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Machina (company)

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Machina Wearable Technology, Inc.
FoundedSeptember 2011; 13 years ago (2011-09)
Headquarters
Area servedUnited States, Mexico, Taiwan
Founder(s)Linda Franco
Antonio Perdigón,
Daniel Fernández de Córdova
Key peopleLinda Franco (CEO and Co-Founder)
Antonio Perdigón (Co-Founder and Creative Director)
IndustryFashion, Wearable Technology
ProductsMidi Controller Jacket, OBE
URLmachina.cc

Machina is a clothing brand company specializing in wearable technology based in Mexico City and San Francisco, accelerated by Highway1 and Wayra.[1]

The company attempted to make a MIDI controlling jacket. A 2012 review in TechCrunch called the jacket "a cool concept and an interesting and kinetic way to trigger and control beats and sounds."[2] The company was founded in 2011 by Linda Franco, Antonio Perdigón, and Daniel Fernández de Córdova.[3][4]

A Kickstarter project in 2013 produced a prototype, with a delay of almost a year behind the projected delivery date. Since then, there have been no substantial updates and the announced open-source hardware has not materialized. As of 2017, the company has been developing developing OBE, a jacket for virtual reality with accelerometers and vibration motors.[5]

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  1. ^ "Innovator's Under 35". MIT Technology Review. 19 February 2016.
  2. ^ Jay Donovan (11 September 2012). "Machina MIDI Jacket: Sound, Movement and Fashion". TechCrunch. AOL.
  3. ^ Stephanie Lewis & Lourdes Contreras (9 March 2014). "30 promesas de los negocios en México". Forbes. Forbes Mexico.
  4. ^ Chris Richards (15 March 2013). "Making music through movement". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Linda Franco". MIT Technology Review.
  6. ^ "Machina's MIDI Controller Jacket turns your body into an electronic instrument". gizmag.com. 25 January 2013.
  7. ^ The Christian Science Monitor. "Wearable tech: How three designers weave technology into fashion". The Christian Science Monitor.
  8. ^ "Wearable technology: The bra designed to shock attackers". BBC News. 11 April 2013.