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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, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Sunday October 09 2016, @02:59AM
I don't remember 80s SF fashion (movie or otherwise) being quite that monochromatic… It'd be more fun if they copied the style in the booklet for A Mind Forever Voyaging:
http://gallery.guetech.org/amfv/dakota11.jpg [guetech.org]
...then again, if I acquired an Amazon Echo or similarly–shaped tech device, a mischievous part of me would be tempted to bling it up to look like a "joybooth" just to see people react:
http://gallery.guetech.org/amfv/dakota26.jpg [guetech.org]