Dress lit up with 24,000 LEDs, perfect for your next formal rave
By Laura June 
posted Nov 13th 2009 2:53PM
posted Nov 13th 2009 2:53PM
In general, we've found the whole LED dress craze to be kind of a snoozer -- after all, the results are usually pretty tacky, in our opinions. It seems, however, that all that has just changed -- with the introduction of Cute Circuit's Galaxy Dress, which is made of silk and has 24,000 LEDs measuring just 2 by 2-millimeters each embroidered onto its surface. As you can see from the photograph, the dress is also quite classic and beautiful -- not your usual raver's delight. To make the dress lighter and more flexible than your average light-enhanced couture, the designers used layers of organza crinoline and silk chiffon, and they power the dress with many small iPod batteries, which are light and easily hidden in the dress. The Galaxy Dress is currently on exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago -- but you can check it out for yourself in the video after the break.
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Doesnt Disney Already do this for their electrical Parade
Looks like a walking Christmas Tree !!!
I think Jason in the background will take care of her annoying dress for us all.
I think it looks more like the dress Jane Jetson wore on "The Jetsons" in one particular episode that I can't remember because I saw it about 20 years ago.
Wow. That is so friggin' cool! I'd love to make pants and/or a shirt of of this! Just - wow!
What happens when someone steals your dress for the LED's?
I CAN HAS RAVE TIMES NOW OONTZ OONTZ?!
Looks like Jason is on it.
Chances we'll see this in next years DEFCON B&W Ball?
Yes.
I would very much like my wife in the future to wear this as her wedding dress.
Hah! You think you get an opinion on what your bride wears at the wedding.
Good luck.
Hah! You think you're ever going to get married.
Good luck.
Harsh.
@Brad. I didn't say I expected my bride to wear this, I said I would very much like for her to. Two very different things.
@John. It's okay. I have a very hot girlfriend so comments like Kieran's don't bother me =P
I'm just joshing Nate, but we're now going to require proof of your hot girlfriend.
Pics or it didn't happen...
Thank goodness for google image search with site:photobucket.com as part of my query.. I always have a hot girlfriend to prove to my internet compatriots!
A lot of people go to raves lit...
Whatever girl puts this on automatically goes into the Guiness Book as world's biggest attention whore.
That's another record for Paris Hilton!?
Enlightened puke.
The nerd in me says this dress requires about 24 amps of current -- I hope it's fire proof.
Nerd in me says they are running severla diffrent circuits so it doesn't burst into flames, although that would be funny as hell
well, sure, if you put them in parallel, but if you put them in series you would have high voltage but low current. they probably had a bit of both.
That is awesome!
I love how you can see the big power supply on the floor behind it.
ipod batteries, huh?
i guess when they lose their capacity, you have to send the dress back to the tailor?
Now we can just display a thinner, more attractive body on our clothes.
in the nude :)
Lady Ga-Ga's prom dress?
Probably not. It's way too subtle.
Also polarized, so when the batteries go dead, the dress is transparent. 8^)
"At midnight, I turn into a nudist."
More like Imogen Heap...
Can you imagine the ad revenues? You could have a whole series of changeable ad displays.
Talking about being blinded by `beauty`...
This would have given Nikola Tesla a huge turn on.
DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATH IN THE BACKGROUND OF THAT PIC?!!?!?!?
all the other Jasons have been suttle and kinda funny when i found them.
this one is HOlyFukINGSHIT THAT IS SCARY
The Jasons' this year were so subtle and almost unknown until you got to this one. Congrats; it always makes me lol when I find them hiding!
This one is seriously messed up and terrifying to me.
I smell a new Lady GaGa video coming out of this.
Colorful LEDs are Colorful.
Now that the boring prototype is done... time for an LED bikini!
I wonder what people would want to display there :)
Who wants to be Lady GaGa's going to wear this for her Monster Ball Tour?
Yes, I remember when this exhibit opened and I saw the dress in November....of 2008. Behind the times much?
Is that Jason in the backround?
Quick! Hide this before Bjork gets wind of it!
Youtube some RABBIT IN THE MOON videos...you'll see the groom's version.