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Designer QR Codes

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kate
on April 23, 2009
in Fashion and Mobile
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Mostly promotional, this “designer QR code” supposedly works just like the regular bar-code looking QR codes that are all over certain parts of the world and with the occasional appearances in the States.

(collaboration between Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton)

Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour

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kate
on September 16, 2008
in Fashion, Lecture and Wearable Technology
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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