http://electricrunway.com/

Mountain Dew releases a line of wearable tech, a smartwatch that’s powered by your body, and a pair of kicks you control with your smartphone.

http://www.clausette.cc/

When the air is – relatively – pure, the alveoli mimic breathing movements and alternate between white and blue. If pollution is felt, the garment turns red to inform its wearer and the rest of the world, both on the street and on the Internet, as this data is also broadcasted live on the web.

http://www.fashioningtech.com/

In a news release last week on their blog, NASA announced the ForceShoe, designed by XSENS, a 3D motion tracking company. The shoe finely tracks pressure both in gravity and zero-gravity environments in order to analyze astronauts’ performance during weight-bearing exercises.

Our bones and muscles are optimized for Earth-like gravity conditions. That’s why extended periods of time spent in space result in bone-density and muscle strength degradation. Weight-bearing exercises are difficult to do in weightless environments so space agencies have developed exercise machines using vacuum cylinders to help astronauts minimize the effects of time spent in zero-g.

The sandals will gather data on astronauts’ workout behavior both on Earth and in space in order to analyze the differences between these environments and design better exercises and equipment. These shoes aren’t a fashion item, they’re a device that’s part of a tool-kit.

http://enchantedobjects.com/

This shape-shifting ambient display moves its ears to express the state of your loved ones. It also reads you the news, even though rabbits don’t talk.

http://www.creativeapplications.net/

Created by Stefan Schwabe in collaboration with Fraunhofer CeRRI and Sebastian Kletzander, Gutfather is a speculative design project comprising a capsule that traverses the human organism and changes its shape through the influence of microbes until it is secreted as an object-bearing imprint of the microbiome.

Transmaterial book

OKALUX produces even room illumination without hard shadows. The light-diffusing property of OKALUX is based on a light-fast capillary plate located in the space between the panes. OKALUX can also be produced as curved glass or as OKALUX look-alike opaque panels.

This light-diffusing insulating glass elements illuminate rooms evenly to a depth of 50 feet while maximizing light transmission. This product eliminates hot spots and provides perfect light diffusion. The light-diffusing properties of OKALUX are due to the capillary inlay in the air space cavity, enabling a truly natural expression of the entire light spectrum.

Embroidered Potentiometers

"Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in resistance. In the example video bellow a metal tea-spoon is used as a “conductive wiper finger”. Syuzi Pakhchyan describes this method in her book Fashioning Technology, by example of a linear slider potentiometer using a magnet to keep the conductive wiper finger in place."

This is very interesting because it could act as an embedded actuator. It would be very user-friendly to make an unique circular motion on the textile to interact with your clothings.

- Vsevolod (Seva) Ivanov