Some years ago, Fabrican created an instant, sprayable, non-woven fabric and was developed further through a collaboration between Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, London (UK). When spraying the liquid onto your body, the liquid transforms into fabric. Each spray can sends thousands of cotton fibers splattering against your skin. The fibers then bend together and form a garment that peels away when you undress (so washing your clothes is no longer needed). Since the fibres are delivered in a diffused form, other elements, like perfumes, pigments or treatments, can be easily added.

Source: NextNature ; We make money not art

For his project Intimacy, Dutch artists Daan Roosegaarde created a dress made of flexible e-foils which can be either opaque or transparent depending on the currents flowing through them. Intimacy was developed by Studio Roosegaarde, V2_Lab and fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra

The Intimacy dress takes our notion personal space to a next level: the closer someone approaches, the more transparent the dress becomes. As such, the garment becomes a sort of second skin that allows the body to become an ‘interface’.

If you want to learn more, check out the interview with Daan Roosegaarde

Source: NextNature, V2, Fashioning Technology

PSFK.com features an article in which a new hi-tech Pajama design is described. ome. The Exmobaby pajamas is developed by Exmovere Holdings, Inc. and are made to help avert sudden infant death syndrome: “the pajamas have sensors built into the fabric which monitor a babies’ heart beat, emotional state and behavior. The information is then relayed to parents, who can keep a virtual eye on their babies while they sleep.”

For more information, see: http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/parents-can-rest-easy-with-new-baby-pjs.html

I recently posted an item concerning the use of coffee beans as an ingredient for a new fabric. Guess what; you can combine your coffee fabric with a cloud of milky clothes.

According the Wall Street  Journal Online:

“Per Aage Sivertsen, winner of this spring’s Oslo Fashion Week designer award (Naløyet) in February and creative mind behind the Norwegian “eco-lux” brand FIN, plans to make part of next year’s spring/summer collection from a gauze-like fabric based 100% on milk proteins. Making fabric from milk frees up land that would otherwise have been used to grow cotton, a crop vilified for its intense water consumption and high pesticide use.”

Source: PSFK , Wall Street Journal Online

A company in Taiwan has recently turned the well-know coffee bean into a “super high-tech eco fabric.” The process, created by Singtex Industrial Co.,  can produce two shirts from the amount of coffee grounds needed to make just “one medium cup of coffee”. The fabric is also said to be “quick-drying, odour controlling,  and UV-protective.”

Clothing  is seen as an expression of one’s identity or as a symbol of the social group/culture one is belonging to, so why not wearing a smart, flex-image fabric that displays pieces of ones social network directly on clothes.

The OSMO Custom Social Network Wearable allows participants to customize clothing with smart, flex-image fabric.

The OSMO wearable is not only a wearable piece of your personal voice but it’s also connected, networked and alive. It communicates with your iPhone applications, detects “friends” from your Loopt™ profile and picks up and displays images from other participants in close proximity.

Source: Talk2myShirt, Creating Space