The crowd at the 2nd Skin fashion show at San Francisco's Exploratorium on Friday night eagerly anticipates the latest advances in fashion technology. Some of the trends included a dress that reacts to pollutants in the air and headgear that gives audio-visual feedback to chewing motions.
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Takehito Etani not only paraded his creation, The Masticator, down the catwalk, but had a booth set up beforehand to demonstrate how the device works. Here, he is eating a TV dinner to show how the device creates sound while also keeping track of the number of chews he takes with each bite.
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If you are sensitive to smoke and other pollutants in the air and wish to be alerted to their presence in a fashionable way, this is the skirt for you. Stephanie Sandstrom's EPA Dress is designed with sensors embedded in the material that sense pollutants in the air and respond by wrinkling the fabric.
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Soft circuitry was a dominant force at the 2nd Skin fashion show on Friday. Leah Buechley has teamed up with local artists to create outfits with fashionable sensors. These sensors pick up movement and transmit that data to a computer which, as a final result, creates sound.
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Not all the fashion pieces were tech-focused at the 2nd Skin fashion show. Here, recycled newspapers were the material selected to create a dress fit for royalty.
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Want to charge your mobile phone and light up the night? This is the purse for you.
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Sibling team Beau and Jay Silver demonstrate their latest project, ok2touch. The jacket on the left is designed to allow someone to make music by merely touching the person wearing it.
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LA denizens may rejoice in this dress created by Scott Tallenger. This "Norma Desmond" dress not only features photos of the movie star but also video clips from the film in which she starred, Sunset Boulevard.
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A fashion-inspired version of Swan Lake was performed down the catwalk complete with two dancers.
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CNET News.com's own Kara Tsuboi models Massage Me, a wearable game controller that enables a person to massage someone while playing games on a PlayStation. This multifunctional vest was created by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi.
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Sha Sha Higby enthralls the audience with a performance down the catwalk that incorporated layers of wood, silk, paper, ceramic and gold leaf.
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