Why should a machine that provides life to humans die after three days? Looking into ways to bring 'dead' technology back to life. Dissecting insulin pumps - - reusing / recycling / re-purposing / reincarnating Prototype: Recycled insulin pumps as LED casings hooked up to a sound sensor and made...
Try Me is a wearable that measures the time a hug lasts and posts it to Twitter. I saw this at a show, but it wasn't fully functioning. I'm not sure if Twitter was the right addition to this wearable but I think its lovely to create something that gets...
Users enter their preferences and personality traits into a computer program and upload the information to a small, portable device. The user then plugs the device into a shirt or handbag wired with small LED lights incorporated into the design. When users with similar preferences come within 30 feet of...
The project name is ‘HeartCycle‘ and aims to create a ‘patient loop’ that gives patients continuous feedback on their state of health, their progress towards achieving health status milestones, plus motivational tips and suggestions for a healthy lifestyle and diet. The HeartCycle project, for which Philips Research is acting as...
"Safe sex never looked so good" Link
Yes please! Xerox has developed a silver ink that can be used to print electronic circuits on fabrics, films, and materials other than boards. Where silicon is the current standard for circuitry boards, the new ink allows electronic components to be integrated into apparel and flexible surfaces. Link to Xerox's...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20060119/FEATURES/601190686?Title=-Paws-for-Patriots-helps-injured-vets
This blog is an amazing resource for wearable tech projects http://www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/
Visitors to the Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex will see a highly interesting prototype called ‘Transitional Stripes‘, a technology exploration into color changing textiles. The ‘Transitional Stripes‘ are the result of an AHRC funded project by Robert M...
What? http://ingmanndesign.com/virtual-insulin-pump-hotties/
Fun fact: Google image search for 'injection sites' is unexpectedly entertaining.
http://www.katieeary.co.uk/
“Fashion-able” was a story that illustrated the pages of style magazine Dazed and Confused, where models with physical disabilities are the face of luxury fashion, looking beautiful and powerful clad in designer clothes.
Challenges the relationship between this intimate piece of technology and its wearer. The role a watch plays in its wearer's self-image -- how glancing at a watch hundreds of times every day might influence the wearer. http://www.mr-jones.org/watches
http://foursquare.com/ Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello. “Foursquare is more of the people that I actually hang out with and want to socialize with.” NYT...
"Maybe flaws and weaknesses is what being human is all about" Human beings are unable to make something that is totally perfect and Yohji Yamamoto wants to emphasize imperfection in his work.
Girls: cigarettes are only sexy in photographs. Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner Based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Mirrors anxiety about a future with cyborgs so sophisticated that they are indistinguishable from humans.
Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions in mainstream design.
Fashion that deforms the human body. Kawakubo sees fashion as an optimistic art form, and she considers this very important in our troubled world. Well known for her deconstructive approach to fashion, creating new shapes and defying traditional pattern cutting. She has a playful approach to textile machinery, sometimes tampering...
http://www.nomylamm.com/ http://sinsinvalid.org/ < -- a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized from social discourse.
http://socialnetworkstories.com/ <-- This guy went on a roadtrip to visit all of his Facebook friends.
The society that has survived in Labrador is loosely reminiscent of the American frontier of about the 18th century. The inhabitants practice a form of fundamentalist Christianity with post-apocalyptic prohibitions. They believe that in order to follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation, they need to preserve absolute normality among...
http://www.dailycandy.com/ Someone to contact when more designs are available.
FIRST EDITION: Not-So-Hidden Disability: Building Community Through Fashionable Technology View more documents from flobotic. FINAL EDITION:
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Graphs created for selected survey questions and results: Excellent Free Graph Generator -- link Survey 1: Hidden Differences (link to Survey) Survey 2: Hidden Differences II (link to Survey) Survey 3: Social Dynamics (link to Survey) Survey 4: Self Expression (link to Survey)
-Effectiveness of Social Networking Is it an Anti-Social Network? Communities Developed in Real Life Shame associated with Social Networking -Role of Social Networking Within: Hidden Sub-Culture Groups Those With Hidden Disability Help or Hinder Affect Health? Positive/Negative -Real Life Communities How are they built? How are they established? Non-verbal communication...
Working thesis title: Not-So-Hidden Disability: Building Community Through Fashion Concept: People with a hidden disability, such as Type 1 Diabetes, are encouraged to keep their differences to themselves out of fear that they will be discriminated against. This fear of discrimination causes many psychological issues in those living with hidden...
Characters (man/machine) from comic books (with insecurity over visible vs. invisible identity) incorporated into accessory line?
Shame, fear, acceptance, creativity, well-being. Embrace weakness and it will turn into strength. What role does fashion play in alleviating shame, demanding acceptance? People who have hidden differences -- how do they make those differences public? why? why not? Homosexual fashion/appearance -- where did it come from? how does it...
FOUND: Diabetes Competition What's diabetes like to live with? Make a movie. September 24, 2009 | 4:29 pm If you have diabetes and are a dab hand with a video camera, here's a contest you may want to enter. The nonprofit Diabetes Hands Foundation has announced a "Making Sense of Diabetes"...
Bayer introduces Contour USB glucose meter by Donald Melanson posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 8:11PM We may not yet have nanosensors or high-tech contact lenses to monitor glucose levels, but there are still plenty of gadgets out there to help diabetics, and Bayer has now introduced another first with its...
Precedents: Health Zero – Akshay Mohan (2004) PDF I need you to need me – Elim Cheng (2009) Website The Smoking Jacket -- Fiona Carswell (2007) Review Psychohaptics: A Series Of Wearables to Support Psychotherapy --Tangible Media Group, MIT (2006) PDF FTS, Facade of the Synthetic -- Eyebeam Atelier (2005)...
I saw this cool project at ITP when I attended their FashionCampNYC a week ago. Its a project by Elim Cheng called I need you to need me. She created objects that required a very emotional interaction in order to function. I think this could be a precedent to some...
Wireless sensors placed on (or even under) a patient's skin to create "medical body area networks" (MBANs) that provide doctors with real-time info about their patients. An MBAN would help hospitals and healthcare clinics better keep tabs on important health-related information, including a patient's temperature, pulse, blood glucose level, blood...
I attended a portion of FashionCampNY this morning/afternoon and had a great time! Bonnie Sandy, fashion professional, gave me and a couple new friends some GREAT business advice for us indie designers out there. I also learned how to use a sewing machine! Danielle Fotopoulus shows us how to re-fashion...
Meet RIBA, the robot nurse bear. The cheery-looking machine has long, multi-jointed arms embedded with an array of tactile sensors that help it optimize the lifting and carrying of humans. For safety purposes, RIBA's entire body is covered in a soft skin molded from an advanced lightweight urethane foam developed...
Deco Pods! View more documents from flobotic.
MIT Project from 2004 by Akshay Mohan -Designs and evaluates an ambient blood glucose level visualization and feedback system for diabetes self-care and social support provided by a friend or family member of an individual with diabetes. -This thesis provides insight into using technology to enable an individual to leverage...