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  • A Cyborg Statement

    Technology as a wearable fashion in something of a novelty in today’s day and age. But what about as integrated fashion? As many a sic fi movie has suggested, technology will eventually be integrated into us. At that point all the information we need will simply be attached to you, in fact, an actual part…

  • Operation Tripwire or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Process Art

    Performance is a major theme in fashion. Whether it’s the performance an office, a gender, or otherwise, the things that we attach to our bodies can contribute to a character we want to project. Performance also goes further. On the runways, the haute couture assemblies of many designers are almost unwearable. They push the boundaries…

  • Thinking Cap

    Have you ever tried studying on a college campus? It’s not the easiest thing to do by any means. Loud conversations abound, the library is full, there’s nowhere to sit, etc. Every semi-studious college student has experienced it. But what if there were an easier way to find somewhere quiet to study? That’s where the…

  • Wrist light notification

    If you are in class, teaching a class, or in a business meeting, everyone has had the awkward experience off their phone going off at the wrong times.  My project doesn’t make people think about what’s changing or trending.  It adds the affordance of having another option to receiving a text or phone call other…

  • Right Lights – A new shoe-wearing experience for kids!

    If you have been around children for any length of time, then you know that the journey towards learning which shoe goes on which foot can be quite a grueling one. For some reason, it seems that some kids insist on ignoring your directions and patient explanations in order to put their shoes on their…

  • Scentless, but deadly

  • Iron Man Will Be Fighting Real Wars

    It seems that the Iron Man films – and other sci-fi fare – have inspired more than an onslaught of video games, comic books and t-shirts. Due to the increasingly dangerous missions carried out by the military, a new Iron Man-like suit is being developed for soldiers. Don’t believe me? Take a look: Video 1.…

  • Emotional Technology

    Synergy between fashion and tech have been on the rise for quite some time now, but as we’ve been exploring in class, any gaps which remain are quickly becoming a thing of the past. One of the next movements which seems to be surfacing is the addition of human interaction and emotion to this equation.

  • Hug Shirts:)

    The Hug Shirt by CUTECIRCUIT aimed to help lead the revolution in combining media technologies into fashion, and did they deliver something interesting.

  • Final Project Woes: Lessons Learned and the Future

    This semester in Fashioning Circuits, I was commissioned (re: required) to create a final project that exhibited the dual nature of fashion and circuits. Although I felt up to the challenge, I actually spent many weeks accidentally setting my project on fire and haphazardly learning about coding. It wasn’t all bad: I gained some new programming and…