Collaborate Disseminate
Custom-fit clothing is usually quite expensive, but perhaps it doesn’t have to be. MIT’s 4D Knit Dress is an example of a new type of clothing that a robot could selectively shrink to fit the wearer, perhaps right in the store.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Video: Heat-gun-toting robot could create bespoke clothing on the cheap
We vaguely remember what we believe was a DuPont commercial in the late ’80s or early ’90s touting that one day, they would make clothing that could cool you. And …read more Continue reading You Could Be Relatively Cooler In Diamond-Coated Clothing
Like all Hackaday readers, we pride ourselves on having at least a passing acquaintance with how most things work. But we suspect to a lot of people, things we take …read more Continue reading How Does a Sewing Machine Sew?
Researchers have created a low-cost fiber that contracts in response to heat, resuming its shape when the heat is removed. Compatible with existing textile-producing machinery and not reliant on sensors or other hardware, the shape-shifting fiber could… Continue reading Shape-shifting fiber responds to heat, could produce morphing fabrics
The company that has pioneered digital image editing has unveiled a surprising new direction with Project Primrose, featuring materials that can change color and patterns in real time.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Adobe, Fashion, Materials,… Continue reading Adobe launches the first material that changes patterns in real time
While it’s often important for doctors to monitor a patient’s physical activity throughout the day, placing cameras in that person’s home is a pretty obtrusive way of doing so. Scientists have now developed an alternative, in the form of activity-track… Continue reading Smart Pants use fiber optics to discreetly track wearers’ activity
Knitwear can protect you from a winter chill, but what if it could keep you safe from the prying eyes of Big Brother as well? [Ottilia Westerlund] decided to put …read more Continue reading Circumvent Facial Recognition with Yarn
They may be a little brutal on the eye, but Capable says its visually confusing and extremely pricey cotton knits are designed to throw off AI facial recognition systems, by fooling machine learning systems into thinking you’re an animal and not a huma… Continue reading Flamboyant Italian clothes defeat facial recognition without masks
For the past year or so, a student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology has been working on a wearable that could allow folks to understand what’s being said in another language through vibrations on the arm.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearab… Continue reading Vibrating sleeve gives wearer a feel for languages
Although we have heard about “smart” fabrics which could be used in clothing that displays data, it’s unlikely that most garments will ever be made of such high-tech materials. The PocketView system, however, shines its display through existing “dumb” … Continue reading PocketView tech shines LED messages through clothing