[Wear-Hard] Active garments...

[Oliver Amft]

Maybe this book is helpful:

Smart textiles for medicine and healthcare: Materials, systems and 
applications, Edited by L Van Langenhove

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=888

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/1420044486/L_Van_Langenhove/Smart_Textiles_For_Medicine_And_Healthcare_Materials_Systems_And_Applications.html

Oliver


Aaron Toney wrote:
>     This is a bit of an open request for help.
> 
>     I am looking for help compiling references for smart garments / 
> garment integrated devices where the garment actively changes. I am 
> having trouble finding good quality examples that have been published 
> with a detailed description of the garment and in a citable location.
> 
>     For example for garments that change shape I have only been able to 
> find four suitable references despite having seen a number of projects 
> over the years; The Wearable Folding Display, the Fashion victims 
> exhibit in 2004, or the Kinetic electronic garments by Berzowska and 
> Coelho, and the Mystique dress by cute-circuit. Everything else I have 
> found has been like the work of Hussein Chalayan. Very interesting, but 
> not published with a description or in a place that will be archived and 
> thus can be cited.
> 
>     So I am asking the wearhard community to please sent me pointers to 
> any works that you may be aware of. If I can get enough feedback to 
> warrant it I will post a compiled list of the garments back to the list.
> 
>     Thank you in advance for your help,
> 
>         Aaron Toney
> 
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