Srabani Mallick
Tech fashion is essentially the technological development of the fashion industry. The global fashion industry is undergoing rapid and significant changes, most of which are driven by newly invented technologies. Technology constantly changes along with fashion. In order to survive in this competitive global market, it is essential to coordinate the technological strategy with the changing trends of the fashion industry and build capabilities accordingly. Nowadays, technology and fashion are coming together to create innovations. However through this article we will know about the collection of some ongoing projects of future fashion styles that can be transformed into reality.
CHBL Jammer Coat
Designed by Austrian architecture studio Coop Himmelb(L)au, the coat is used to protect the wearer from unwanted data collection and to become disappear. The quilted spotted white material and weave circle pattern on the fabric is added to further distort the body shape of this dress. Essentially, the padded jacket consists of metallic fibers designed to block radio waves and protect against tracking devices. There are lined pockets that accommodate smart phones, tablets and other devices. It works great for maintaining privacy where all your credit card information is safe.
BB.Suit
The BB.Suit is the opposite of the jammer coat designed by a Dutch textile developer named Borre Akkersdijk. It’s circular knitting and the integration of technology into the fabric creates an awareness of wearable technology for us in the future. This one-piece suit has electrical threads woven into the fabric and is embedded with copper wires which enabling to provide WiFi, NFC, GPS, and Bluetooth. There are two layers of cotton inside to protect the copper wires which makes it comfortable to wear and all these copper wires do not harm the body.
Bubelle Emotion Sensing Dress
This prototype of the surprisingly complex wearable Philips designs is called ‘Emotional Sensing’. This outfit gives us a glimpse of the future of fashion where clothing not only protects but also reflects our emotions. The stunning and functional garment consists of two layers. The inner layer is equipped with biometric sensors that respond to changes in the wearer’s emotions, and the second layer projects their outer textile. The garments are designed to demonstrate how electronics can be integrated into fabrics, clothing and to express the wearer’s emotions and personality.
Daredroid 2.0 cocktail-making dress
DareDroid is a costume that creates biomechanic cocktails. It is used in medical technology, customized hardware to deliver cocktails. Sensors on the garment allow the system to dispense non-alcoholic liquids and also detect your presence. The robotic dress and LED human hosts work together to deliver you a cocktail in exchange for a game of “Truth or Dare.” Robotic performance transcends human interaction in public spaces and inverts normal social experiences by asking people to reveal personal information.
Gaze activated dress
The clothing is embedded using an eye-tracking system so that the clothing moves when a viewer looks. The eye tracking technology will sense if someone’s gaze falls on the garment and the material of the garment starts to move! Responding to the viewer’s gaze activates tiny motors that mesmerize parts of the garment. This garment is covered in tendrils of photo-luminescent threads, and the other is a glow-in-the-dark threads that form a base layer loosely bunched at the top.
Holy Dress
Holy Dress is technology that is lie detector clothing. It takes over the functions of religion and helps us to lead a better life. This garment punishes the wearer when they lie. The garment uses voice stress analysis to determine whether a person is lying and continuously checks for lies through a speech recognition system. The dress will light up when the wearer speaks, increasing the intensity of the light as the lie increases. When the garment detects a lie by monitoring speech it will light up completely, flickering like electricity and punishes you with an electric shock.
Intimacy 2.
The wearable cloth is made from leather and an electrically sensitive foil that turns opaque or transparent according to changes in voltage. The high-tech garments titled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ explore the relationship between intimacy and technology. Be careful not to get excited or embarrassed when wearing the clothes as INTIMACY 2.0 becomes more or less transparent in response to each person’s heartbeat.
Karma Chameleon Project
Based on electronic technology, this smart textile uses energy derived from the wearer’s body and motion. This energy can be stored in clothing and used to warm the wearer and to change and control the physical shape of the clothing. It can also be used as a portable power source for charging other electronics such as cell phones. The vibrant and unique color-changing garment emits energy in the form of light. The yarn can also be incorporated into military uniforms to lighten the load of equipment including batteries and cables.
Living Pod
The folds of clothing created in the “Living Pod” project when exposed to light curl, unfurl and change speed with the intensity of the light. When an observer points a light at the garment it begins to move slowly and others exaggerate and imitate these transformations. The clothes also look like they are alive and breathing. This type of dress form consists of two coats. The first coat opens slightly to reveal the delicate inner fabric, and the second is made up of several fabric elements which expand and unfold like the petals of a flower. Clothes appear to breathe when expand and unfolded which can affect the viewer’s attitude.
Paparazzi lover
Several fashion designers work with new technologies to bring innovation to the fashion industry. Paparazzi lovers are one such outfit. This outfit is embedded with 62 LED lights that are sensitive to camera flash. The lights flashed when the photographers took pictures of the dress.
Robotic Spider Dress
The Robotic Spider Dress is a piece of wearable technology that combines robotics and fashion. The dress consists of a stunning robotic dress with a 3D-printed exoskeleton, 6 robotic legs that respond to the wearer’s movements, interact with it and protect the wearer. The garment responds to external stimuli using proximity and respiration monitors, and monitors the wearer’s proximity and their stress levels via multiple sensors. It’s a project that gives us an idea of what fashion and technology can be.
Rain palette
Depending on the rainy weather, the garment is made of silk fabric that is decorated with knitting, crocheting and embroidery. In response to changing environmental conditions, Korean-born British Dahea Sun invented a natural cabbage-dyed garment whose fabric is not only affected by the humidity of the air but also by its acidity – Color changes due to pH level. It can act as a pH indicator. The project invents a sustainable fashion that uses nothing but fabric and natural dyes to accurately measure the pH level of rainwater, provide real-time signals about air purity, environmental conditions etc. In this way, it will contribute to raising public awareness about acid rain, human skin, pollution and other environmental problems and promoting the environmental consequences of our behavior.
Smoke dress
The Smoke Dress technology is operated through the use of a custom microcontroller and battery driven sensory system. The protective dress attracts the attention of others with its flirty and flashing LEDs and covers the wearer in fog when people are near you and they invade your personal space. Just as an octopus covers itself in a cloud of ink to protect itself, the garment with embedded technology creates a veil of smoke around the wearer.
The Unseen
Material alchemist Lauren Bowker combined textile and ink technology to create this jacket treated with liquid crystals to respond to friction. This was designed as part of project called The Eight Senses, which is capable of translating human magnetism into visible color patterns. A ray of sunshine or a gust of wind will have a beautiful effect on this outfit. Combining science with art, technology and design, the garment can sense heat, humidity, chemical friction, noise, etc.
Wearable Solar Fashion
Wearable solar fashion is an additional source of energy that integrates technology and fashion. It has 72 flexible solar cells attached to the front panel, 48 rigid solar cells and solar cells that captured sunlight and convert it into electricity. In addition, there is a standard charging plug that connects the solar panels directly to a mobile device. The garment can capture enough energy to charge a typical smart phone at 50 percent capacity when exposed to direct sunlight for an hour.
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