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Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour

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Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology by Sabine Seymour

Design + Fashion + Science + Technology

Fashionable Wearables: ‘designed’ garments, accessories or jewelery that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology

Design considerations: Body, ergonomics/ wearability, functionality, technology, materials, energy, recycle

Degree of Body/Tech Integration:
Hand-held
Wearable (Garment as container)
Physically embedding
Electric/ Scientific
Implanted

Reasons for Acceleration in Wearable Tech:  processing power, minaturization, wireless tech, material science, alternative energy

History of Wearable Tech

  • 1960 Cyborg (Clyne)
  • 1966 First Wearable Computer (Thorpw & Shannon)
  • 1972 Algebraic Calculator Watch (HP)
  • 1979 Walkman (Sony)
  • 1981 Backpack-Mounted Computer to Control photographic Equipment (Mann)
  • 1987 ‘Terminator’
  • 1991 ‘Ubiquitous Computing’ (Weiser)
  • 1994 Images from headmounted display to the web (Mann)
  • 1997 Smart Clothes Fashion Show
  • 1997 First IEEE Intern: Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • 1997 Firefly Dress (Orth)
  • 2000 Airplane Dress (Chalyan)
  • 2003 Analog Jacket (Burton)
  • 2003 Luminex
  • 2005 Adidas_1
  • 2007 Nike+

“Elevate the cyborg”
fashionabletechnology.org

//ETH is the MIT of Europe