Day-for-Night solar-powered geek dress

It may not have quite the instant geek-appeal of the pong dress, or the pain-inflicting potential of the self-defense dress, but the Day-for-Night solar-powered dress designed by Despina Papadopoulos should turn a few heads nonetheless. Made up of over 444 white circuit boards (depending on how long the dress is), the garment charges itself while in daylight, with RGB LEDs on each tile set to change color when the wearer's in low lit conditions. What's more, the dress also packs a 2.4GHz RF link, which can be used to receive commands from a computer to program how the tiles behave. Future plans for the dress include adding additional components like a GPS, accelerometer, and OLED displays, as well as publishing the complete source code and schematics so you put on your own geek couture hat. The dress was first unveiled at the recent SIGGRAPH conference but if you missed it there you can currently catch it on display at Chicago's A + D Gallery until October 21st.

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[Steven Vasquez @ Oct 4th 2006 4:45PM]

Hello, my eyes are up here.

[Rick Lyon @ Oct 4th 2006 5:22PM]

Hmm yea, I can see the point of this??

[Mojo_Yugen @ Oct 4th 2006 5:29PM]

"...which can be used to receive commands from a computer to program how the tiles behave..."

So now your geek friends can turn your dress invisible at parties.

[Robyn Wright @ Oct 4th 2006 6:18PM]

I like it!

[Daniel Ross @ Oct 4th 2006 6:27PM]

It has the approximate aesthetics of a burlap sack. Except it's a SOLAR burlap sack! Whee!

So. Totally. Worthless.

[_habit_ @ Oct 4th 2006 6:27PM]

But ... girls don't exist on the intranet, and will thus never see this dress :(.




They (whoever they are) won't make much money off of this!

[wto605 @ Oct 4th 2006 7:32PM]

It almost makes we want to be a girl...

but then agian... If I were engadget wouldn't be my primary news source.

[Ferny @ Oct 4th 2006 10:42PM]

anybody else thought of the possibility of making it do squared b00bs?

[Tommy Mang @ Oct 5th 2006 4:08AM]

This brings a whole new meaning to "that girl is hot" ;-)

[Lita @ Oct 5th 2006 11:50AM]

Firstly, I'm a girl and am on this here series of tubes known as the intranets.
Secondly, while I'd hardly call engadget my "primary news source" - because engadget can harely be called news - I am a frequent reader. We do exist. Really.
Thirdly, is there any chance we can get a pic of that dress in low light conditions? I'd love to see what the RGB LEDs look like in action and what the original creator had in mind in it's construction.

[SunJet @ Oct 9th 2006 2:10AM]

Crazy stuff