weathered

Group Members
Sam Dunne
Greig Robinson
Wiston Wong

Our project was based around the idea of the experience of walking in different weather conditions. Our ideas from the beginning focused on the idea of walking in the rain. From there we concentrated on trying to make it more enjoyable and ‘magic’.

Weathered is a concept using lumalive technology developed by Philips and embroidered micro rain and temperature sensors. The jacket is black by default, but when wet a pattern begins to emerge revelling an abstract urban scene. The pattern is revelled only on the areas that come in contact with the water. The colour changes according to the temperature outside. The colour spectrum could be anything from red to blue depending on the conditions.

A development of this concept was to enable the user to save a pattern that they particularly like. Two different patterns created by weather conditions can be saved and there is also a defect button that will take the jacket back to its original colour.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk For Lumalive technology

www.research.philips.com/newscenter/ archive/2006/060901-lumalive.html

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