When the staff of students, makers and craftsmen decided to liven up the dress developed at the Rome Fab Lab with a hundred or so Leds, they had not idea that a few weeks later three scientists would have received the Nobel Physics Prize for having invented the most innovative lighting system … Now the prototype modelled by Alice has become a Nobel Dress!
The prototype of the first intelligent dress has been developed in the Rome Fab Lab with innovative devices such as laser cutters and unusual materials such as Plexiglass and laser-etched wood, along with more traditional materials. The blue and white Leds that adorn the suit were “sewn” into the dress with a soldering iron. The fibre optic, created with a laser, allows the light to produce an interesting effect on the dress.
At the Rome Maker Faire 2014 (October 3-5, 2014), the Phyrtual Innovation Gym Fab Lab, the Sartoria Borghetti and students from the “Fashion and Design” Programme at the A. Diaz School in Rome, in collaboration with CAN, presented the new Phyrtual Fashion Line: clothes that mould traditional dressmaking, youthful ideas and the technological innovation of makers.
Alice modelled the “intelligent” dress at the Rome Maker Faire, an item of clothing that brings together high fashion and high tech. The Leds flash to the beat of the music thanks to the magic produced by an Intel Galileo chipset.
For further information (in Italian):
Maker Fashion: Alice in the Wonderland Gym
