Solar-powered dresses are so
two years ago. These days, dames in the know are all about that piezoelectric material, evidenced by the incredibly flashy Piezing. Dreamed up and designed by Amanda Parkes, this piece of garb is all set to steal the show at the 2ndSkin expo in San Francisco, and according to
CNET, it features electricity-generating fabrics around the joints of the elbows and hips. When the wearer walks, bends or gets downright nasty on the dance floor, the mechanical stress conjures up energy which is stored as voltage in a built-in battery where it can presumably be used later for charging your favorite handheld gizmo. Sure gets our electrons flowing.
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textually, image courtesy of James Patten]
Read - 2ndSkin expo
Read - CNET article on Piezing
posted April 28th 2008 8:01AM
Is this the girl from Terminator the series?
nope. i'll assume you're reffering to "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles".
in that show, the terminator is Summer Glau. she's in Firefly, Serenity, The 4400.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1132359/
A younger Hillary Clinton.
Flashpoint: I wouldn't say no to that. :p
I wonder how much they payed her to wear that.
totally hot
That dress is cool...but it would look better if it was stained, crumpled and forgotten at the end of my bed.
second
gigety
would you?
What about good old fashioned NYLON and capturing all that juicy static electricity?
Could probably run a TASER with volts to spare!!
You could probably get some interesting artistic effects by applying the electricity directly, instead of charging a battery. E.g., you could use it to run LEDs illuminating the moving parts of the body—that'd look interesting on a stage dancer.
You might need an auxiliary battery for that, though.
I think the model must be the designer's daughter:
"Come on honey, smile for the camera"
"ughh. Can we just hurry this up! This is soooo embarassing!"
Capricorn 15's. Year of the city - 2274. Carousel begins.
Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!
And the cake is a lie!
Too late? Are we done with that phrase?
Well the quote seemed to go well. It was that or
"You're beautiful. Let's have sex."
Man, was that Logan a smooth talker or what? I guess I could have gone with...
"I am more than machine. More than man. More than a fusion of the two. Don't you agree? Wait for the winds. Then my birds sing. And the deep grottos whisper my name. Box... Box... Box... "
But it is sorta hard to quote a movie from 1976 and get away with it on the Interwebs.
I would charge her batteries right up.
"When the wearer walks, bends or gets downright nasty on the dance floor..."
Damn those are some electric moves!
No? Ok, I'm gone.
I'd bang her, and she could keep the dress on. It'll be electrifying!
more like sterilizing
Kinda looks like something that Penny wore on Lost in Space or Judy in The Jetsons. Finally the future is here!
Does it guarantee a shock with each doorknob you touch?
Wow! @girl
Watt the *uck?!
so if your cell phone died it would actually be an excuse to have spontaneous sex... awesome. Charge it faster, uh hu, uh hu, yea baby, oh, yea, charge com plete!!! ah....
Ironically, she doesn't appear to be amped up...
Takes static cling to a whole new level...
She looks better than the dress, but then again that ain't saying much. More hot asian spokes models please!
That's a really cool idea. Hopefully stuff like this makes it more into the mainstream.
Probably would cost a fortune though. I remember thinking "hey, I should snag a solar charger for my portable." Then realizing the solar charger costs way more than just plugging in the wall, I'd have to use it A LOT before it would pay for itself.
Rechargeable dildos. That's what this was really designed for.
That's what I call an awful colour.