Don’t breathe on her
The LED array on this dress is not just decorative. In fact, it’s designed to indicate the carbon dioxide levels in the immediate vicinity of the wearer:
A wonderful collaboration between diffus.dk, Alexandra Institute, The Danish Design School and embroidery company Forster Rohner has resulted in this beautifully-detailed haute-tech dress fit for the runway.
The CO2 dress monitors the CO2 levels in a given environment and visualizes the data in real time with a flickering of light patterns. The LEDs are carefully stitched into the lovely embroidery of the dress.
I wonder if the decision to make the dress a charcoal gray [was] a purposeful one made by the collaborators to symbolize our declining air quality.
Yeah, because you can just see all that CO2 in the air.
Kay Dennison »
25 December 2009 · 12:47 am
I kind of like it!!!!
Kay Dennison »
25 December 2009 · 12:47 am
And oh yeah, Merry Christmas, Chaz!!!!!!
unimpressed »
25 December 2009 · 2:17 am
I do hope the light strings are outdoor rated, otherwise the dress is going to be a b…. to clean or have cleaned.
David Fleck »
25 December 2009 · 8:30 am
I’ll bet it pairs nicely with horsehair undergarments.