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When
Haute Couture meets High Tech!
- conductive embroidery lights up the Climate Dress by DIFFUS
Hundreds of
tiny LEDs integrated into an intricate embroidery pattern light
up the CO2 sensing dress developed by Danish design studio Diffus
and herald the next generation of wearable technologies. Using innovative
conductive yarns developed especially for this purpose, Swiss embroidery
specialist Forster Rohner created patterns that were both
appealing and functional without compromising their textile quality.
This soft circuitry is a milestone in integrating electronic functionality
into textiles and enables a true blend between fashion and technology.
The climate
dress is an interactive dress that is reacting on the CO2-changes
in the nearby surroundings. The dress senses the CO2 concentration
in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns by the
use of over hundred LEDs – varying from slow, regular light pulsations
to short and hectic. The Climate Dress is a statement that, trough
an esthetical representation of environmental data, contributes
to the ongoing debate about environmental issues.
The Climate
Dress uses soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence
to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery.
This way the embroidery becomes more than an esthetical element
– it has a crucial function conveying electricity and computer information,
thereby giving "power to the dress". Several microcontrollers are
connected to the embroidery via conductive threads, gathering data
from the CO2 sensor and transforming the information into light
patterns.
The Climate
Dress opens up new ways of integrating interactive technology
and sensors into textiles. The soft circuit approach and the seamless
integration of functional and aesthetic electronic elements into
textiles will support developments for communication, health care
related monitoring and fashion statements as part of your wardrobe.
Source:
FORSTER ROHNER AG
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