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Wind-Sensitive LED Dandelion Dress Is Made For Pretty Night Fairies

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:40:00 +0000

I like this dress embroidered with dandelion lights. Called Flare, it was created by designer Stijn Ossevoort. The LED flowers glow up gently when the wind or your breath touches them, causing much swooning and sighing in the process.

Less spectacular than the Galaxy Dress, but classier. [Fasioningtech via Bornrich]

Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs

Rosa Golijan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:20:00 +0000

24,000 full-colour, super-thin LEDs, 4000 Swarovski crystals and enough iPod batteries to keep everything glowing for about an hour. This picture doesn’t do the Galaxy Dress justice, but the video comes close.

This gorgeous thing was designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz and they say that it’s the “the largest wearable display in the world”. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I do know that I wanted to cry when I read that the dress went straight from the sewing room to the museum mannequin, without ever being worn by a real woman. [Wired]

The Fashion Icons Of Wearable Computing

Rosa Golijan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:40:00 +0000

I was wondering what Aimee Mullins was running from, and now I suspect that it might’ve been these fellows. I’m sure they’re great people, being a part of MIT’s Wearable Computing team and all, but I would run too.

You can click on the picture for a closer look at those six studs.

Photo by Wear Cam

Vitruvian Voltron

Mark Wilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0000

If only Leonardo da Vinci had 1980s cartoons as his muse, it would be Voltron representing Man’s innate tie to geometry and architecture. Live in that better world by purchasing this $US18 t-shirt or sniffing more Crayola. [ThinkGeek via RedFerret]

Space Invaders Autopsy T-Shirt

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Mark showed you how Space Invaders really look like from the outside. Now it’s time to get the scalpel and look for the three stomachs. For $US18, you can play doctor too. [Threadless via Likecool]

MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads And More

Dan Nosowitz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway’s premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT’s Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out.

A lot of this stuff is just playful, so some of the clothes don’t need to be too polished — but I love that electronic wallpaper. Down with light switches, I say! [Fairytale Fashion]

Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth The Inconvenience

Mark Wilson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:28 +0000

Ignore the site’s lame hip hop and its general theme of trying too hard, because these nu pop watches by designer Pascal Mouawad and musician Jermaine Dupri are pretty snazzy in their own right. $US145. [nupop via Whollysblog via bookofjoe]

What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt)

Mark Wilson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0000

All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. But really they’re men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $US18. [Threadless via FashionablyGeek]

LED Eyelashes Are The Next Stage In Woman’s Self-Torturing Race

Mark Wilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Designer Soomi Park is a betrayer of her own sex. She could very well start a trend with these LED eyelashes, forcing women everywhere to painfully affix electrodes to their faces, blinding themselves with each eye-smile. (See the video!)

But we’ll admit it — this techno-barbarism is strangely hypnotic. [Soomi Park via fashioningtechnology via Valleywag]

Ecko Star Wars Watches, If You’re Not Fett Up Yet

Mark Wilson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:40:00 +0000

We can only imagine how much money there is to be made on a $US100 geek hoodies, which probably why Marc Ecko, teamed with Timex, is looking to release a line of Star Wars watches next.

From the Eck-man himself:

These are some teasers of my new watch collection. The range is inspired by Star Wars. A mixture of metals, rubbers and nylons. My amazing partners at Timex- completely rocked these. Yes…they feature “indiglo”…sounds…and other technologies. From Boba to R2…Stormtroopers to Vader…

There’s no pricing information at the moment, but the Timex/Ecko mashups will be around this holiday season. You know, so you can buy them and stuff. [Ecko via aBlogtoRead via OhGizmo!]