The use of smart fabrics has already been considered for a wide range of uses, including clothes which can warm the wearer with electronically conducting materials.One other suggested use is as a performance device - where the state and shape of the fabric is controlled by someone other than the wearer. Soldiers' uniforms could soon use the special yarn, which would be woven directly into the clothing.
Although the garments designed by the university are still years from being made available, prototype designs have been developed to show the concepts in action. Ms Berzowska's ideas will be presented at the Smart Fabrics 2013 conference this week in San Francisco. At the smart clothes range Erica hope to make their debut these fabrics can change their shape and colour as you move and can even charge your phone by charging it in a fitted kangaroo pouch 'Karma Chameleon' project weaves electronic fabrics into clothes. The material allows for the storage of energy from the body. These include garments that change shape and change colour and also charge phones.
Smart clothes that change their colour and shape according to the wearer's movement have been developed by Canadian experts. The 'Karma Chameleon' project, launched by Concordia University in Montreal, weaves electronic fabric into clothes allowing the storage of energy from the body. The new lines by the team behind the innovation include a dress which can change shape and colour and a shirt which can charge a mobile phone.
Clothes that change their colour and shape according to the wearer's movement have been developed by Canadian experts. The Acrobat Dress is a transformative garment from the prototype collection Prof Joanna Berzowska, of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, said it would be a long time before the clothes hit the high street. She said: 'We won't see such garments in stores for another 20 or 30 years, but the practical and creative possibilities are exciting.
The fashion house our goal is to create garments that can transform in complex and surprising ways these are far beyond reversible jackets, or shirts that change colour in response to heat. 'That’s why the project is called Karma Chameleon
'Prof Berzowska said the major innovation of this research project is the ability to embed electronic or computer functions within the fibre itself. Rather than being simply attached to the textile, the electronic components are woven into these new composite fibres. The fibres consist of multiple layers of polymers, which, when stretched and drawn out to a small diameter, begin to interact with each other. As Prof Joanna Berzowska said the major innovation of this research project is the ability to embed these electronic or computer functions within the fibre itself.
The use of smart fabrics has already been considered for a wide range of uses, including clothes which can warm the wearer with electronically conducting materials.One other suggested use is as a performance device - where the state and shape of the fabric is controlled by someone other than the wearer. Soldiers' uniforms could soon use the special yarn, which would be woven directly into the clothing.
Although the garments designed by the university are still years from being made available, prototype designs have been developed to show the concepts in action. Ms Berzowska's ideas will be presented at the Smart Fabrics 2013 conference this week in San Francisco. At the smart clothes range Erica hope to make their debut these fabrics can change their shape and colour as you move and can even charge your phone by charging it in a fitted kangaroo pouch 'Karma Chameleon' project weaves electronic fabrics into clothes. The material allows for the storage of energy from the body. These include garments that change shape and change colour and also charge phones.
Smart clothes that change their colour and shape according to the wearer's movement have been developed by Canadian experts. The 'Karma Chameleon' project, launched by Concordia University in Montreal, weaves electronic fabric into clothes allowing the storage of energy from the body. The new lines by the team behind the innovation include a dress which can change shape and colour and a shirt which can charge a mobile phone.
Clothes that change their colour and shape according to the wearer's movement have been developed by Canadian experts. The Acrobat Dress is a transformative garment from the prototype collection Prof Joanna Berzowska, of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, said it would be a long time before the clothes hit the high street. She said: 'We won't see such garments in stores for another 20 or 30 years, but the practical and creative possibilities are exciting.
The fashion house our goal is to create garments that can transform in complex and surprising ways these are far beyond reversible jackets, or shirts that change colour in response to heat. 'That’s why the project is called Karma Chameleon
'Prof Berzowska said the major innovation of this research project is the ability to embed electronic or computer functions within the fibre itself. Rather than being simply attached to the textile, the electronic components are woven into these new composite fibres. The fibres consist of multiple layers of polymers, which, when stretched and drawn out to a small diameter, begin to interact with each other. As Prof Joanna Berzowska said the major innovation of this research project is the ability to embed these electronic or computer functions within the fibre itself.
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