My first “Meetup” event – Wearable Tech Demo night at “Huge”.
I went to the meet up technology event to the Digital agency “HUGE” in Brooklyn. HUGE Events are open to anyone who has interest in UX, design, agency life and more. HUGE is a digital agency providing strategy, marketing, design, and technology services to Fortune 100 companies. The company was founded in 1999 and was named the fastest growing marketing agency in 2009 by Advertising Age. Huge currently has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., London, and Rio de Janeiro. Since 2008, Huge has been a member the Interpublic Group of Companies.
This video showcases the different projects that were demo-ing:
http://new.livestream.com/hugeinc/events/2562109
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.
I joined 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. And it was a lot of fun!
Projects:
Moi and Fabrickit
Drop The Beat
By Wesley Chau
Listen to Your Wrist
By Tarana Gupta
Heatit
By Sue Ngo & Eszter Ozsvald
Hacking Couture
H.A.U.T.E
Hidden and Un-Tagable Eyewear
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.
… you might find me on the video [38:25] trying those cool glasses 🙂
Blazer and Grable
By Gabe Walsh
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.
… Really awesome!
Frozen in Moment
By Lisa Park
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“, “Metamorphosis II“, and “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”.
One of the projects of Lisa Park, which I really like, is the “Fluid Dynamics.” 3D printed creature repeats all the shapes of women’s body and creates a vision of the fluid. She considers the flexible materials that will be comfortable to wear.
… A little live demonstration of the project with use of 3D printing technology is on the video above at [45:20].
