Fashionable wearables.
Smart fabrics
- Clothes don't just look good, they're starting to think for you as well.
- When you bought your last t-shirt or woolly sweater, you probably noted its
-colour
-price tag
-washability
It's about to be a whole lot more technical now. Fabrics have become an arena for competition for scientists all around the world. The race is on to be the first to develop new fabrics that will not only keep you warm but also cool, dry, moisturised and free of bacteria, odour and stains while measuring your heart rate.
Eg. Nike's Dri-Fit material
Temperature sensitive textiles
- Fundamental job of clothes is to keep us warm or cool.
- Heat modifying textiles are mostly seen in outdoor gears such as windbreakers and beanies.
- Fabrics that conduct electricity has also sprung up.
- Jackets can also be wired up to monitor body temperature and heart rates.
- Singlets to monitor hospital patient's stats and send them remotely to a nurse in the office.
- How about having a mp3 player in built in your jacket?
- Socks and gloves that keep your toes and fingers at a warm temperature?
Points to ponder:
- Comfort
- Cost
- Convenience
Eg. In built mp3 Player
Eg. Wifi Detecting T-Shirt
Wearable instrument shirt.
How does it work?
- The wearable instrument shirt is a conventional black long sleeve T-shirt and the textile motion sensors used by the instrument for monitoring elbow movements and computer interface are not directly discernable in the garment.
- The air guitar works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation. There are no trailing cables to get in way or trip over.
- Textile motion sensors embedded in the shirt sleeves detect motion when the arm bends - in most cases the left arm chooses a note and the right arm plays it.
http://www.csiro.au/files/files/p9vg.asx
VIEW THE VIDEO FOR THOSE WHO ARE READING THE BLOG. (i didn't manage to get it running during the presentation)
- American Buck Wiemer invented a pair of underpants that filters out the smell of farts from the wearer.
- Won an Ig Nobel prize in 2001 for his unique product.
- Designed the underpants for his wife, who as a sufferer of Crohns disease, found herself embarrassed by her inability to control her gassy emissions.
- With the underpants made of plastic, the only place for gases to exit the body is through a triangular pocket strategically placed over the bottom.
- Inside the pocket is a piece of carbon that filters out smelly gases as they pass through, making the wind more pleasant to the nose on the other side.
http://www.abc.net.au/catapult/indepth/s1435357.htm
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/991e/zoom/
http://subtela.hexagram.ca/blog/
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