Did a wee interview about my gifs for Milk Made.
The internet of things is usually discussed in terms of thermostats, light bulbs, and kitchen appliances. Embedding electronics into comforters, clothes, and wall-hangings, however, could yield far more poetic results.
Chromosonic, by Hungarian designer Judit Eszter Karpati, is an experimental electronic textile that can change colour and pattern in response to touch and sound. The magic comes courtesy of temperature-sensitive dye. Audio files, processed through an Arduino, heat up nichrome wires woven into the fabric, making its pattern pulse in time with whatever's playing. In a sense, the textile becomes a material visualisation of the tunes.
By: Kyle Vanhemert,
It was the perfect ride in the Peak District - until some cretin on a motorbike thought it would be hilarious to slap my bottom, both degrading and destabilising me with one gloved whack. By Helen Pidd
Most women cyclists have a grim story to tell: the youths shouting "lucky saddle!" as you pass, the dirty old man at the bus stop asking if you'll give him a ride.
But Saturday was the first time I'd actually been sexually assaulted while out on my bike.
We try out a front light with a built-in laser projection of a bicycle, and a rear light with an integral HD camera.
In sensible cycling cultures like the Netherlands, riders are generally free to pootle about in relative safety, not obliged to be constantly aware of the next potential, looming hazard. In the UK and many other places its very different which is why those on two wheels are fighting back with technology.
Such aids come in two camps, which you can broadly term the protective and the retributive.
