It's the ultimate insider's sport fan gear. Imagine wearing your favorite player's jersey, but clothes being tricked out to receive sensations of what the player is feeling as he's on the field. They're trying it out in Australia. Foxtel and the agency CHE Proximity worked with three Australian Rules Football players -- Scott Pendlebury, Luke Hodge and Trent Cotchin. The … [Read more...]
Interview with Wearable Experiment’s Billie Whitehouse
We've written a little before about Billie Whitehouse and the Wearable Experiments Navigate Jacket, but International Digital Times has quite a good interview with Whitehouse that's worth reading. The great quote: "It's the Burberry guided tour of New York, or the Luis Vuitton tour of New York, or maybe the Diesel tour of Milan." Whitehouse said. Concerning the jackets … [Read more...]
Female Founders in Wearables
The site Women 2.0 -- "a media company at the intersection of women, entrepreneurship and technology" -- has complied a list of leading women CEOs of fashion tech companies. Here's their list, along with links to the relevant companies (which the originating site didn't include). Billie Whitehouse, Wearable Experiments Lisa Franco, Machina Roopa Vasudevan, Hate … [Read more...]
