{"id":6348,"date":"2015-05-02T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T22:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2015-05-02T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T22:40:37","slug":"forget-the-apple-watch-and-make-your-own-wearable-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6348","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Apple Watch and Make Your Own Wearable Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/forget-the-apple-watch-and-make-your-own-diy-wearable-technology-264\">Ava Kaufman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When most people think about the future of wearable technology, they picture Apple Watches and FitBit bracelets that are more affordable and wornas commonly as underwear. However, Becky Stern pictures a jacket whose zipper shuts off the annoying TVs in her favorite bar, a GPS dog harness that track&#8217;s her dog&#8217;s run, or a skirt with embedded LED sensors that sparkles as she moves. Then she sews and programs them, and shares for free what she&#8217;s made and how-to make it in detailed step-by-step tutorials online.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Though Stern has been sewing, tinkering, photographing, filming and editing things since at least the age of eight, she didn&#8217;t combine all of her skills until attending Parsons Design and Tech program. At Parsons she made one of her first electronic craft projects: a set of plush steaks embedded with LEDs. (They symbolized the &#8220;radiation process most American beef goes through during processing.&#8221;) In graduate school, Stern started producing video tutorials for MAKE\u2014a passion project that eventually turned into a full-time gig.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava Kaufman: When most people think about the future of wearable technology, they picture Apple Watches and FitBit bracelets that are more affordable and wornas commonly as underwear. However, Becky Stern pictures a jacket whose zipper shuts off the annoying TVs in her favorite bar, a GPS dog harness that track&#8217;s her dog&#8217;s run, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}