Showing posts with label smart textiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart textiles. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Smarter Than Your Average Shirt.

Here's a look at what people with really high IQs are coming up with for you to wear. Somehow this man has pioneered a process where you can seamlessly weave electrical wires and sensors into articles of clothing to read peoples' vital signs, a technology that will literally save future lives.



And what did you do this fall? Knit a sweater? Good for you. Really, good for you. :)

Monday, December 29, 2008

Light The Way

I don't quite understand how, but lighting company Phillips has developed a fabric that emits colored light patterns depending on the wearer's mood. Designers worked the emotive textiles into a floaty bubble of a dress that lights and delights. Watch it do its thing:

Pretty fantastic. I love things I don't have to really understand to enjoy.