Wearable Tech Demo Night

Google Glass has revolutionized the way people make fun of wearable tech. But being-ripe-for-parody aside, there is no doubt that wearable tech is here to stay. Many of us have thought about purchasing a Pebble watch or a Nike Fuel Band, and these well known products only scratch the surface of what’s possible with current tech.

Join Huge for an evening of exciting live demonstrations of some of the most innovative Wearable Tech being developed, including a fireside chat on the future of Wearable Tech led by Huge’s VP of UX Sherine Kazim.

If you have a wearable tech product you want to demo at this event please send this meetup group a private message.

Projects:

MoiBy Despina Papadopoulos (http://www.5050ltd.com/who_we_are.php)

We developed Moi as the first true fashionable and expressive wearable technology and test the limits of simplicity, appropriation and expression in technology.

Moi is in many ways a staple technology: a thin, flexible wire, a 3V battery, a custom designed battery clip and of course, an LED. The project explores the ways in which technology can become part of everyday life, infuse it with possibilities and allow wearers to experiment with technology, and in the process tell their own story.

Moi is manufactured in its entirety in NY state and acts a personal beacon of light and expression in the bright urban landscape.

Fabrickit By Despina Papadopoulos (http://www.5050ltd.com/who_we_are.php)

Fabrickit is a collection of wearable electronic modules, or “bricks”, that make it easy to construct simple or complex wearable projects. Bricks connect to each other with a flexible, 3-wire conductive fabric ribbon. The fabrickit-bricks-and-ribbon approach streamlines the construction of wearable projects, making them more reliable, attractive and ready-to-wear.

The fabrickit collection includes a removable, rechargeable Coin Cell Battery Brick, x-LED Brick with built-in resistor, and a Snap Connector Brick which makes connections fast and easy. fabrickit is available on sparkfun. (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11811)

Drop The Beat By Wesley Chau (http://wesleychau.com/)

Drop The Beat (http://wesleychau.com/Drop-The-Beat) is a wearable electronic drum set that aims to elevate the artist's presence during live performance. Each drum pad is embedded with a piezo sensor and is attached to the velcro-covered neoprene vest. The piece utilizes an Arduino, a MIDI conversion software, and GarageBand. Inspired by Laurie Anderson's 1986 concert film "Home of the Brave", the project marries Wesley's interests in wearable tech with music, movement and performance art.

Frozen in MomentBy Lisa Park (http://www.thelisapark.com/)

Lisa Park is a performance artist and has always been interested in the shapes and forms of our human body. With her fascination toward material studies and textile design, she created "Metamorphosis I (http://www.thelisapark.com/#/metamorphosis-i)", "Metamorphosis II (http://www.thelisapark.com/#/metamorphosis-ii)", and "Life of Ms.Flora (http://www.thelisapark.com/#/life-of-ms-flora)" in her previous works.

For this project "Frozen in Moment", I wanted to capture 'time'. So, my idea is to make a dress that would show the flow of water. There are many ways to explore this idea with using rubber paints, wax, or glue, but I came into a conclusion that the best way to represent the details of the water droplets is by 3D printing. I'm collaborating with an architect Carlos Sarmiento and we are in a progress of making prototypes with using Blender and Maya.

Listen to Your WristBy Tarana Gupta (http://taranagupta.com/)

Listen to your wrist (http://taranagupta.com/listen-to-your-wrist/) is a low cost, easily configurable glove which measures, records and analyzes the angular movement of wrist so that repetitive stress injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome can be avoided. It corrects wrist posture utilizing vibrotactile/audio feedback to the user. The device is accompanied by data visualization tools that can be run on desktop, phone or tablets.

W EARBy Michelle Temple & Eric Rosenthal

W EAR is a wearable electronic device that was made with the objective to provide a low-cost hearing aid alternative for individuals who suffer from hearing loss. W EAR is not a replacement for a hearing aid. W EAR is designed to be used when a hearing impaired individual is interested in having a quality conversation in very noisy environments like company meetings or restaurants.

Similar to listening to your ipod, users connect their personal headphones into our device that is worn around the neck. The microphone creates a directional sound lobe 3-5 feet in front of the user. This wearable assistive device is made to improve the quality of one on one conversations, while aiding in canceling out extraneous noise. Worn with noise canceling headphones, the wearable device amplifies sound directly in front of the user, while canceling out noise outside of the lobe.

Heatit By Sue Ngo (http://www.suengo.com/) & Eszter Ozsvald (http://eszterozsvald.com/)

Heatit (http://www.heatit.cc/) is an open-source electronics platform to precisely output high current. Sue Ngo is a Brooklyn based Experience Designer and Technologist. In her work, she explores the intersection of technology and art to create compelling multimedia projects. She has been immersing herself in the wearables community, teaching classes at Parsons Design and Technology, 3rd Ward, Death for Audio and Ventana244. Her work has been featured most notably on Anderson Cooper 360 as well as Huffington Post, WNYC, Core77, Creator’s Project and Fast Company. She is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Eszter is a New York based product designer and engineer. She holds a Master's Degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications program. In the last several years she has been working on interactive textile displays. She co-founded Heatit, an open-source electronics platform. Temporarily she lives in China to develop a wearable product.

H.A.U.T.EHidden and Un-Tagable Eyewear By Amelia Winger-Bearskin (http://www.studioamelia.com/)

Celebs and adulterers, for a night out or a clandestine encounter, these shades will keep you shaded from unwanted photographs and Facebook walls.

Using infrared and ultra bright LEDs these glasses make your face unrecognizable (and un-taged) in photographs while keeping you looking stylish and uninhibited.

Hacking Couture By Giana Gonzalez (http://gianagonzalez.com/)

Hacking Couture (http://www.hackingcouture.com/?page_id=28) is the brand that supports the process of using the code of something that is mass-produced in order to make something hand-made and self-expressed. The idea is not new – its’ what open source code revolution is all about.

Starting in the 1990s, open source code software allowed users to exchange ideas and dialogs through free documentation and distribution. Not only did this create an open dialog between programmers, but it helped decode the nature of software as people shared how they hacked. This opened a new world of communications and inspired the core of Hacking Couture.

The simplest hack must include some aspect of the core elements of a brand’s design code; the rest is up to them. Anyone can do it and anything can happen. Whether it’s a logo, color or concept, the hack should use the design source code.

Blazer and GrableBy Gabe Walsh (http://codeowl.tumblr.com/)

Blazer features an ultrasonic sensor and vibration motor (to let you know if somebody is sneaking up behind you), a lapel touch interface, ambient light sensor. The jacket can "talk" using a built in speaker and voice synth component.

Grable features two electromyography sensors that power an arm bracer with dual linear actuators and a robotic claw.