E-Paper Blu Jacket by Lunar Design

E-paper technology has been tantalizing our minds and imaginations with each new, fascinating development that crops up.

Lunar Design wants to turn you into a walking billboard. The Blu Jacket is a design concept that uses flexible organic e-paper to show passersby your mood, subway maps as you see here, or can even play video advertisements to annoy (or enlighten) everyone in sight. Reminding us of Blade Runner, it’s a concept that could be used for good or ill.

technology into fashion and clothing. The latest addition is the Vital Jacket by Biodevices, an intelligent wearable garment that continuously monitors electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate.

Such bio-monitoring clothing is allows freedom of movement for patients who need constant monitoring and data collection. Another market for such technology is high performance sports and fitness enthusiasts who want to flexibly log their vitals during workouts.

The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and developed to be a usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and normal life scenarios, in hospitals, home or on the move, that need continuous or frequent high quality vital signs monitoring from the patient or healthy subject. The concept was designed and specified based on the long tradition on biomedical instrumentation and telemedicine of the IEETA institute of the University of Aveiro, Portugal (www.ieeta.pt/sias). This R&D non-profitable organization further developed all the microelectronics, informatics and communications.

The Smoking Jacket, by Fiona Carswell, has a built-in pair of lungs on the front that act as an iconographic “warning system”. The polite smoker can blow the smoke into a “container” at the collar, in order to avoid blowing it in the faces of people around them.

MP3 Smart Jacket, the perfect device to both annoy and repel members of the public. The music equivalent of a cellphone belt pouch, the harness hooks up to your MP3 player and trickles your tunes into passive speakers mounted on the shoulders, and a strap mounted controller skips tracks and adjusts volume.