The GalaxyDress designed by CuteCircuit which is on display in the FastForward gallery at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago receives worldwide press coverage this week.

For a brief overview of the press coverage online:
Visit the HuffingtonPost and vote in the GalaxyDress poll!

The GalaxyDress video was also one of the most watched videos on YouTube yesterday.

Also featured at FastCompany, Ecouterre, Wired, Engadget, Gizmodo and FashioningTech.

Stay tuned on CuteCircuit for more news!

The “Future Tech” episode of The Gadget Show aired two nights ago and featured wearable technology from CuteCircuit!

In the episode as Suzi and Jason are discussing the future of technology and the discussion turns to wearable technologies. Suzi models the Kinetic Dress from CuteCircuit saying,

“It’s Fabulous! And I absolutely love it!”

The Future Tech episode is now available on the web for viewing, so enjoy the show! And let us know what you think :)

MindTrek starts this week in Tampere, Finland. MindTrek is the leading Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0. At MindTrek you will see the newest trends, innovations, revolutionary business phenomena and hear insights from the most high-spirited visionaries.

This year at MindTrek, CuteCircuit is presenting innovations in the filed of Wearable Technology as part of “Visions of Future User Interfaces” at 11:20 on Friday, October 2nd.

http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/

MindTrek brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in fields ranging from sociology and economy, to technology.

In recent years there have been speakers such as Marc Davis (Yahoo!), Chris DiBona (Google), Anssi Vanjoki (Nokia), Bob Sutor (IBM), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent), Paula le Dieu (BBC, Creative Archive), Florence Nibart-Devouard (Wikimedia Foundation), Teemu Kurppa (Jaiku), Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation), Monty Widenius (MySQL), etc.

MindTrek 2009 will be held in Tampere, Finland from Sep 30th – Oct 2nd.

The Connected Body event will take place in the Conference Hall at the PICNIC Festival on the 24th of September beginning at 3:50 in the afternoon. Topics of interest will include the marriage of Fashion and Technology and what new interface experiences this will bring. It should be a very fun event and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Connected Body:
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/53116/en

PICNIC:
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has published its first Podcast to correspond with the FastForward: Inventing the Future Exhibit and the Podcast is all about CuteCircuit and Wearable Technologies from CuteCircuit that are currently on display in the FastForward exhibit at the museum.

The interview with Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz was recorded at the opening of the exhibit in Chicago, is about 5 minutes long and discusses wearable technology and the future of fashion!

Download the entire podcast here! (MP3 format, 12.7 MB)

Rotterdam Event -
Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology

Update
Check it out! Those guys from V2 are way organized! A video stream of the entire event is now available here! (.mov stream)

Original Post
CuteCircuit designers will be presenting the latest prototype of the HugShirt at V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam. The one-night event will focus on wearable technology designs with presentations from CuteCircuit designers Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella, Sabine Seymour author of Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology, and Aram Bartholl. After the presentations there will a debate and discussion moderated by Michel van Dartel from V2 and the evening will conclude with Wearable Technology based performances from KOBAKANT: Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson.

After the performances, visitors are invited to try out the HugSHirt for themselves, getting a hug from across the world!

CuteCircuit founders Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella were in Helsinki Finland this week to give a Keynote Speech at the Ubiquitous Computing Summit 2009.

The field of Ubiquitous Computing deals with how computing and human-computer interaction is accomplished when computers no longer reside on a desktop in a home or office, but literally reside in every product that we interact with on a daily basis. And of course, Wearable Technology is a key component of this new technological landscape. Having a microprocessor in your clothing or a powerful computer in your dress is no longer the realm of Science Fiction because these things are part of our world today and will be increasingly part of our world in the future.

The talk from Ryan and Francesca focused on how the designs from CuteCircuit emerge specifically with users in mind, often including users in the design process, and how this design process produces designs that are delightful and empower users. Designing for the world of Ubiquitous Computers is not an easy task because data and information can flow literally to and from every person in every part of the world. CuteCircuit’s presentation focused on the products that will be defining this new environment.

Again this year CuteCircuit will be giving a talk at the Smart Fabrics conference. This year’s conference takes place in Rome, Italy from March 10th to the 12th.

Differentiating this year’s talk, the presentation will showcase new products from the CuteCircuit label and give key insights in using “beautiful design” principles as a tool for creating value and appeal in the creation of wearable solutions, including how the emerging market for Wearable Technology sits at the intersection of Technology, Design and Fashion and a forecast of its future growth.

BARCELONA –
Wearing the HugShirt and smiling broadly, the Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Mervyn Davies received a tele-hug transmitted from across the pavilion. The latest prototype of the HugShirt was unveiled last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the worlds largest trade fair for the mobile telecommunication industry. The Minister was not the only one to try the HugShirt in Barcelona where all of the 45,000 visitors were invited to the CuteCircuit booth to try it on and experience the HugShirt for themselves.

Many visitors after trying the shirt brought back their friends to try it as well. “I had to come see this for myself, I didn’t believe it was possible!” one visitor commented. Many visitors to the booth were attracted by the stylish design and one visitor commented, “it looks beautiful and now that I know what it does I want one even more!”

The Mobile World Congress is a great venue for the HugShirt as the HugShirt is the world’s first wearable touch telecommunication device. The HugShirt being shown in Barcelona marked the first time that Wearable Technology has appeared at the Mobile World Congress. Many visitors to the congress this year were eager to find new innovations to carry the mobile industry through the current economic climate and a new genre of product that can tele-communicate like the HugShirt generated excitement and optimism.

Get a glimpse of the Future in Chicago!

An exciting new semi-permanent gallery has opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, called FastForward: Inventing the Future and it includes amazing and entertaining innovation from all over the world. Included in the exhibit are the forward thinking wearable technologies of CuteCircuit.

The exhibition also includes the specially commissioned GalaxyDress. Designed by CuteCircuit the GalaxyDress is the world’s largest full color wearable display in the shape of a fantastic silk chiffon-layered evening gown with 24000 LEDs embroidered on silk.

The exhibit includes prototypes of the HugShirt, as well as photographs of a number of other wearable technologies that CuteCircuit has developed. Additionally the exhibit includes a video interview with CuteCircuit founders, Francesca and Ryan, talking about the inspiration behind the company and their ground-breaking designs.

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

FastForward: Inventing the Future