Futuristic Fashionwear
Wearable technology is all the rage, but the craze goes beyond connected eyewear such as Google Glass and smart timepieces such as Apple's iWatch.
Designers are creating apparel, accessories and fitness wear that can do everything from monitor your heart rate to charge your smartphone.
Here's a look at some of the haute tech trends in fashion.
Baubles and Bangles
In the future, our own personal air purifier may defend us from all that nasty air outside.
Worn on the wrist, the Hand Tree design sucks up and filters polluted air, and recycles it back into the atmosphere. It was created by Alexandr Kostin, a semifinalist in the Electrolux Design Lab Competition.
Charge It
Someday you may be able to charge your smartphone with your clothes. Flexible solar panels have inspired designers to come up with clothes and accessories that can power electronics.
Start-up Wearable Solar is using the technology to make lightweight wired garments that enable the wearer to charge a smartphone up to 50 percent if worn in the sun for a full hour.
And New York-based Voltaic Systems makes a collection of bags that can charge a variety of devices.
You Lookin' at Me?
Using eye-tracking technology, fashion designer Ying Gao has created a set of dresses that move when someone is looking at them.
When the garment is gazed at for a time, tiny motors move parts of it in patterns.
The dresses also glow. covered in photo-luminescent thread or featuring glow-in-the-dark threads that make up the base layer of fabric.
Trackable Couture
Things can get lost pretty easily in those massive walk-in closets.
In his fall 2013 collection, fashion designer Asher Levine included tracking chips that let items be located by the owner using a customized TrackR app.
Levine, who has created looks for Lady GaGa and will.i.am., partnered with Bluetooth solutions company Phone Halo on the chip.
Wearable technology is all the rage, but the craze goes beyond connected eyewear such as Google Glass and smart timepieces such as Apple's iWatch.
Designers are creating apparel, accessories and fitness wear that can do everything from monitor your heart rate to charge your smartphone.
Here's a look at some of the haute tech trends in fashion.
In the future, our own personal air purifier may defend us from all that nasty air outside.
Worn on the wrist, the Hand Tree design sucks up and filters polluted air, and recycles it back into the atmosphere. It was created by Alexandr Kostin, a semifinalist in the Electrolux Design Lab Competition.
Someday you may be able to charge your smartphone with your clothes. Flexible solar panels have inspired designers to come up with clothes and accessories that can power electronics.
Start-up Wearable Solar is using the technology to make lightweight wired garments that enable the wearer to charge a smartphone up to 50 percent if worn in the sun for a full hour.
And New York-based Voltaic Systems makes a collection of bags that can charge a variety of devices.
Using eye-tracking technology, fashion designer Ying Gao has created a set of dresses that move when someone is looking at them.
When the garment is gazed at for a time, tiny motors move parts of it in patterns.
The dresses also glow. covered in photo-luminescent thread or featuring glow-in-the-dark threads that make up the base layer of fabric.
Things can get lost pretty easily in those massive walk-in closets.
In his fall 2013 collection, fashion designer Asher Levine included tracking chips that let items be located by the owner using a customized TrackR app.
Levine, who has created looks for Lady GaGa and will.i.am., partnered with Bluetooth solutions company Phone Halo on the chip.