Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a coat for workers on the Wadden Sea World Heritage site, with detachable solar panels on the pockets for charging electronic devices (+ slideshow). More
Future Makers: today we're launching a new collaboration with Autodesk exploring the future of making things. In the first movie in the series, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht tells us about the digital tools she used to create a collection of interactive 3D-printed dresses for Audi. More
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Cameron Bowen has developed a tape measure that enables tailors to generate digital fabric patterns while retaining the intimacy of the fitting process. More
This augmented modelling tool enables users to touch, poke, rub or pinch geometric forms projected onto their skin to design wearable 3D-printed pieces (+ movie). More
Google is experimenting with smart textile design, weaving conductive threads into clothes to create touch-sensitive panels that work like smartphone screens (+ movie). More
Graduate shows 2015: the Fall dress by fashion design graduate Birce Ozkan loses its fabric panels over time, like a deciduous tree shedding its leaves (+ movie). More
Designer and researcher Neri Oxman has successfully 3D-printed one of her "wearable skins" and filled its hollow tubes with a bacterial luminescent liquid to represent how it could host photosynthetic organisms (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: industrial designer Leonie Tenthof van Noorden, who uses 3D scanning to produce bespoke dresses, claims the technique will soon be commonplace in fashion stores (+ movie). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Ben Alun-Jones of Knyttan explains how customers can create bespoke knitwear at the company's "factory of the future" and claims mass customisation is transforming the role of designers (+ movie). More
Fashion studio The Unseen will present a sculptural jacket that changes colour depending on the wearer's mood during this month's London Fashion Week. More
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has developed a knitted cardigan with integrated stretch sensors that measures the movement of elderly wearers (+ movie). More
Cardiac radiographer and designer Brooke Roberts has used digital knitting technology to create garments with patterns based on MRI brain scans and medical imagery (+ interview). More
Neri Oxman's team at MIT Media Lab has created four 3D-printed "wearable skins" designed to facilitate synthetic biological processes that might one day allow humans to survive on other planets. More
This jacket by Seoul design studio Shinseungback Kimyonghun is covered with camera lenses that can record assailants and broadcast the images on the internet (+ movie). More
Warsaw collective Pangenerator has designed a digital necklace formed using light patterns that are projected onto the wearer's body via their phone (+ movie). More
This jacket by Oslo studio Drap og Design illuminates to imitate the colours of whatever the wearer is touching (+ movie). More
The collar of this sweater by San Francisco studio Sensoree changes colour depending on the wearer's excitement levels (+ slideshow). More
Fashion and technology: a Dutch team is presenting a garment that purifies the polluted air surrounding the wearer, at this week's Beijing Design Week. More
Design studio Artefact Group has created a conceptual smart locket that wirelessly interacts with social networks to display a digital memento of friends or family. More
Fashion and technology: the digital revolution presents the "biggest challenge for fashion brands" according to digital fashion pioneer Francis Bitonti who asks: "How will an industry where value is communicated by exclusivity and craft cope with this new space?" (+ interview) More