Innovalley

Everyone knows it: when spring comes, the sun is brighter!  Could you imagine a better time to launch our Youshine bags?

We’re thrilled to announce the official opening of our Lab-store, where you get the chance to buy our products, test them and make them better by giving us some feed-back. We are opening it with our first limited edition of YouShine, made out of recycled advertising banners from the city of Barcelona.

YouShine is an ecofriendly bag with flexible solar pannels to charge electronic devices (smartphones, cameras and the iPad). The flexible photovoltaic technology is still in development and hasn’t reach great efficiencies. We hope that our bags will help increase awareness of this technology and promote its development. In any case, the official launch of the YouShine collection is an important first step for Innovalley, which encourages us to keep on creating smart apparel solutions for clothing brands.

We invite you all to to take a look at the different Youshine models available at our Lab Store. And feel free to send us your comments and a funny picture of your new Youshine at:

Come to the sunny side of life and tell us what it feels like!

We are proud to announce that Futurotextiles is showing a sample of our Youshine Collection.

Futurotextiles is an exhibition about cutting-edge wearable technologies and smart fabrics. Every year, the exhibition takes place in a different city. Barcelona is the chosen city for the 2011 edition.

You can visit Futurotextiles at the Museu Marítim de Barcelona from the 15th of February until the 2nd of April. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the Youshine bag and lots of cool smart textile solutions!

During last week I did an Internship at Innovalley.

My school offers to the 10th graders the opportunity to apply to a company and get the experience of how corporate work is like. I think it’s a really good idea, so the teenagers can learn how to make better decisions about the future. It helps you decide what to study at University and what kind of job to apply in the future.

I made a demo of one of their products, the GPShoes. I like the idea a lot, because the shoes can guide you from one place to another without looking at your smartphone.

I loved the experience, because I learned a lot of things: how to work as a team, how to manage a whole creative project and how to use better my Laptop (Photoshop, iMovie….). The experience was great, because I had the chance to share five days with really nice people, all Entrepreneurs who left Europe to live in the Silicon Valley. Everybody has really good & creative ideas. I enjoyed this week because I could talk always in Spanish and I learned a lot while having fun.

Thank you so much to the Innovalley Team.

Pablo

Yesterday night, Innovalley was one of the exhibitors at the Digital Summer San Francisco, an event that brought together fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and technology professionals from San Francisco. The sponsors showcased their last innovations while attendees networked and enjoyed the music.

The central part of the event was the fashion show from Collen Quen Couture, Jan Warnock, Harputs OWN and Sofie Olgaard, which included the presentation of YouShine. A model wore one of our solar bags that are going to be launched very soon through Innovalley’s online store.

We had a lot of fun, we met great people and we were happy to confirm the huge interest that YouShine raises. Thanks so much to the organizers and sponsors for yesterday’s fantastic event!

YouShine gets to Silicon Valley We are thrilled because the latest version of the YouShine bag is here!

We just got a sample from our production center in Barcelona. We will proudly show it around the Valley!

This is a taste of the collection that we are going to launch very soon on our online store. Stay tuned!

This is our first Youshine prototype. Being a prototype, we are working on it: changes, corrections, improvements… but not so many: we are really happy with it!

We have worked with Demano in order to get a bag made of recycled advertising banners and flexible solar panels. This bag is so “Barcelona” and so green!

The flexible solar panels work perfectly: the bag uses solar energy to recharge electronic devices such as mobile phones, laptops, etc.

Our design team is preparing the final collection, I can’t wait to have my own Youshine bag!