Lade Gaga for Polaroid

Self-washing fabric, underground NYC (literally) and recycled-magazine Nikes round out this week's look at the web

Polaroid’s Lady Gaga-designed camera glasses (consisting of a built-in camera and dual LCD screens), along with a digital camera and printer, debuted this week at CES, though the whole being able to see through the glasses thing hasn’t quite been figured out yet.

An Interview with J Mays

Ford's new all-electric Focus and their Chief Creative Officer on thinking globally and making drivers happy

Ford’s revival continues with today’s launch of the electric-only Focus at CES—heralding both the latest in Ford’s technical innovations and bucking traditional auto show debuts. We got a sneak peak last night of the new model (arriving in showrooms fall 2011) and learned about the advancements in charging that come with it. The new vehicle charges in just over three hours, about twice as fast …

Functional Aesthetics

LED eyelashes, wearable displays and biofeedback accessories in Dr. Sabine Seymour's latest book

Featuring a woven fabric cover embossed with a scannable QR code, Sabine Seymour‘s new book “Functional Aesthetics: Visions In Fashionable Technology” immediately offers a simple proof that textile can be interface. In Seymour’s second book on the subject, the professor and innovator defines fashionable wearables as “designed garments, accessories or jewelry that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology.” Seymour takes a more analog approach …