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FashionWare Does Asia
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June 24, 2019
Robin Raskin
Each year at CES Asia we bring a bevy of high tech wearables and dazzle the audience with a fashion show like none other. Not just any wordless runway show, this fashion show educates the audience about how wearables are changing life. Each one of our models represents the state of the art high tech accessories and outfits. So whether you want to look fashionable at the gym, in the yoga studio, at the beach, or on the runway, our models represent in situ settings.
THE URBAN DWELLER
The combined efforts of Google and Levi resulted in the Jacquard Jacket. While it’s a bit of a flawed design from a practical sense (doesn’t tolerate cleaning, can be clumsy to use) it’s a great experiment in woven computing. The jacket designed for messengers and messenger wannabees lets you tuck your phone away and use the cuff of your jacket to signal commands. The cuff is a woven mesh of interactive filament creating electronic circuitry. A small snap like device communicates with via Bluetooth with your phone. By tapping and swiping your cuff you’re able to get directions, pick up messages and play music for example.
Always on the move, the urban dweller model is also committed to personal health. Hence he’s wearing the Withings ECG Watch. This new version is the first medically accurate smartwatch that serves as an ECG reader and can even measure arterial fibrillation.
YOGA TECH
These Nandi X Wearable yoga pants can improve your yoga poses by providing feedback about your position. The stunning pants intergrate small sensors that provide haptic (body vibrations) feedback. Using a Bluetooth connection to the Nandi X app you’ll see a visual representation of your stance and get the same feedback a yoga instructor would provide.
The yoga mat, by the way, is self-rolling. At the end of your session you simply flip it over and it knows to roll.
SAFETY FASHION
Shoe wear has gone high tech as well. This show from Evone contains a fall detector. Instead, the shoe is a GSM that provides autonomous communications (in most countries) and a GPS providing location and position. The shoes also have other sensors: a gyroscope, accelerometer, pressure sensors and a vibration point. If the shoe detects any abnormal activity it sends an alert… first to the wearer to make sure it’s not a false positive and then to the wearer’s network of friends and helpers if it’s a real emergency.
On her wrist, the model wears a bracelet designed to keep her safe. It’s an SOS bracelet, a CES Innovation Award winner designed by App Elles, company committed to preventing violence against women. The bracelet uses an innovative streaming protocol that includes live audio streaming (should you find yourself in a situation, instant replay features and GPS tracking in real time. If you can’t afford the bracket you can use the app to alert friends and family about your location.
Hip Meets Tech
Who says tech clothing can’t have a little attitude? We bought the sequined jacket on a shopping spree but underneath it, you can flash a little bling with the Lumen Body suit. It’s form-fitting and studded with LEDs. The shirt connects vis standard USB cable.
A hipster needs her wallet kept safe from hackers. This one’s a phone from PundiX. PundiX has built an entire ecosystem to make saving, paying with, and tracking your crypto investments as easy (and safe) as any other form of currency. The X-Wallet and the X-Pass POS system provide secure wallet functionality and support most of the crypto out there today.
On her wrist, the hipster’s smartphone of choice is from Fossil. It comes in gorgeous colors, is swim-proof, provides notifications, is customizable, displays social media, tracks activity and runs apps. And it’s demure. What more could a woman want?
Outdoor Tech
This is not your everyday shirt. It lets you keep warm when you’re in the cold thanks to its built-in temperature control. Developed through a partnership between Odio, MAS, Climb8 and I-Thermic, the shirt has a knit, intelligent heating layer. It was designed for skiers who are constantly facing changing temperatures as they ascend and descend the mountain.
The sunglasses are more than ordinary too. Opticshokz Xtrainertz are sunglasses that use bone conduction, Instead of covering your ears with a headset, the sound is transported through your facial bones. Great for skiing and outdoor sports, bone conduction lets you hear the noise of the world and of your music at the same time.
Smarty Pants
Xenoma’s haptic shirt has been available for a while. This year they introduced pants with a magnetometer-free motion capturing device. Just like the movie stars who record animation with motion capture, you’ll be able to use the pants with their built-in sensors and circuits to record your movements. Added bonus? They’re so flexible you can even wash them in conventional laundry machines. Using “e-skin” motion capture, pants are great for rehab situations or sports situations where you want to work on your flexion or range of movement.
Tech Elegance
This stunning laser dress demonstrates how we can extend the role of fabrics. The dress sends high powered red beams that form patterns around any room and on the model’s face. The dress was designed by Michael Starost and Anina.net.
One her finger the model wears the MetGem EDA Ring, also designed by Anina.net and MetaGem. In addition to its elegant look, the ring can keep you in touch with friends or loved ones should you find yourself in a dangerous situation. It uses Bluetooth to communicate with the MetaGe app sending an SMS with the wearer’s geolocation.
The Sunbather
How can a bathing suit go high-tech? For one, it can notify you’re getting too much sun. Working with an app that creates a personal profile for your skin tone, this bathing suit from the Spinali Connected Clothing Collection uses its built-in “cream alert” to tell you when to reapply. It also has a charming Valentine feature alerting your loved one when you need a little help with reapplying your lotion.
Fashion in Motion Dress
This dress is a collaboration between Anina’s
360 Fashon.Net and RFactory. It’s based a novel LED ribbon design. When the dress detects strong movements, like walking down a runway or dancing the lights become more vivid. When you in quiet conversation or not moving much the lights simmer down. Dressed up for the evening and nowhere to put your charger? Try the ReChargeable Wallet. You can power up your phone, or your dress for that matter, with a press of your finger.
So, what happens when you mix new technology with fashion? You get new materials, new functionality and new ways of creating beauty.
About Robin
Robin Raskin is founder of Living in Digital Times (LIDT), a team of technophiles who bring together top experts and the latest innovations to look at the intersection of lifestyle and technology. LIDT produces a number of notable conferences and expos at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) and at conferences and events worldwide. The company’s trademark events include: The Last Gadget Standing, Digital Health Summit, FashionWare, Fitness Tech Summit, Kids@Play Summit, The Digital Money Forum and others.
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