Be your own battery in a solar powered dress
Surely the last word in sexy green geek chic, the Day-for-Night dress (pictured) is made up of 448 white circuit boards -- or more, depending on the modesty of the wearer!
Made as an hommage to Paco Rabanne and as a 'celebration of the beauty of electronics', each tile in the dress is designed in such a way as to accommodate a solar cell, a RGB LED, or a photocell. In non-dork-talk, that basically means it has the potential to pick up solar energy during the day so (presumably) the unfortunate wearer can be used as a decorative battery once night falls. Or that's how I read it anyway. Isn't that taking the philosophy of The Matrix a little too far?
The Day-for-Night dress made its debut at the Siggraph Fashion Show (home of all things geeky and wearable). Let's hope it'll lead to a rise in affordable, solar clothing in future!
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