Take a deep breath and exhale. Feeling a little tight around the middle? Your corset could be sending you a message about air pollution.
Designer Kristin O’Friel has created a garment that reacts to the carbon dioxide levels in the environment and offers physical feedback by tightening the bodice in relation to air quality.
“I wanted to create an experience that changed our perception of environmental data,” says O’Friel, “by making a wearable device that engaged with this information in a direct and tangible way.”
The CO2RSET has a carbon dioxide sensor sewn into the garment. It responds to CO2 readings by tightening or loosening itself when the levels of the gas in the atmosphere increase or decrease, respectively. O’Friel designed it as a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts.
O’Friel says she chose a corset because it cinches the waist and forces wearers to breathe shallowly. “It’s contextually appropriate as the wearable interface to air quality,” she says.
The corset uses a TGS4161 sensor from a company called Figaro and mini gear motors from Solarbotics for the actuation.
The garment may not be very practical, but its a fun way to introduce the idea of wearable computing and open it up to possibilities.
Take a closer look at the corset:
More at Kristin O’Friel’s Flickr stream
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Photos: Kristin O’Friel
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