Fiber Optic Dress. The design of the dress followed the fiber optics that it needed to support.
As there is one central light source, I designed the back to include a pouch for the handle, and the straps of the dress to bring the fiber optics from the center back to the front, and back around the body to an even distribution at the hips. A big design challenge was how to give the filaments enough lift at the skirt, as I wanted the skirt to push them out at as near to a 90 degree angle as possible.
I was considering things like a fully boned structure or 3D printing small pieces for each group of filaments to angle them out at a perfect right angle. However in the end I just went low tech and stuffed the skirt with tutus :) I'd still like to explore these other two options eventually. Be warned that this Instructable includes a major fail at one point, so read the whole thing first if you intend to make this. Techno Textiles - The Ripcurl Project - Bree Kulupach Portfolio.
10 Futuristic Materials. Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1.
Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond. “Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger.
Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. InShare11 Materials. Future Fashion Technology. Your underwear won't be able to help you with your taxes, but your briefs may soon know when you need air.
Smart fashions are the next wave in textiles and they promise to dazzle consumers with their style and innovation. Here are some of the hot products to look for on the runways of the future. Researchers in the UK have developed an adaptive fabric that controls air flow by opening invisible micro shutters when the humidity goes up. A separate layer keeps the rain out even when air is flowing. Adaptive fabrics like this are now being designed in a variety of ways for undergarments, sports wear and fashion products. Painting the family room? Another area of development in smart clothing is wearable computing.
These new "techstyles" are being designed differently than your Grandmother's flannel pajamas. BOUDICCA - Motion Capture Sequin Dress. 6 Futuristic Clothing Fabrics. True fashion purveyors explain fashion’s significance as the only medium lying at the intersection of movement, architecture, and design.
What we wear on our body ultimately shows the would who we are and who we want to be (not to mention displays modesty or lack thereof). Trends inevitably make their recurrence throughout time, but with all the new technology at designers’ fingertips, it’s hard to predict where the future of fashion will be in 10 years. Even harder to predict will be the materials that make up those fashions.
Last summer we showcased three concepts that project science’s influence on fashion, but what we must take into account with all new prototypes is: Will these kinds of clothes be wearable and will we want to wear them? As seen in the short film The Future of Art, which we posted on earlier this week, technology should not be employed for technology’s sake, rather it should be implemented to solve problems, making our lives easier and more beautiful.
XS. Examples: (1) An Intimate Memory shirt with a very sensitive microphone in the collar and a series of light points in a flower pattern incorporated into the front of the shirt.
When a friend or partner whispers something into your ear, the microphone will record this event and the lights will light up, showing that an intimate event has occurred. The number of lights indicates the intensity of the intimacy event. Over time, the lights turn off, one by one, to show how long it has been since the intimate event took place. (2) A skirt with touch sensors incorporated into the design. Context: Digital technologies enable us to capture, store, and catalogue an ever-increasing amount of information about ourselves, including digital images, video, and audio as well as text-based data such as emails, blogs, and Web browsing histories.
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