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 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.
We might shout less
at one another in the future, as it looks like we'll be wearing our
hearts on our sleeves. Another garment that displays your emotions to
the world is the GER Mood Sweater, by design lab Sensoree.
Based on the technology of a classic lie detector test, it interprets
emotions and displays mood instantly as an interactive light display.
Blue means relaxed and red is nervous or angry.
Rather than bringing
dirt into your house, these shoes will clean it up. Looking like
something out of Star Wars, the FOKI vacuum shoes are a concept from
Indonesian product designer Adika Titut Triyugo.
They are equipped with a pair of rotary cleaners on the sole of each
shoe and a LED display on top that indicates battery life and cleaning
progress. So be a trooper and go vacuum.
It's a love/hate
thing. The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good
and tends to ruin your hair. Thankfully the future offers a solution --
the Hövding. A
Swedish creation, the Hövding is an "airbag for cyclists". It's worn as a
collar and only expands into a full helmet if you have an accident.
The future is all
about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all
problems at hand. Literally. For example, if you wear Lark Pro's
vibrating alarm bracelet, you can slip out of bed quietly without
waking your partner. It's also designed to help insomniacs improve their
sleeping patterns, by picking the optimal time in a sleep cycle to wake
a user up.
Don't like strangers approaching you? Then the Smoke Dress is a must-have. Designed by Anouk Wipprecht,
the dress can suddenly visually obliterate itself through the emission
of a cloud of smoke. Ambient clouds of smoke are created when the dress
detects a visitor approaching, thus camouflaging itself within it's own
materiality. Perfect if you are a fashionable socialite AND a
misanthrope.
The future will be bright in all those augmented realities. Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
Tired of waiting
forever at a bar before you finally get your mojito? Tired of
over-crowded bars even? Soon, your best cocktail dress will also make
the cocktails. The DareDroid dress uses medical technology, customized
hardware and mood analysis to provide you with your favorite poison.
Designed by Anouk Wipprecht.
Technology opens up new playful ways for people to interact. SENSOREE's Heart Sync
is a heart synchronizing game to find out when our hearts beat as one.
The players wear corsets that display their heart rate. When close to
one other, each player's hood senses the other's pulse and synchronizes
to it.
When two Heart Sync player's hearts have completely synchronized, the hoods swirl white and the game is won.
The field of
wearable technology is rich with exploration of human emotion -- and
headwear that would turn Padmé Amidala green with envy. The flirty Blinklifier
is a concept by Tricia Flanagan and Katia Vega. It's fitted with LEDs
that respond to specific eye-movement and could take flirting to a new
level. Researchers hope the result will give people more visual clues
about how their friends are feeling.
One ring to rule them all! Use the NFC Ring,
a UK-based Kickstarter project created by John McLear, to unlock doors,
share pictures, share social network links, unlock phones and much
more. Just fist-bump your phone or tablet or use an open-palm gesture to
transfer the information. And it never needs charging. Booya!
Shine bright like a diamond ... or be the star at futuristic rave parties. The GalaxyDress by CuteCircuit
is embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs, and is believed to be the
largest wearable display in the world. The LEDs are extra-thin, flexible
and hand embroidered on a layer of silk. Fabulous darling!
Doing exercise
without monitoring yourself be rare in the future of wearable
technology. And wearing a giant watch that counts your steps is so 2012.
That's where the Misfit Shine necklace
comes in. It's a physical activity tracker that you can hang around
your neck, or put wherever your want. The Shine's 12 dots represent your
daily activity goal.
Glow in the dark with the LumiDress. Made up of ultra-thin optical fibers woven together with other synthetic fiber this dress will light up the night.
This concept dress called Bubelle by Philip's Design interacts
with and predicts the wearer's emotional state by changing colors. A
beautiful white can turn into a relaxed blue. Philip's dresses are made
from high-tech materials and are still in the concept phase.
Skip the perfume
and let your body do the ... scenting. The Smart Second Skin Dress by
Jenny Tillotson is a research project aimed at creating scents for every
occasion. The dress allows a user to breathe the scent of his or her
choice. It can be to energize, to boost confidence or simply to smell
nice.
If flexing your muscles doesn't impress the object of your affection, then it will at least impress your shirt. Radiate Athletics'
new shirt lets you visually track each individual muscle's progress in
real time and make adjustments to your workout on the fly. Color changes
track the progress of your work out, allowing your mirror to become the
only personal trainer you need.
In the future, your
dress might advise you to skips that romantic walk through the fields.
It might tell you that the area's greenhouse gas levels are too high.
Danish design company Diffus
has created the Climate Dress. It's laced with hundreds of small LEDs
that will respond to greenhouse gases. They will pulse slowly when the
levels are normal and flash rapidly in highly polluted areas.
Thanks to all those
gadgets you can attach to your body, there will soon be no excuse not
to exercise. And to avoid injuries in the future where everyone will jog
to work, Sensoria Socks by Heapsylon
have come up with sensor-equipped textile that couples with an activity
tracker to identify injury-prone running styles. Then, using a simple
app, it coaches the runner to reduce those tendencies.
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
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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