The story behind Machina: the startup that is creating a jacket with embedded intelligence and sensors that is paving the road for a new generation of “intelligent” clothes that will allow you to monitor your health, life style and even be creative!
3. MACHINE. LIKE. CLOTHING
1980
MID 1980s
EARLY 1980s
MID 1990s
STEVE MANN´S WEARABLE COMPUTER AND REALITY MEDIATOR
INVENTIONS OF THE 1970s HAVE EVOLVED INTO WHAT LOOKS LIKE ORDINARY EYEGLASSES
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LATE 1990s
7. "Definitely one of the more interesting articles of clothing
that might just baffle future archaeologists as they dig this up under a pile of nuclear dust"
- Ubergizmo
KEY / JOYSTICK
FUNCTIONS
6 CM
MJ
01
MIDI JACKET
v 1.0
4 CM
VOLUME
KEY PAD
OR JOYSTICK
CONTROLLER
CHANNEL
SELECTION
TRACK SELECTION
LIBRARY
SELECTION
KEY / JOYSTICK
FUNCTIONS
sensor 1
1.8 CM
0
100
9 CM
sensor 2
1.8 CM
100
0
10 CM
sensor 3
1.8 CM
100
0
8.5 CM
MIDI
CONTROLLERS
sensor 4
1.8 CM
100
0
6 CM
sensor 1
INDEX FINGER
sensor 2
MIDDLE FINGER
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sensor 3
RING FINGER
sensor 4
LITTLE FINGER