Modular Extensible Reconfigurable Dress
Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed in such a way as to accommodate a solar cell, a RGB LED, or a photocell, and jumper connectors (in the form of 0 Ohm resistors). A control board provides power, communicates with the tiles, and links to a computer via RF. The dress is completely modular both in terms of software and hardware.
A USB board provides virtual serial port to Windows, Macs and Linux while an on board microcontroller relays data to and from the dress via a 2.4 GHz RF link. This allows for programmability (and status monitoring) from the computer side in the form of simple commands and responses via the virtual serial port. Currently a Max program has been developed that provides a graphical user interface for programming the tiles, while a Flash and Java program are part of future developments.
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Inovative and Original Fiber Optic Fabric
Based on inovative LUMNIEX, LumiGram developed the technology that allows to wave plastic optical fibers alongside synthetic fibers, forming a luminous fabric. This innovation can be used in many fields: fashion and clothing (bags, accessories, clothes), decoration (pillows, tablecloths, curtains, …), furnitures, etc…
Unlike standard optical fibers, the fiber optic fabric emits light along the full lenght of the fibers. The luminous effect is simply stunning, dazzling, and wonderfully original.
Depending on the type of electronic module used with the fabric, several colors are possible (the most common and the most luminous being blue, red, green, yellow and white).
The Fiber Optic Fabric can be hand washed with water up to 70°C and natural soap (the battery must be removed prior to washing).
The Fiber Optic Fabric shouldn’t be washed in washing machine, folded (pressed) or ironed.
Impressive Line of LED Embeded Hats
Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer.
Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results.
With more than eight years of experience in this newly-emerging field, Janet is well known as a pioneer and innovator, creating unique apparel for a variety of international clients.
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iBand - a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange
The iBand project aims to leverage the simple gesture of the handshake, coupled with the qualities of jewelry to act as tangible keepsakes and reminders of relationships, to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing.
The prototype is a wearable bracelet, adjustable in design for different kinds of users (male, female). When worn, the circuit board and battery lay flat under the wrist and an infrared (IR) transceiver is positioned near the back of the thumb pointing toward the hand such that it is visible to an IR transceiver on another device when shaking hands. A handshake is detected via infrared transceiver alignment combined with hand/wrist orientation and gesture recognition using a 2-axis accelerometer.
In a full experience with this prototype, the user first enters contact/biographical information into a kiosk, which stores it in a database and assigns a unique ID number to their iBand. The user can also create a personal logo that appears on the LED display woven into their device. When the user shakes hands with another iBand user, ID numbers and logos are exchanged and stored. The LED display cycles through the stored logos at a pace reflecting the number of hands that have been shaken. When the user returns to the kiosk, it displays a list of new contacts by looking up the collected ID numbers in the database.
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Fashion LED Caplet
Gracie Kim, who recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, creates the capelet that is powered by a 3V coin cell battery and 1″ x 3″ circuit board located on the back of the piece.
This thesis explores current aesthetics of wearable technology. A precept of design is that form follows function. The more emphasis placed on the technological functionality of a wearable, the more the form of the garment caters to that function. As an exploration, I’ve focused the function of my wearable solely on adornment.
The capelet was knitted and felted by hand. It is embroidered with conductive thread. The thread carries electric current to LEDs that are beaded into the embroidery, making the electronic current part of the garment’s adornment. The LED beads flicker, acting like a sequin in the light.
Gracie Kim also provide us with great how to integrate led light in your textile and build your own gadgets fashion style clothes. Wisit her project blog here…
The Soft Electric was just admitted to the Future Fashion Event, hosted by Cute Circuit and Codice-Idee at Viaggio Telecom 2006 in Pisa, Italy
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