At NYFW an electronic bra with a new twist was unveiled by US clothing studio Chromat, in collaboration with Intel. We are all familiar with sports bras that can measure your heart-rate and respiration, but by incorporating shape memory alloy into the structure the garment can dynamically vent, helping you to remain comfortable. Memory alloy can be bent out of shape but when heated, beyond a certain threshold, the wire will return to its original shape. So in principal in a bra it could be possible to do the venting without digital control, just relying on the body temperature, however, I suspect that his is difficult to do, so we imagine that this is achieved by passing current through the wire to heat it all under digital orders.
The controlling device is Intel’s Curie module which has an enticing mix of: 32-bit Quark processor, accelerometer, gyro, and BT low energy module. This technology is due for general release later in the year.
In addition, to the venting bra, Chromat also showed the “Adrenaline” dress at MADE Fashion Week. This was more avant garde with a 3D framework expanding out of the garment in a defensive action. The components of the framework had all been generated using a 3D printer.
Source: Wearable