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from the stress-of-knowing-you-are-stressed dept.
From 3D-printed high-heels to Wi-Fi jackets, and watches packed with enough smarts to make James Bond jealous, fashion and technology are – for better or worse – increasingly intertwined. For Paris Fashion Week, designer Hussein Chalayan has teamed up with Intel to create a high-tech outfit straight out of an 80s sci-fi movie, complete with glasses that sense stress and a belt that projects live images of that data onto a wall.
The glasses are running on Intel's Curie, a button-sized module designed as a low-power, versatile "brain" for wearable devices such as Chromat's dress and sports bra, which surfaced at last year's MADE Fashion Week. In this case, the smart specs determine the wearer's stress levels by monitoring biometric data such as brainwave activity via in-built EEG electrodes. There's also an optical heart rate sensor and a microphone that picks up breathing rate.
Imagine a room full of engineers wearing these while the PHB unveils the specs for a next-gen project.
(Score: 3, Funny) by theluggage on Saturday October 08 2016, @09:55PM
Next step - peril sensitive sunglasses!
Douglas Adams should have got a better patent lawyer...
(Score: 2) by fubari on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:53PM
Saw that as "perl sensitive glasses" for a second.
Hmm... language-sensitive glasses would put a whole new spin on programming.
(Score: 2) by Max Hyre on Monday October 10 2016, @01:04AM
Oh, well.
(Score: 3, Funny) by theluggage on Monday October 10 2016, @11:54AM
Until I was almost to the end, I thought ``stress-sensing glasses'' would be a revelation for mechanical and structural engineers
Well, you can do that with polarised glasses.
OK, two pairs of polarised glasses.
Well, yeah, OK, two pairs of polarised glasses and a very small bridge made out of plexiglass.