Fashioningtech.com: Where Fashion Meets Tech

Fashioningtech.com is the perfect site for the techie fashionista. It features wearable technology, fun DIY tutorials, photos, videos, and more! I love perusing spunky new designs and crazy ways technology is being integrated into the fabric of our lives - definitely fashion forward to say the least!

The brains behing Fashioningtech.com is Syuzi Pakhchyan. A little bit about Syuzi:

"Syuzi is an experience designer whose work investigates the intersection between code, cloth and culture. Her design and research interests include wearable technologies, physical and soft computing, and interactive textile design. 

Her book "Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting" explores the emerging creative practice of soft circuits and soft technologies."

Some fun things I found on the site.

{DroidDare: Mocktail Making Dress}

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So techie and cute!

Fashion Showcase: electricfoxy

Jennifer at electricfoxy is piecing together fashion and technology one stitch at a time.  She currently has two gorgeous garment designs that integrate technology with fashion: zip & ping.  We're so excited she'll be showcasing her garments at the expo!

About Zip

"Zip is a garment that connects to your phone or music player and allows you to control it simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear. In this case, zip up to increase the volume, zip down to decrease it, and tug on the pullstraps to retract the integrated earbuds. Enjoy your music experience without all the devices and wires hanging all over you."

ZIP from Dos Rios on Vimeo.

About Ping

"Ping is a garment that connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere. It allows you to stay connected to your friends and groups of friends simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear. Lift up a hood, tie a bow, zip, button, and simply move, bend and swing to ping your friends naturally and automatically. No phone, no laptop, no hardware. Simply go about your day, look good and stay connected."

Love the seamless integration. ;)

Mobile App: MapBox

"MapBox makes it easy to design beautiful custom maps, and fast to integrate them into websites and mobile applications. Whether you want to visualize census data in Chicago, monitor seismic activity in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake, plot drone strikes in Pakistan, or analyze election results in Afghanistan, MapBox will help you make more sense of your data."

MapBox radically lowers the barrier to entry for making custom base maps and overlays. Now data analysts can become mapmakers without GIS expertise, and GIS experts can become cartographers without first mastering design."

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Beautiful, functional, and fun! 

We love it! Come to the expo and drop by their demo table!

NPower Northwest

When we were first piecing together our initial thoughts for the expo, a lot of things were up in the air, but one thing we did know is that we wanted to be able to give back to the community somehow.  It was hard choosing a nonprofit that we were truly excited to work with.  We really wanted to help out a nonprofit that embraced technology in a big way and has the same attitude and passion for technology as we do.  We found it!  It's a match made in heaven; Happy Go Techy is pairing up with NPower Northwest to raise funds for their cause!

NPower Northwest is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits utilize technology to its highest potential - how awesome is that?!  They're "guided by the belief that technology can transform the nonprofit sector and play a pivotal role in creating greater good." 

 

Admission for the expo is free, however, 100% of the suggested donation ticket sales will go to NPower Northwest and their mission to help other nonprofits!  Register now!

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Expo Vendor: Craftsquatch

Our newest expo vendor, Craftsquatch™, makes geeky and internet themed pillows for geeks everywhere! Helping one geek at a time to sleep tight at night.

These pillows are ridiculously cute and are 100% handmade with care. Sleep tight at night knowing that your favorite internet application is right there with you. They also make great decor for your couch and bed.

Especially love this set of Google icon pillows!

If you can't make it to the Happy Go Techy Expo this year you can purchase your internet pillow by Craftsquatch here. Custom orders are also welcome!

Welcoming Meylah As A Happy Go Techy Expo Sponsor!

We’re so happy go announce that Meylah, the ever so awesome and powerful all in one e-commerce platform and marketplace, will be joining us as a sponsor at the Happy Go Techy Expo on June 25h.

Meylah is devoted to building an online creative community for individuals to learn, share and support each other’s business growth online. They know how hard and time consuming being an entrepreneur can be so they offer the tools to help creative business entrepreneurs succeed.

Here are the things you can do on Meylah:



Meylah's Online Marketplace to Drive Sales for Their Sellers:



It’s been a great pleasure getting to know the founding team at Meylah, they are truly devoted to helping their sellers gain visibility and I especially love the story about how Meylah got started:

“Once upon a time, a group of creative individuals who, perhaps like you, hold down serious day jobs — decided it was time to create a new kind of creative community. Having found that it is hard to get your bearings in the online creative world, we imagined a place for like-minded people to share and advance creatively, while getting step-by-step directions to turn our passion into a business.”

The artists on Meylah are phenomenal. Check it out today and stop by their booth at the Happy Go Techy Expo!

LinkedIn's IPO Is No Bubble - PCmag.com

A great take on LinkedIn as a company and its IPO today.  

A few lines from the article:

LinkedIn has always been like the more mature, smarter and neater brother to the plethora of other social-networking environments that sprung up over the last decade. It's not messy or confused like MySpace or overly friendly like the dearly departed Friendster. It's not about family and friends like Facebook or brief, pithy posts like Twitter. LinkedIn can plug into other software, like Microsoft Office, but unlike Twitter, it's never been cannibalized by its own third-party APIs. The LinkedIn site is a true destination.

With that said, congratulations to our good friend Michael (Phongzie) Nguyen!  We're so happy for you!  I'm off to polish off my Linked-In profile now...

Part & Parcel & Pink!

Each month in 2011 (as part of their Behind the Curtain section on their site), Kate Spade will be commissioning a short film based on a color.  January's color is red so it follows accordingly that February's is pink!  Watch the stop motion short film by Part & Parcel here.

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More behind the scenes Part & Parcel videos here.