by amy khoshbin alias tinyscissors: when your „coin slot“ is exposed, this wearable hip-pack vibrates that area to make you aware of it. you decide to cover up, or let it all hang out.

tech summary: using a Lilypad Arduino, vibrating motor, and a photoresistor (measures the amount of light in your coin slot), you will make a wearable apparatus. when the photoresistor/your coin slot is covered, the hip-pack is at rest, when it/your coin slot is exposed, this triggers the vibrating motor to start vibrating & let the user know.

see: http://www.tinyscissors.com/index.php?/interactivework/coin-slot-detector

http://www.tinyscissors.com

Fashioning the Future of a new relationship between parents and children; 

proposed and developed by the Mixed Reality Lab National University of Singapore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6usrx-GPM

seen@blog: http://www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/

HoodPHONES - Waterproof Hood Phones out of an old hoodie with some Headphones. The user has been using them for a few week now and he loves it!!! If anything they are great just as ear muffs! It is simple to do, and so far, working out greater then I expected. For further instructions see:

http://www.instructables.com/id/HoodPHONES-Waterproof/

Wearable Toy Piano

A Toy Piano embedded on a T-shirt. It has 8 keys from Do to Do (1 octave). You can play simple music by wearing the shirt and pushing the fabric button on the shirt. All the components from the toy piano (batteries, speaker, circuit board) are placed on the shirt and connected with poppers. All these hard components are detachable so that you can wash it if you wish.

This particular Instructable is made for the Electronic Textile workshop that will be held in Zurich/Switzerland on Saturday 7th December 2009 as part of the DIY Festival Zurich . If you are interested in this workshop, please contact the festival.

see also:

www.plusea.at

www.kobakant.at

Dzmitry Tsetserukou, assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology created HaptiHug, HaptiHeart and HaptiButterfly. Each sysmtem generates a different kind of tactile, physical feeling based on words sent over email, twitter and other messaging systems.

 http://www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/

http://http://www.instructables.com/id/Big-Warm-Fuzzy-Secret-Heart

Kissen mit Berührungs- und Drucksensoren, das bei Druck vibriert. Bauanleitung für alle Kuschel-DIYs siehe url.