Bats Have Feelings Too – a wearable cane
Haptic coat for the blind

Size 8
Handwash and dry flat

Materials | lilypad arduino, conductive thread, ultrasonic range finder, vibration boards, ready made jacket
Inspirations | navigating city streets in the dark, fashionable adaptive technology

Photo | Carl Snider
Makeup | Courtney Snider
Model | Ellyette

Price: $1,000,000,000
not really, you can Do It Yourself for about $75

eTEXTILE: a wearable computing fashion show
Maker Faire Presents its First Wearable Computing Fashion Show

As technology becomes ever more interwoven with our daily lives, innovative means of interface blur the lines between computers, textiles and fashion.

Maker Faire and Lynne Bruning come together to create a fashion show that fuses tech and fashion, function and form, reality and possibility.

On Saturday 22 May fashion designers, engineers and makers will join forces to present a Maker Fair original: An eTextile, smart clothing and wearable computing fashion show.

date: Saturday 22 May 2010
time: 3:30 p.m.
location: Telsa Theater
producer:  Lynne Bruning

featuring designs by:
aniomagic
erik johnson
grace kim
kristin neidlinger
lulie vision for livewire
lynne bruning
matthew garten
merideth
shannon henry

Mistress of Ceremony
Amber S. Clisura of Doedel Designs

Media Coverage
ArtFuture Video of the eTextile Fashion Show
Body Pixel 11 May 2010
Talk2MyShirt 11 May 2010

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DEMONSTRATION
Conductive Fabric: Methods and Materials
with Lynne Bruning

Sunday 23 May 2010 1:00 PM
at the Maker Faire CRAFT booth

Demonstrations and documentations of methods and materials to create your own conductive threads, fabrics and yarns.

Touchable samples of my conductive Instructables, instructions and time to answer your questions about how to make functional and fashionable conductive eTextiles.

Photographer: Jon Hsu

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