Wearable Tech: Nine Can't-Miss Geek Chic Standouts

Technology has increasingly become a part of mainstream daily life. It was only a matter of time before it infiltrated your closet.

By Ashley Laurel Wilson

Life seems unimaginable without a BlackBerry or an iPhone. Lonely without our Facebook and LinkedIn connections. Less colorful without our favorite bloggers. Impossible to navigate without Slashdot, Digg and Google. In other words, technology has become an integral part of our work and social lives.

Now researchers and designers are increasingly looking to make technology crucial to another area of our lives—our closets. From the practical—shirts that monitor posture—to the attention-getters—clothes that light up—wearable technology is giving us new alternatives to standard geekwear.

Check out these nine standouts. (And when you're done with the slideshow, be sure to read more on wearable technology and its implications.)

High-Tech Brilliance

High-fashion met high-tech in British designer Hussein Chalayan's fashion show "Readings." The show featured pieces that radiated beams of light. To create the effect, strategically placed Swarovski crystals and hundreds of lasers were integrated into the pieces. Forget being "in the spotlight." With these clothes, you are the spotlight.

Image credit: www.waldemeyer.com/laser.html

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9

< Previous Next >