigation, the ability to
beam data to another Palm Powered© device via the Infrared Port,
USB HotSync™ support, and a lithium-ion rechargeable battery that
lasts approximately 3-4 days. The FOSSIL branded product, with stainless
steel case and black leather strap, is priced at $249.00 USD. One FOSSIL
Wrist PDA™ will be raffled off during
the SIGGRAPH week in the Guerilla Studio.
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The eMagin Z800 3D Visor is a mobile gaming
and entertainment accessory that delivers an immersive 3D computing experience.
Users surround themselves with visual data: gamers can play "inside
the action" and PC users can work in a borderless environment. Two
high-contrast eMagin SVGA 3D OLED microdisplays deliver fluid full-motion
video in more than 16.7 million colors. A highly responsive head-tracker
drives the experience and provides a full 360-degree view. eMagin's specially
developed optics deliver an image equivalent to a 105-inch movie screen
viewed at 12 feet.
Ultra-small mobile PCs can run full-featured operating systems and office
applications using the eMagin eGlass. OLED
microdisplays provide a full-color, high-contrast SVGA display for mobile
computing, and accommodate a greater range of pupil movement to make extended
data viewing easier. These near-eye display systems allow complete data
privacy in the most public environments. The eGlass
monitor even draws power through the USB port, saving on batteries.
The new helmet-mounted Liteye 500 can be
used as a standard head mounted display or for augmented reality applications,
with user-selectable see-through capability. Match a map to the road,
a landmark's photo to the landmark itself, or overlay a drawing on the
actual hardware. It's a high-performance, rugged package based on patented
optics and an eMagin SVGA+ OLED microdisplay.
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Total Fire Group
Total Fire Group's “Fire
Warrior Micro Thermal Camera” lets firefighters see through
smoke and darkness to locate hot spots, perform search and rescue, and
find their way to safety. Compact, power-efficient, and lightweight, it
employs a state-of-art bolometer to collect critical information and displays
it through a hands-free module. The camera runs up to four hours on AA
batteries, and its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display starts
delivering data on startup, even at temperatures as low as -40°C.
It can take the heat, too, continuing to function and deliver vital information
at temperatures up to 85°C (185°F!)
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Gauri Nanda
MIT Media Lab
Handbags that warn you if you're about to leave the house without your
wallet or if you'll need an umbrella for the day, and scarves that yell
at their fellow handbag if they're about to be left behind on the subway,
are all made possible by building with these fabric-based Lego-like blocks.
Each of many modular, specialized, functional units of the Accessorizing
with Networks project can be added in or taken away from the accessories
as needed. For example, when running quick errands in the morning you
might not include either of the modules that make your purse light up
when it's opened in the dark or when your cell phone rings, but you can
add those back when you might need them at night.
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Tina Gonsalves and Tom Donaldson
“Medulla Intimata” is video-responsive
jewelry created by internationally recognized video artist Gonsalvez and
British engineer, inventor, and artist Donaldson. The project introduces
a new form of non-verbal communication: a real-time generated video stream
reflecting and commenting upon your conversations. The source video is
drawn from a database of self-portrait video clips stylized to reflect
various moods, and video sequences are selected by software that monitors
the tone and intonation of the wearer’s voice. Then the video is
broadcast to the jewelry using Wi-Fi technology. Real time effects, pacing
and transitions are used to amplify or subvert the social moment, exploring
how video can be made more intimate by embedding it in objects that have
rich symbolic and cultural associations. "Medulla
Intimata" has been supported by The Australia Arts Council,
Arts Queensland, IAMAS, Artsway and co-produced with the Banff New Media
Institute.
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Sara Diamond, Di Mainstone, &
The Am-I-Able Design Team
Company Keeper has an antidote for every
social inadequacy one may encounter in daily life. Once installed, its
occupant enjoys the perpetual company of a wise, humorous and absurd friend,
always ready with a custom cranial concerto, capable of neutralizing the
occupant's nervous disposition. The wearer's mood is assessed by his/her
body language (calculated with embedded touch sensors and an accelerometer
in a hanging beaded tassel) and the level of sound in the environment
(measured with a microphone). When moods such as wrath, awkwardness, and
claustrophobia are detected, an antidotal soundscape is played through
headphones in the hood. Emotional Ties takes its inspiration from the
subtleties of the unsaid word. Male and female body language (preening)
is monitored through strategically placed touch sensors inserted into
the garments. Once certain body postures are detected, an audiovisual
display is triggered on the other's garment. For example, if the male
adjusts his tie or a female smoothes the fabric around her waist, an LED
animation and melody play on the other's garment.
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Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz
The Skirteleon and the KineticDress
belong to the Transfor-Me collection and address the desire of many people
to transform themselves over the course the day. The Skirteleon
skirt changes color and pattern according to the wearer's activities and
mood: CuteCircuit engineered a new laminated fabric that changes color
'on-demand'. The Skirteleon might be blue
in the morning when the wearer is at work, show a pattern with funny animal
characters when the wearer is with friends, and then transform once more
in the evening, showing a geometric, elegant Japanese pattern. The Victorian
inspired KineticDress changes pattern when
the wearer interacts with others or walks. The algorithm is designed to
follow the pace of the wearer: a still pose when sitting alone shows a
black dress, then when the wearer starts moving and interacting with others
the dress slowly lights up with an animated pattern of blue-circles that
creates a halo around the wearer. F+R Hugs is a shirt with embedded sensors
that measure the strength of touch, skin warmth and heartbeat of one wearer,
and sends the physical sensation of a hug across mobile telecommunication
networks to actuators in the shirt of another wearer. Hugs could also
be exchanged between people running the Hug Software in their mobile phones
and the person wearing the Hug Shirt.
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Akira Wakita
The concept behind Wearable Synthesis is
that modular clothing pieces can use input and output sensors, actuators
and processors to communicate various signals, while preserving fashion's
aesthetics. In one prototype, lights within an elegant skirt's pleats
change color according to the user's body temperature, and also pulsate
according to the pace at which the wearer walks. Lights on the back of
a matching jacket also color shift in reaction to body temperature, and
lights within the jacket project out when it is unzippered Several garments
can be layered and will communicate amongst themselves, enabling a color-coordinated
fashion statement. Wearable Synthesis also
allows for ambient communication: one prototype garment lights up when
its infrared sensors detects someone nearby wearing another prototype
from the set.
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Wearable Computing Fashion Group
WIN's 'AwareWear'
concepts envision computers that are an integral part of our every day
outfit, always operational and equipped to assist us in dealing with a
wide range of situations:
Dog@watch Kids-wear helps kids express their
needs and feelings to their parents, allowing them to discover the world
safely. Using Dog@watch, a kid can interactively
express and share feelings such as 'sad', 'happy', 'sleepy', 'hungry',
'sorry', 'have a question', and 'want to talk'. Combined with GPS data
and sensor alarm functions embedded in the belt of the watch, Dog@watch
can be used to monitor and ensure the security of a child.
Report-the-world Report-wear is primarily
intended for professional reporters. Its trench coat styling and ample
features support the modern nomadic life style. Ten cameras are attached
to the coat to capture the surrounding environment: the wearer can choose
any image to view in the head mounted display simply by selecting it with
a dial attached to the coat. A ring-shaped speaker worn on the finger
receives location-based audio data to assist with navigation.
The e-Coaching Sports-wear prototype is
designed for real-time health/exercise monitoring and personal coaching.
Based on multiple readings obtained by individual sensors embedded in
the outfit and sports watch (heart rate, temperature, UV, and acceleration),
the system generates appropriate coaching messages such as “Let's
warm up for 10 minutes' or 'Watch your motion, keep it steady'.
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Atau Tanaka @ Sony
CSL Paris and
Christine Satchell @ SmartInternet Technology CRC
Swarm is a community shared and avatar-driven
mobile music device, featuring Mobile
Social Music Software. The system is an on-body family of devices
making a personal-area-network for gesture recognition and ad-hoc shared
music listening. The “sensor subsystem” detects wearers' gestures
while they listen to music. “The Malleable Music Terminal”
is a paperback-book sized device with 1GHz processor and touchscreen that
displays any friends from the user's buddy list within ad-hoc wireless
range. These are the SWARM avatars: friends
log into the system to listen and sculpt a common stream of music together.
The system uses miniaturized force sensing resistors, accelerometers,
and gyroscopes to pick up grip pressure and device movement as the user
swings the device and taps along to the music.
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Jenny Tillotson
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
'Scent Whisper' is a jewelry set that dispenses
fragrances in response to a humidity sensor. The two brooches are inspired
by spiders and the defense mechanism in bombardier beetles. This project
uses wireless technology to link a remote sensor (a spider) with a fragrance-dispensing
unit (a beetle). The wearer of the spider whispers a message into it,
to be 'scent by a wireless web' to the beetle, worn by an admirer: the
spider's humidity sensor records the temperature of the breath and releases
scent from the beetle accordingly. The 'Smart
Second Skin' dress mimics the human body, in particular the circulation
and nervous systems, senses and scent glands. The dress responds to human
emotions with fragrances that are diffused depending on the moods of the
wearer. The dress can send aromatic 'messages,' and also promotes the
wearer's wellbeing through olfaction stimulation: to reduce stress, transform
negative moods, aid sleep, boost confidence, and expand the imagination.
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Elise Co @ mintymonkey
and
Nikita Pashenkov @ Ratstar Labs
UFOS are sneakers modified to include an
illuminated rear 'bumper.' Embedded circuitry senses each foot's motion
in 3-D space, and generates a pulsing gradient of glowing color that shifts
with each movement. Each wearer will have a unique pattern of colors based
on their individual stride. Lumiloop is a
modular system of program and display panels that can be chained together
to form a reactive bracelet. Each display module features a small LED
matrix, dynamically driven by an interchangeable program module. The program
modules hold different display programs and include varying sensors for
the bracelet to respond to: in one, an accelerometer interprets wrist
gestures and generates illuminated patterns in response.
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Interaction Design Ivrea
The prototype Plexiglass shoes in the Reverie Engines collection include
Electric Cinderella (designed for a woman
who wants to intimidate intimadators) and The Beauty
& the Beast (designed for an emotive woman who no longer wants
to be a victim). With a single use stun gun embedded in the toe of one,
and an audible alarm system activated by stamping the feet embedded in
the other, these 'enchanted wearables' call up the woman's desire for
empowerment and control over situations in her life.
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Luisa Paraguai Donati
The project 'vestis: affective bodies' attempts
to create a greater understanding of personal spaces. This first prototype
has a structure of four tubular hoops circling the wearer's body, that
expand and shrink independently. These telescoping movements create different
body contours throughout the interaction between participants and the
wearer, shrinking the hoops when the wearer comes closer to others, and
expanding them when she moves away. A microcontroller defines these movements
based on input from embedded proximity sensors. The project visually demonstrates
an individual's physical comfort zone, and plays in a poetic way with
the visual and tactile experience of embodied spaces, evoking participant
engagement in a negotiation of personal space.
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Oakley
OAKLEY THUMP™ is the
world's first digital music eyewear: high-performance optics forged with
an integrated, state-of-the-art digital audio engine to listen to music
virtually anywhere. OAKLEY THUMP comes in
six color combinations and two types: 256 MB and 512 MB versions. A High-Speed
USB connection transfers music quickly and easily. The eyewear stores
about 8 hours of music, delivered without cables or wires, and weighs
only 1.8 ounces (52 grams) - lighter than an empty CD case. Durable, solid-state
memory provides skip-free music, and with no hard disk to drain power
the internal rechargeable battery lasts up to six hours.
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Simon Fraser University
<exhale: breath between bodies> is
a new collection of body area networked garments. Building on last year's
collection of responsive skirts with muscle sensors embedded in garter
belts, this year they feature sensuous networked skirts and sleeves linked
with elastic breast-bands that listen to the wearer's breath. Made of
natural silk & organza fibers in earthy and vibrant tones, <exhale>
creates a shared public space of breath, revealing sensation, sound and
light, exploring the notion of intimacy accessed through physiological
data. <exhale> is also being featured
in the Siggraph 2005 Emerging Technologies exhibition, as an installation
that utilizes the collective breath of participants to actuate small fans
and vibrators embedded with the linings of evocative skirts. If viewers
negotiate a shared group breath, the skirts glow with light that palpates
in rhythm with it.
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Isabel C. Valverde @ UC
Irvine and
Victor B. Zordan @ UC Riverside
IN TOUCH - Interactive Performance Costuming
is a novel pair of garments which are augmented with sensors and wireless
transmitters that communicate with a remote computer to affect audio,
visual, and/or light channels. Performance artists can interactively alter
the look and sound of their performance through mutual contact: by making
and breaking contact, they can remotely change visual and audio output
in real time. IN TOUCH experiments with developing modes of physical-digital
immersion and mediatized synesthesia via touch-based interfaces, inducing
unstable states of awareness where physicality and virtuality can simultaneously
co-exist.
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies/Skydeas: Seams
Skydeaminds, in conjunction with SmartLab, London, will showcase Skydeaminds
Techno-kids Wear, a line of children's clothes using technology
to enhance safety and comfort. Inspired by Victorian pinafores and petticoats,
these clothes reduce excess to essence, and include a high tech core.
Location tracking and bio monitoring are designed as part of the garments:
Body Media's Sensewear Pro Armband accompanies
RFID technology to help keep kids of the future connected to vital bases
of safety in a modern world fraught with potential dangers and extremes.
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Dr. Lizbeth Goodman
The SMARTlab Centre, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design
SafetyNET/SMARTlab with Bodkin Designs, Gayil Nalls, BBC & UCD present the Undercoverwire Corset & Bodice, hiding a spatial sensing system that anybody can access and use, designed to help a woman in need find a safe space in her physical world without setting off alarms. Corset and Bodice with SMARTglove (hiding wires and camoflauging the handheld screen) by Tara and Cathie Mooney of Bodkin Designs Dublin, with bespoke JET wifi/Bluetooth/gprs-mobile enabled rescue & escape system by Jose Marinez.
Also on show is the Pendant Flacon by Gayil Nalls (shown, left), holding the world social sculpture World Sensorium scent, a mix of the scent imprints of 230 countries statically formulated as one signature scent. The SafetyWEAR line is designed for two purposes: to promote the project's work with smart fashions that women of all ages, sizes and backgrounds can comfortably wear; and to provide wearable technology tools and triggers to connect to the SafetyNET online, without wearers being noticeable when requesting help. SafetyNET is a global cyber cafe project that uses the power of new technologies to help stop violence against women and children, quietly linking them to information about
domestic violence through online access. The project is operating in North America, North Africa and throughout Europe. First phase installations are underway in Asia and Latin America. (presentation supported by Microsoft).
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Nyx Illuminated Clothing
Los Angeles based Nyx offers a new line of jackets with illuminated text
or patterns that scroll across chest, arms, and back. Text is entered
using a Palm Pilot device and beamed to the jacket display screens. A
cell phone enabled Palm Pilot allows text messages, emails, and internet
information to be downloaded right to the jacket. The screens are thin,
flexible, and waterproof, so the jackets are lightweight and washable.
They are powered by four rechargeable AA batteries stored in one pocket,
which last up to eight hours. An embedded microphone provides a sound
responsive function: environmental sounds can trigger various patterns
that dance to the beat of the music. Jackets are expected to retail for
a couple of hundred dollars sometime early next year. Other applications
for the new technology are anticipated in the safety lighting, personal
advertising, and entertainment industries.
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Laura Bardier
PAN
Sages is an elegant leather necklace enriched
with a point of light as a jewel. It has three component layers: against
the skin is enzymatic leather, in the middle is an electronic circuit,
with an outer layer of translucent raw leather. The simple circuit includes
a low-voltage yellow LED and a flat rechargeable battery. The metallic
fastening also plays the role of switch: the LED turns on when Sages is
worn, and turns off otherwise. The light enriches Sages
with the values that it symbolizes: from intellectual enlightenment to
emotional purity. Sages could be a recognition
element for those who belong to the cyber-communities, fusing the ancient
strength of the ornament with the omnipresent electronics of contemporary
life.
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Femtechs are America's greatest weapon
in the War Against Ravers, utilizing genetically altered firefly and chameleon
DNA coupled with Mutel Obtanium processors for real-time glowing paisley
pattern generation. Femtechs have a stunning
graphical user interface and built in wireless connection to the galaxy
wide web. Our industry standard processor bus and advanced open source
operating system provide seamless connectivity and integration of disparate
software into a common easy to use system that also supports field upgrades
while preserving investments in legacy hardware. Standard Femtechs
are equipped with tactical image targeting systems and Amazonian support
suspension that will leave opposing forces begging to be assimilated.
The Femtechs have an unprecedented ability
to convert civilians into rockstars. Mutech Corp. Where Technology Grows.
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Janet Hansen and Brett Spivey
New work incorporates light sources beneath furs and sheer fabrics, and
matches LED arrangement to the textile patterns. White
corset dress consists of a corset top and ruffled skirt, made of
asheer white fabric with a metallic holographic print. Internal multi-colored
LED lighting illuminates the corset in a random twinkling pattern. Silver
corset dress consists of a silver corset top with diagonal quilting detail
and a straight full length silver metallic skirt. A grid of red, blue,
green, and gold LEDs is embedded in the corset, and designed to fade and
flash in a variety of patterns to suit your mood. Additional works include
Color changing bodysuit, Faux fur coat with fiber optic lighting, and
Gloves with lighted finger extensions.
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Jim Bunkelman
Galatea Productions
A little light is the perfect compliment to an outrageous outfit. Jim's
whimsical “light enhanced accessories”
have taken a slightly darker turn this year, into a realm reminiscent
of Dr. Suess meets Tim Burton. His elegant gothic collar has a flower
like quality in the way it wraps up around the head, and red LEDs at the
ends of each stalk. His fire/ice LED heart can be triggered to fade from
red to blue whenever you're feeling cold-hearted.
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Bethany Shorb
Lighted elements are contrasted with industrial materials such as rubber
and plastic, often scavanged by the artist from abandoned urban buildings.
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Jo Bangphraxay @ See-Throo
and
Craig McCullough @ Strange Attractors
Anime-inspired future wear that emphasizes rich textures, unusual material
contrasts and interesting body geometries
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DEvan Brown, Jesse Jarrell, isa gordon
Best know for biomorphic latex bodywear that is endlessly reconfigurable,
this fashion collective brings their new Binary
Interlace Dress and Lotus Dress. In
addition they bring several one off couture pieces in more tradional fabrics,
including DEvan's Brown's elegant “Stellar”,
a matched set for man and woman that seems to come from some distant time
or place. SintheteX also creates the garments and accessories worn by
Psymbiote, host of the fashion show.
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Louis Fleischauer
The designs of AMF Korsets reflect the mental oblivion of Louis Fleischauer,
who takes the skins of cows and turns them into wearable creations. Born
and raised in East Germany he is now living the American nightmare. He
declared a war on fashion 12 years ago when he first started to work with
leather. This progressive designer/sculpter/apocalyptic flesh explorer
will present Recycled Skin Suit for the Days After
Tomorrow and other corsets, skirts, face masks, and wings made
of sculpted leather. This knife proof skin suit scares off any potential
predetors that hide in the dark corners of the industrial waste land.
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EL WIRE custom made Wearable Art by Annissë.
Annissë has been a seamstress and designing fashions for over 20
years. Inspired by the spirit of Burning Man comes Annissë's EL
WIRE design line. Futuristic styles of tomorrow. From tops, skirts,
dresses and corsets. Annissë's EL WIRE
line are all powered by COOLNEON.com and run on a battery powered inverter
pack with easy belt clip attachments. Chrome 3 tier top and 2 tier skirt
with clear tubing is illuminated in White EL WIRE,
complete with clear buckle closures. Black and clear Vinyl "HEX"
dress, is decorted in Red EL WIRE with red
hologram hexagon shapes attached to the clear Vinyl side panels. Contact
Annissë to create a unique EL WIRE design
for you.
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Vanessa Bonet and Kasey McMahon
Psycho Gilrfriend is a design duo that specializes in creating unique
wearable art pieces made from unusual and appropriated materials. The
circuitry dress is aesthetic interpretation
of the inner workings of computer systems, inspired by the beauty of the
circiut board, and features a circiut board belt with LED accents.
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These exquisite stainless steel exoskeletons serve as costumes for this
unique performance troupe. The CyberFashion afterparty will feature the
complete show, on an elaborate set of custom instruments which trigger
both light and sound when played.
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