May 22, 2006
Balance/Imbalance and Presence/Absence
Two of the selected projects from the FutureFashionEvent which took place in Pisa on Saturday, and which related to cellphones. [via WMMNA]
-- Balance/Imbalance shirt by Sonali Sridha:
On wearing your phone and keys, the garment is pulled down and covers the body. Every time the keys or phone are taken out to be used, the shirt skews in one direction leaving the wearer with a sense of imbalance. A purely mechanical solution to this notion of feeling awkward without your devices.
-- Presence, Absense jacket by Sonali Sridha:
The jacket has a set of snaps sewed into them. These correspond with a set each on the wearer's wallet, keys and phone.
On putting your devices into the pockets and snapping them shut the devices are physically connected to the jacket. The jacket has 3 LED’s that stop blinking when these connections are completed. The LED’s move into a panic mode when any of these are absent by indicating with a rapid blink. Every minute or so the circuit does a quick check on all the components and makes sure they are all present and this is viewed when the LED’s dim slowly, reassuring their presence.
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