(photos from left to right: Stiff, Sticky, and Itchy)
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Stiff, Sticky, or Itchy
«Captain Electric» is a collection of three electronic garments that both passively harness energy from the body and actively allow for power generation by the user. Reflecting fashion’s historic relationship between discomfort and style, the dresses restrict and reshape the body in order to produce sufficient energy to fuel themselves and actuate light and sound events on the body.
(photos from left to right: Stiff, Sticky, and Itchy)
(photos from left to right: Stiff, Sticky, and Itchy)
SMARTSHIRT SYSTEM
"The SmartShirt System is a unisex wearable wireless T-shirt designed to collect physiological signals and movement from the human body. The System collects analog signals through conductive fiber sensors and passes them through a conductive fiber grid knitted in the T-Shirt. A textile connector passes the analog signals to a small personal controller held in a pocket on the shirt. The personal controller digitizes the signal and transmits the signal to a Bluetooth or Zigbee receiver connected to a base station where the information is collected, displayed and/or stored."
--sensatex
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Project Runway at the Hardware Store
Early in Season 7, Project Runway designers skipped the fabric store and went hardware shopping for the challenge. The winning design is to the left and my personal favorites are below.
Episode recap
Pictures
Recycling Artist Creates Portraits From Old Cassettes
Read about it and see more portraits here.
Also: Egg carton office lamps, a hotel made with 12 tons of litter, and a working hoverboard! Check them out at www.agreenliving.org.
Also: Egg carton office lamps, a hotel made with 12 tons of litter, and a working hoverboard! Check them out at www.agreenliving.org.
2010 Spring Greening Contest
Stuck at Prom
Each year, Duck Brand Duct Tape holds a scholarship contest. The rules? Make an outfit ENTIRELY out of duct tape for you and your date and wear it to prom! Starting the 18th, you can vote for this year's winners. Check out pictures from past years (2009 winners left) and vote here.
For other duct tape crafts (flowers, wallets, flip flops, etc), check out www.monkeysee.com (search for "duct tape").
Toilet Paper?!
Yes, this wedding dress is made completely out of toilet paper!
Check out the article and more pictures here.
Solar dress charges your MP3 player
Made for the Cornell Design League Fashion Show this year, Abbey Liebman's solar powered dress "uses ultrathin flexible solar cells to power small electronics like phones and iPods."
"Parts of the dress come from Cornell University's Textiles Nanotech Laboratory, which teamed up with two Italian universities to create cotton threads that can conduct electrical currents, yet remain light and comfortable enough to feel like the good old cotton we all know and love to sleep in."
Read the article.
Read more from the Cornell Chronicle.
Friday, June 11, 2010
BLD: Bin Liner Dress
Why would a Vogue TV Host wear a trash bag to Fashion Week? Find out here (and learn how to make your own).
Louis Roe at Fashion Week, wearing a trash bag dress designed by Ceri Bartlett.
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
"Now you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change to display the current Wi-Fi signal strength."
Buy one for yourself here.
Donate your hair, clean up an oil spill
You may have never considered donating your hair because the minimum length requirements tend to run high. (Locks of Love - 10 inches; Pantene Beautiful Lengths - 8 inches) If that’s the case, check out Matter of Trust. They will accept hair of any length. They weave it into mats or brooms and use them to clean up oil spills. They also accept animal fur and nylons. Read the full article here.
Donate your hair.
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