Augmented-Reality Clothing Evolves With Its Wearer in Real Time. Share on Tumblr Email A cloak-like covering, Apparel has two incarnations: a polygonal computer model and its real-world counterpart. By manipulating the virtual version using a range of parameters, then viewing the physical garment through a camera on a computer screen, the user is able to visualize the changes in real time. By manipulating a computer model, the user is able to visualize the changes on the physical garment in real time. Although the Normals plan to pursue all manner of “future scenarios and hypothetical objects,” Clément Chalubert, Aurélien Michon, and Cédric Flazinski are particularly interested in the idea of fashion as an expression of individuality. “Apparel explores how online representation (profiles, avatars, etc.) meets real-world representation, a.k.a fashion, and for that matter, any object meant to display one’s individuality in public,” they tell Ecouterre.
“There’s a big chance your next evening dress will be a 3D computer template,” Normals says. Virtual knitting software simulates details down to a single stich. We’ve all been there, staring fervently at our computer screens as we use 3D imaging software to design our dream clothing. How can we know what it will really look like when finished? Spending 1,000 hours on a particularly difficult cross-stich only to find it makes your belly hang out can be quite a drag. Luckily, the ever-burgeoning world of textile-simulation software will come to your rescue. Not on the beer gut thing. Scientists at Cornell University have been busy putting the finishing touches on some one-of-a-kind software that puts the third “D” in 3D imaging software.
The technology is being funded by Pixar so it’s best to think of this as a way to make CGI clothing more believable. Hyginex bracelets will remind you to clean your dirty, dirty hands. Armbands and bracelets are tailor made for wearable tech. They are small, but not too small, and snugly fit around a human wrist in the perfect location to pick up Bluetooth or Wi-Fi signals.
As such, techy armbands grow with the industry. Some warn you when you are out in the sun too long. Some send simple text messages to people who are near you. Heck, some just flash lights along to Coldplay songs. An Israeli company called Hyginex has prepped their wireless hand hygiene monitoring system, which does what it purports to do. All of the information collected is then sent to the cloud and aggregated in personalized charts and graphs, so each doctor and hospital can see how compliant they are with general sanitation guidelines. The shirt you spray on: For clothes that fit like a second skin, try instant fabric in a can. By Tamara Cohen Updated: 07:03 GMT, 30 September 2010 Rummaging through a drawer, grabbing a T-shirt and slipping it over your head would certainly be simpler. But some of us are willing to put a little more effort into our wardrobes. The result? A shirt that fits so snugly it looks as if it has been sprayed on to the body.
Actually, it has. Thanks to a liquid mixture made of cotton fibres, we could soon be spraying ourselves into everything from T-shirts, dresses and trousers to swimwear and hats. Scroll down for video Stage one: This might tickle a bit... Stage two: Thank goodness I didn't ask for a suit... Fabrican - literally fabric in an aerosol can - is the brainchild of Spanish designer Dr Manel Torres who has spent ten years working on his invention. In a video demonstrating how it works, he sprays a blue and white T-shirt on to a model in just under 15 minutes. Drying as soon as it hits his skin, the garment can be taken off, washed and re-worn. Stage five: The shirt off my back... Color-changing, heat-sensitive bandage indicates infection. The color-changing, heat-sensitive fiber researchers plan to weave into bandages (Image: Louise van der Werff/CSIRO) Image Gallery (2 images) Australian researchers have developed a fiber that changes color in response to temperature with the aim of creating a smart bandage that can indicate the state of underlying wounds and warn of infection.
With the ability to show temperature changes of less than 0.5 of a degree Celsius, the smart bandage would allow for easier and faster identification of healing problems that are typically accompanied by an increase or decrease in local temperature, such as infection or interruptions to blood supply. Lead inventor of the color-changing fiber, Louise van der Werff, a CSIRO materials scientist and Monash University PhD student, says that weaving the fiber into a bandage will allow clinicians to determine the temperature across the wound and surrounding tissue. This isn't the first bandage we've seen designed to indicate infection by changing color. Jewellery sends emergency health alerts. 20 May 2011Last updated at 13:15 Dougie Kinnear's design has an electronic chip embedded in it A Dundee art student has designed a piece of jewellery that can "broadcast" the wearer's hidden medical conditions to paramedics in an emergency.
Dougie Kinnear, 50, said existing medical alert bracelets were often "unattractive". He said his looked like fashion jewellery but had a microchip in it. Paramedics can scan the chip to be warned about conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy or asthma before treating the patient. Mr Kinnear, a jewellery student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, said normal medical bracelets marked the wearer out as being afflicted with a medical condition - which put many people off wearing them. Mr Kinnear's artwork is designed to be indistinguishable from other pieces of jewellery, but can hold the entire medical history of a patient.
The jewellery be displayed in the Duncan and Jordanstone College 2011 degree show, which opens on Saturday. The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten. Stone Island Heat Reactive Jacket. *notcot in wearable , 07:18 Thermochromatic goods seem to come and go and never quite disappear… remember when American Apparel brought it back and AZFN did their version too?
Well latest to run into is Stone Island’s Heat Reactive Jacket “A hooded bomber jacket in cotton nylon canvas with thermosensitive liquid crystals, the garment changes colour according to the temperature. The fabric of the heat reactive jacket is treated with a thermo-sensitive coating that changes colour at high temperatures. Beginning at 27 degrees the molecules within the micro- capsules of the external strata undergo a rotation modifying the light course. The colour of the garment gradually begins to morph from the dark colour of the surface coating to a much lighter and brighter surface colour.
When the garment returns to a normal temperature it recovers to its original dark coating colour.” It is available in black that turns Green or Blue. See the video of it dramatically changing colors.