What if your shirt would hug you every now at then? What if your purse told you you had forgotten your keys? What if your socks gave a foot massage? What if your bag kept you company?

It’s all possible and these e-fashion products may already be available

There is even a workshop called Hybrid Wearables Workshop, were  participants led by Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Dana Gordon. Not a keyboard for sending email from your pocket, but small solutions for everyday problems brought to you in the form of innovative wearable electronic fashion. The model below is wearing a dress that incorporates these stylish circuits within the dress.

The e-Pressed shirt has a series of switches which have embedded LEDS which light up when those pressure points need to be pressed. In the sleeve, the wearer can indicate which mood he is in by means of a hairpin. Later, the shirt should sense the wearer’s mood automatically.

Cat bag / cuddle bag

Are you lonely? Would you like a pet to comfort you, but would you like to avoid becoming a cat lady? Anouk Wipprecht, Nick Lesley, David Morgan and Hans-Gunter Lock made a cuddle bag for you- a functional handbag which doubles as a pet. Stroke it and it will purr, its eyes will light up, and it will warm you.

The cuddle bag has been implemented using soft fabric switches which activate the LED eyes, motors which emulate purring and sounds from encapsulated piezo speakers.

Made by Anouk Wipprecht, David Morgan (both Netherlands), Nick Lesley (New York) & Hans Gunter Lock (Estonia)

“We want to create a bag that can comfort you as a pet can do. The interaction is simple. You need to stroke the bag. The bag will then start breathing, it’s heart will start beating, it will give off warmth and make soothing sounds. The thing is, you can not feel the heart, breath and heat unless you hold the bag close to your body. Perhaps, when you hit your bag it give more aggressive sound.”

The model below demonstrates the cat bag / cuddle bag

We wanted to make a prototype with a love material: a product that interacts with you - would give you love, that are sweet, breath, change, non-regular, Just like a pet. So you can ‘bound’ with your clothing. An feel good product. Doing great at stress situations, when you are alergic to animals, when you have an depression or after an break up. Something that you can can love out of when you’re in need of it. That is alive, that makes a noise, that sqeeks, makes happy sounds, purr when you are stroking/petting it, let you know of it’s excistence, blinks to you and give warmth and strenght.

Posted: April 29th, 2008 under Designers, fashion.
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