Thoughts...

Technology + Jewellery...

- intergrate technology into jewellery to add value (emotional, centimental) without making it tacky.

- use technology to speak about/represent the wearer (of the jewellery) on another level. use technology but keep it personal.

Jayne Wallace is an artist a jeweller and a researcher who explores the potential of digital jewellery within personal experience and human relationships.

Some of her works which i found particularly interesting was the "Stimuli" and the "sometimes" projects.

sometimes:

www.digitaljewellery.com/

LED TATTOO'S!!

just some food for thought.. this is a silk skin with transistors that are to be implanted into a mouse. trippy huh!

http://www.gizmag.com/implantable-electronics/13334/picture/105028/

link to Ying Gao's blog:

http://cavaaller.blogspot.com/2007/06/blog-post_06.html

this has vidoes and images of her work in which she combines origami with electronics to create clothing that moves in a subtle and very beautiful way, i.e. the breathing dress.

Hussein Chalayan

Airborne, Autumn/Winter (2007)

London, UK with Swarowski

This fashion designer pushes the boundaries of fashion intergrating LED technology into his fashion collection.

This dress is intended to reflect our "primal feelings towards nature and the cycles of weather". Combining 15,600 LEDs and crystal, this dress displays films that correspond to the arrival of a particular season.

images from: www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/archives/245

http://odeo.com/episodes/24268947-Maker-Profile-Wearable-Technology-on-Make-television

Wearable Jewels (?)

Gustave Trouvé, French engineer, developed a set of wearable electrical jewels for the performers in 1884. Trouvé custom built a portable accumulator for the performer’s costume on almost half a kilo, and built incandescent light bulbs into a design of colored glass to create an effect of sparkling jewels.

The electrical jewels soon became a commercial commodity, but it was only in the larger cities where the user could charge the accumulator. The power supply lasted for only 30 minutes. http://nfttu.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-come-ive-never-heard-of-gustav.html

http://ledlx.co.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=23

"Lost Values", found at the web address below, does lots of interesting wearable technologies using solar panels and LEDs

Vintage Parasol Chandelier

http://www.lostvalues.com/boutique/solar-vintage-parasol.html

Integrating solar panels and LED lights into clothing and accessories that, when not in use, transform into decorative light display pieces for your home.