We continue our series of featured articles on smart textiles: after healing textiles and camouflage ones, discover these projects around self-expression, emotions and social relations ! Textiles : emotion and creation Iris van Herpen isContinue reading
What will be the spectator of tomorrow?
After the SubPac, the most immersive audio experience which emits low frequencies directly to your body… Here is Alert Shirt. Developed in Austria by the start-up WE:EX (Wearable Experiments), this connected jersey promises us aContinue reading
User Experience for online shops
The French digital retail is still on a growing track: +14,3% in 2015. In France, online clothing now represents more than 5,4 billion € (source: FEVAD) .In the same time, the number of online shopsContinue reading
Is your body a new connected device ?
Monitoring your walk or your eating habits, watch the way you sleep or your diabetes thanks to a bracelet, a pedometer or a connected app… The Quantified-Self is spreading in our daily lives, and raisesContinue reading
SPORTSWEAR OUTFITS OF TOMORROW
When technology helps performance The textile sector is more and more oriented towards quantified self. This trend consists of monitoring physical activities, heart beats, or calories burnt during all day, thanks to connected devices linkedContinue reading
Gla Gla Shoes, French self-ventilated shoes
Glagla International is a French company based in Nancy that works on connected clothing, with a strong focus on shoes. You might know them from Digitsoles, the world first connected soles that buzzed at CESContinue reading
New healing textiles
Intro : The pursuit of better life quality and a longer life expectancy are some of the promises enabled by the apparition of biotechnologies. What if Fashion Tech had a word on the topic? WeContinue reading
What if clothes provided an ecological solution ?
Numerous wearables have been imagined to monitor physical activities with medical, preventive or performance objectives. With Sponge Suit, Fashion Tech now focuses on environment. What if clothing could be an eco-friendly solution? After depolluting plants,Continue reading
The in-store strategy of Nike
Nike innovates on a daily basis : new personalized shoes, patents on 3D printing, collaborations with designers… But its products are not the only innovative things coming from Nike brains: the swoosh brand also takesContinue reading