Tag: technology
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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…
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Word Count Shirt… Sort of
The original idea of this wearable project was to create something unique to writers; something that would allow them to benefit and help push their passion. Many writers – myself included – have difficulty keeping track of our word count. See, writers usually want to hit a certain amount of words by the end of…
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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.…
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Exmobaby – We Know How Your Baby Feels
If there is one thing that all new parents have in common, it is the desire to understand exactly what their little bundle of joy is thinking and feeling. There are dozens of products in circulation that try to bridge the gap between the mind of the infant and their parents which include audio/video baby…
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Bringing Down the Houses
If ever there were a precarious moment when the foundations of the great houses of fashion should tremble this is it. Labels rely on three elements when crafting fashion, and one is about to become obsolete. Aesthetic, innovation, and scarcity rule the industry. Designers are skilled artists working within the medium of silhouette and texture. …
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When does Illuminated Clothing Become Fashion?
I ran the Firefly Run, a nighttime 5k where people dress up in illuminated clothes to run the race. Some people (like me) simply wore glow-in-the dark accessories, but others went all out in full LED costume!
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H&M’s Emerging Media Blunder: Computer Generated Models
Retailer H&M has received some decidedly negative scrutiny recently for using computer generated models on their website. As reported on mashable.com the retailer came under fire for superimposing real models heads onto computer generated bodies to showcase a range of collections on it’s retail site. To the unsuspecting viewer nothing is amiss, however if one looks closely…
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Fashion: A Very Short Introduction by Rebecca Arnold
Arnold, Rebecca. Fashion: A Very Short Introduction. Cambridge: Oxford UP, 2009. The title of this book is in no way misleading. It is, in fact, a very short introduction to the history of fashion. Arnold takes the reader on a helicopter ride through fashion’s past, present, and future, hovering far above specific instances to locate…