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Biometric fashion: clothing that responds to biometric cues.

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 | 2 comments

Biometric fashion: clothing that responds to biometric cues.

Technosensual, an exhibition in Vienna, Austria, brings together scientists and fashion designers from all over the world to demonstrate something unique: a barrage of technologic fashion.

The tagline for the Technosensual exhibition is “where fashion meets technology,” and the massive spectrum of pieces complied for the show truly boast that. Among the various technologies incorporated into clothing, biometrics made their own big appearances.

Imagine a dress fitted with sensors to measure heart rate, respiration, and skin conductivity that changes color based upon your mood? What about a garment that detected dishonesty in the voices of the people around you and, in response, glimmered and shocked you, like a wearable lie detector?

There’s even a dress (pictured above) that uses your heart rate to make the fabric more or less transparent. Talk about revealing!

These dresses are as beautiful as they are technologically advanced, and the clever use of biometrics shows just one more way this versatile technology can be used outside of the laboratory. The real question here is, could this be applied commercially?

We don’t know, but we’d love to hear what you have to say. What other applications can you see for biometrics in fashion?

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  • Dexmark

    In order to sell biometrics in fashion, we have to go to the very basics and answer the question: 1) What will make it a trend or make it a necessity that people will buy it?

    The first thing that came to my mind is for medical use. In a environment where the patients cannot help themselves (i.e. a Mental Institute where the patients do not wear electronic devices) is to make them wear a simple clothing that only changes to different color.

    For example (medical use):
    1) If they are hungry it turns orange
    2) Angry it turns violet

    Note: this has to be sold to help the nurses/care takers have a visual cue if their patients need help.

    Overall the technology or the device should be justifiable base on cost of purchase. If it is too expensive it may not fly. Also for you to sell this, you need to have a documented use case analysis for companies to use and it should be easy to maintain.

    For example (entertainment use):
    another example can be: games (shooting games simulation), movies (people wear vest that simulates the vibration of getting shot or falling off a bridge). Similar to the 4D theater but bringing this closer to the movie watcher.

    There are two verticals you can go in here that I can think of medical + entertainment. The acceptance of those vertical is much easier than fashion.

    My 2 cents..

  • Molly

    Cool!!!