Wearable Products Combining Fashion and Technology


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Creator/Artist: Krishna Kumar R.

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2002-2004

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1999-2008

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Suresh Sethi


Detailed Description

For ages, man has been carrying different objects with him, holding them, wearing them, and taking them wherever he goes. The advancements in technology have made it possible for him to carry various electronic devices with him. The birth of these portable devices posed a set of new questions about the relationship between an object and the person’s body on or around which it is worn. In the future, multimedia devices communicating via wireless networks will be ubiquitous and built into the clothes and objects we wear every day. The family of these products will utilise the latest advances in miniaturisation and wireless connectivity technology to enable entertainment, business, and security-related communications and broadband applications. These modular devices would be wirelessly connected, allowing them to share information with other devices and the user, forming a seamless network. In these technology-loaded devices, functional capabilities and features are often implemented without much regard for actual human needs and aspirations, sometimes at the expense of the user experience.