queen's new clothes
Inspired by the Danish tale Emperor's New Clothes and Lady Gaga's Orbit dress, we designed and implemented a wearable computing costume, Queen's New Clothes, which appears plain to naked eyes but exhibits changing patterns on photos taken at different time and location. The project explores the dual status of fashion in both the physical world and the digital world. It accentuates the dynamically changing nature of fashion and shows how we can use this fast changing nature of fashion as an embodied visual communication tool in the digital age. The costume is consisted of three elliptical, inter-woven orbits where the projector units are mounted upon and pointed inward to the body. A central light sensing unit is created with photo transistor to detect incoming camera flash and gives signal to trigger the projectors instantly. The patterns projected can be decorating the body as well as asserting branding or personal statements.
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