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Amanda Cosco
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- WearablesDecember 23, 2016
The future of shopping is magic: AR beauty, VR malls & no checkouts
In a 1963 episode of The Jetsons, Jane Jetson has been invited to the theatre. To choose her outfit for the evening, Jane enlists the help of her daughter, Judy, and a futuristic projector. From the comfort of the family living room, the projector is able to enter "dress selector mode," which maps outfit suggestions…
- Health and wellbeingNovember 30, 2016
Oura banks on the future of wellness with its sleep tracking smart ring
As we move into the hectic holiday season, next-gen wellbeing wearables are seeing a boost in investment. One of those is the Oura ring, a crowdfunded, ring-sized wellness computer which has just secured €5.2 million in Series A funding, led by angel investors in New York. The €329 connected ring measures and interprets sleep patterns…
- Fitness trackersMay 9, 2016
Ear-O-Smart wants to turn your dumb earrings into fitness trackers
When Ashlyn Bird met Ravinder Singh, she had no idea she was about to become a wearable tech entrepreneur. It was autumn 2014, and Bird was a newly minted alumni from the University of Windsor's MBA program in Ontario, Canada. She was working as an advisor at a local tech and innovation centre, and one…
- FashionApril 6, 2016
MakeFashion 2016: The best fashion tech from the runway
It's often said that style is how we communicate who we are without saying a word. So it's fitting that a recent runway show in Canada took the idea of communication through clothing to the next level by incorporating new technologies worn on the body to enable new forms of human expression. MakeFashion is a…
- FashionMarch 28, 2016
Fashion tech has a moment in this wearable tech inspired exhibition
Fashion and technology are having a moment, and we're not the only ones who've noticed. Museums, those vaults of history and society, are clearly paying attention to the impact of technology on fashion. Late last autumn, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced the theme for this year's MET Gala and exhibition will…
- WearablesMarch 7, 2016
The social age of wearable tech: From Quantified Self to emotional second skin
On a crisp Sunday, as Public School models glided down a New York Fashion Week runway in oversized shirts and cropped leather jackets, their wrists were adorned with metal and nylon wearable technology accessories built for the Fitbit Alta. What Fitbit's collaboration with Public School makes clear is that hardware companies are waking up to…
- FashionFebruary 23, 2016
Anouk Wipprecht's fashion tech lab is a new hub for smart clothing experiments
Fashion tech designer Anouk Wipprecht is joining forces with the art and tech nonprofit Codame to run a new R&D studio in downtown San Francisco. Wipprecht, who has created experimental smart dresses with Intel and Audi, will serve as creative director for Codame Labs which plans to focus on cross-discipline collaboration between the fashion and…