Joshua Noble created a device that records grafitti tags onto an sd card, which can later be used as GML (Grafitti Markup Language) in environments like Processing and openFrameworks.
www.creativeapplications.net/objects/%C2%B5tagger-alpha-a-gml-field-recorder-c-objects/
The Autonets project aims at creating clothing with embedded sensors and network connectivity, connected together in an ad-hoc fashion with the goal of preventing gendered violence.
RjDj is an application which processes real-world sounds into new sonic experiences in real-time, something they called Reactive Music. It makes use of Pure Data as an audio engine in mobile phones.
Laetitia Sonami first developed the Lady’s Glove in 1991 for a performance at Ars Electronica. This is a controller for sound synthesis which is fairly dexterous with a distopian feel. Since then, performers like Imogen Heap have adapted it for a more musical approach.
Moff – a wearable smart toy – from Moff on Vimeo.
Moff is a wearable arm band. The arm band works in relation with a smartphone application. The motion of the hand is tracked by the band to create various sounds. These sounds can be selected by the phone application modes. What I found interesting about this toy is that it works on augmenting imagination of children. The toy build on a child’s nature to look at a physical object and imagine it to be something else. Children create a game out of everyday objects. Extending on the similar thought, it might be a good idea to build on existing behavior while creating wearable devices.
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Daito Manabe is a new media artist and musician. This is one of the first projects that got me interested in electronic art, especially coming from a musical background. At the moment, I was starting to become interested in developing my own sounds, rather than just the stuff that came in stompbox guitar effects. This particular project uses sensors that pickup electric activity in muscles, he is then using that to trigger and control sound synthesis parameters.
SENSORY FICTION from Felix on Vimeo.
Reader wears a vest which reads biometrics, based on which the book responds to the reader with different colors. As a concept it goes far beyond changing color of LEDs. In my opinion, the project aims at developing a dialogue between book and the reader. Everyday objects can not read our emotions and respond, wearable technology can intervene here. The body parameters can be used to change the default position of the objects. For example- Radio can switch to soothing channel by default when it is switched on if it knows that the person has increased heartbeat.
