Dress changes color with your mood

Posted by Xeni Jardin, December 19, 2007 8:50 PM | permalink

Electronics firm Philips has designed a purportedly "emotion-sensitive dress," which monitors biophysical changes associated with different human emotions.

Ingrid Bal from Philip's Design said: "You could programme the material so that it turned red if you were angry or stressed, or green when you're calm." (...) It was developed as part of the SKIN Probe Project, a research programme concerned with what lifestyles might be like in 2020. Time magazine named the impressive clothing as the best fashion invention of the year.

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#1 posted by Miles , December 19, 2007 10:12 PM

Wow! This might be the first designer dress ever to warrant its surely outrageous price

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#2 posted by Carnadine , December 19, 2007 10:46 PM

Robert Jordan predicting future high-tech fashion trends... Who would have guessed?

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#3 posted by erindipity , December 19, 2007 11:27 PM

The phrase `wearing your heart on your sleeve`comes to mind.

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#4 posted by XuYu , December 19, 2007 11:51 PM

Wow, it's like Hypercolor all over again. Where do I invest?!

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#5 posted by noen , December 19, 2007 11:52 PM

I wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit. Though I wouldn't mind it if it were something more normal. I've always hated high concept fashion.

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#6 posted by anthropomorphictoast , December 19, 2007 11:55 PM

Interesting idea. Probably wouldn't be worn by the masses with something like that, but in way more practical clothes like t-shirts.

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#7 posted by Teapunk , December 20, 2007 3:22 AM

Nothing you'd like to wear on a business date. Or a date, for that matter. Or at a game of poker. Or teaching a class ("Let's see if we can make Miss Smith go red again!"). Or at an international conference about human rights ("asked about Tibet, the deputy of China went bright red. Again.")
Then again, seems like a lot of fun.

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#8 posted by sushispook , December 20, 2007 5:41 AM

too bad it looks like something left over from the set of disney's fantastic voyage

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#9 posted by risser , December 20, 2007 7:14 AM

Two words: Mood ring.
Cheaper, and you get retro-cool cache'.

Peter

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#10 posted by gretagretchen , December 20, 2007 9:07 PM

Didn't JG Ballard write about something like this?

Oh I think the clothes in Vermillion Sands thought for themselves.