Dress Reacts With Lights In Response To Air Quality

By John Farrier in Fashion on Dec 23, 2009 at 10:46 am

The Danish design firm Diffus created a dress equipped with LED lights and a carbon dioxide detector that glows as the CO2 level rises. It’s called the Climate Dress:

The embroidery becomes functional conveying electricity and computer information and thereby give “power to the dress”. The dress senses the CO2 concentration in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns varying from slow, regular light pulsations to short and hectic.[...]

The Climate Dress also contributes to the necessity of creating more awareness about environmental issues trough an esthetical representation of environmental data. Different light patterns are thereby staged as dramatic “micro events” embedded into clothes. They diligently and without concession tell us disturbing stories wrapped into a comfortable and reassuring cocoon de luxe.

Link via Technabob | Image: Diffus


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  1. Briananna
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Nice in concept, but spare me the artsy-fartsy environmental bs.

  2. ECA
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 am

    TRY this in DOWN TOWN VEGAS…
    Watch it GLOW..

  3. dutchboy
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 am

    I’m getting “global warming” fatigue, I think I’ll go burn a pile of car tires.

  4. Gauldar
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    @dutchboy

    You go do that, and please… breath deep.

  5. Gladeye
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    And best of all, it consumes electricity, thus adding to the… aw, nevermind.
    Could be fun for Burning Man though.

  6. swissonian
    Dec 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    just why have they taken a model who looks like a smug vulcan?

  7. Foreigner1
    Dec 24th, 2009 at 5:19 am

    No I do not concur – I like her face. Then again- To like or not to like is illogical so that must make us Romulan or HuMan. So if you Gladeye don’t appreciate her, I’ll happily buy the dress and her as a one-package-deal…

    Live long and prosper….

    :-D

  8. Gauldar
    Dec 24th, 2009 at 9:22 am

    @Foreigner1

    I think you meant swissonian.

  9. health
    Dec 26th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Pretentious people in pretentious clothes.


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