Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Bionic fashion: Wearable tech that will turn man into machine by 2015

Bionic fashion: Wearable tech that will turn man into machine by 2015



The dress that turns transparent when the wearer is aroused. Would you try it? Dutch design collective <a href='http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/info/' target='_blank'>Studio Roosegaarde</a> have developed a sensual dress called Intimacy 2.0 together with designer <a href='http://v2.nl/' target='_blank'>Anouk Wipprecht</a>. Made of leather and smart e-foils, it 'explores the relationship between technology and intimacy'. The high-tech panels are stimulated by the heartbeat of the wearer. Initially opaque or white, they become increasingly transparent when exposed to an electric current -- in this case a beating heart. The dress that turns transparent when the wearer is aroused. Would you try it? Dutch design collective Studio Roosegaarde have developed a sensual dress called Intimacy 2.0 together with designer Anouk Wipprecht. Made of leather and smart e-foils, it 'explores the relationship between technology and intimacy'. The high-tech panels are stimulated by the heartbeat of the wearer. Initially opaque or white, they become increasingly transparent when exposed to an electric current -- in this case a beating heart.
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Wear me out
Don't sweat it
Dirt Vader
Impact on the future
Sweet vibrations
Smokin' hot
Eyeing you up
What's your poison?
Sync your hearts
Heart-throb
Smize, baby
Fist-Bump your phone
Light me up!
Track it down
Shine on
Emotidress
Scentsual
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Climate control
Safety sock
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Two major conferences in the U.S. discuss the future of wearable technology
  • Nano-tattoos, sleep optimization and augmented reality devices could become part of our daily lives
  • Health and fitness monitors to play a large role in the future of wearable technologies
Editor's note: This week, two major conferences on wearable technology are taking place in the U.S. -- Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco and Wearable Tech Expo in New York City. CNN spoke to keynote speakers from both events to imagine how a day in the life of a wearable technology user might look in the year 2015.
(CNN) -- 7:00am: You wake up to a gentle vibration on your arm, you look down and see your wrist-mounted Lark Pro alarm throbbing silently. It is 7 o'clock, Friday April 25, 2015 -- time to get up to go to work.
Lark Pro is a vibrating alarm that allows people to slip out of bed quietly without waking their partner. It also helps optimize sleep patterns by waking you at the right moment in your sleep cycle. Sleep optimizing technologies are designed to help insomniacs improve their resting patterns by waking them during their lightest sleep phase. Monisha Perkash, a wearable technology inventor, says she uses her wrist alarm for this reason, to help "optimize my sleep schedule and track sleep patterns so you know you have the best night's rest."
7:10am: Before making breakfast you run your forearm across an ultraviolet reader on your wall to check your glucose levels. Your "nano-tattoo" shines back a reading that shows you are in the healthy blood-sugar range. As a diabetic, you used to have to prick your finger and take a blood sample to find out how your blood sugar was, but with the development of a nano-tattoo you now simply have to place your invisible tattoo under an ultraviolet reader.
The power of wearables comes from connecting our senses to sensors
Matt Miesnieks, CEO of Dekko
Heather Clark, inventor of nano-tattoos and an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences in Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston, explains that such technology "could be very user friendly, because once the sensor 'tattoo' was inserted, it would be easy and painless to take a reading using just light through the skin." Nano-tattoos are still a long way off but Clark estimates that, if they do become commercially available, they would be very cheap.
7:15am: Still half asleep you go downstairs to the kitchen and look through your cupboards for breakfast. Your Vuzix M100 assesses the nutritional value of each of the cereals on offer, and you finally decide on a mixed grain muesli, which you hope will set you up for the day with slow release energy.
You eat your breakfast with a HAPIspoon, which monitors your food intake to ensure you don't eat too quickly.
7:30am: After breakfast, you go u

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