I began developing Vital
Threads Biofeedback Apparel in 2007 to open design and fashion to dynamic new forms of
self awareness, personal expression and interpersonal communication. Typically, we are
all vastly limited in our expressive outlet to engage a collective
awareness. Vital Threads Biofeedback Apparel gives the wearer the
freedom to express his or her personal vantage on a moment by moment
basis.
A wearable device that
dynamically reflects your psycho-emotional response to the
world, promoting internal states to be externalized and made into
interactive forms of expression. Measuring the
galvanic skin response (a marker of emotional arousal commonly
used in lie detector tests),
this
device’s lights turn from blue to red as the wearer becomes
aroused. Ask the wearer an evocative question and reveal his or
her inner Truth.
Truth TV!
Check out the Truth segment on
MakeTV (episode 107) airing on
PBS stations around the U.S.
Truth for
Sale! Truth Wristband Kit
- $44.95
- more details here -
Below is a video of my brother,
Ian, wearing the Truth Wristband while I ask him some questions to see
what sorts of things get his Truth meter going. Note that it takes 1-2
seconds for the psychodynamic response to be expressed in the skin
response.
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Wearables that detect
your
heart beat and externalize it as pulses of light. Sensors read the
wearer's
EKG and produce flashes of light in time with his/her own heart.
Wearing the shirt gives an intense feeling of life and rhythm, while
at the same time reminding you of your electrical and mechanical
roots. It's truly amazing how much the heart responds to social
interaction and yet is almost entirely ignored as it meters our life.
Pulsing with every beat, the Heart Wristband also changes color
from blue to red as your heart rate slows down or speeds up. Modify
it to be worn as a wristband, belt buckle or even as
a medallion... put a little heart into your bling!
More
technical details coming soon.
Thinking Cap
A hat that measures the wearer’s brain activity from the wearer's
scalp
EEG and projects changes in neuronal synchrony on modular
light arrays. Highly focused attention increases the brain’s beta
and gamma oscillations and turns the frontal light modules red,
while entering a meditative state produces large alpha rhythms and
turns the rear light modules red.
