Clothes with sensors - a highly sophisticated concept of interactive clothing whereby the body's physical and emotional state triggers the transfer of personalized memory back to the wearer. Wireless sensors and bio-sensing devices are embedded into garments that record the wearer's temperature, heart rate, galvanic skin response (moisture) and rate of respiration. The data is sent via the Internet to a sophisticated database which in turns sends back messages to the clothing. The messages may take the form of voice recordings or songs broadcast from speakers sewn into a hood or shoulder seams, or scrolling text on a LED array woven into fabric, or video and photographic imagery.
For more information
Barbara Layne, Studio subTela, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec
Janis Jefferies, Digital Studios, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K.
High-resolution photos and video available on request. Email renee.dunk@concordia.ca
