“I find it difficult to express my emotions. My accessories are helping me measure how much I can reveal.”
That was the voiceover at Hussein Chalayan as a model walked in a darkened room with a projector embedded in her foam belt. She wore sunglasses that measure heart rate, breathing and brain activity, and the results were splashed on a wall in real time.
After Google Glass, it’s come to this: a microphone on the bridge of your shades that can tell you when your breathing quickens because of fear of terrorism, repressed emotions or nervousness.
Chalayan collaborated with Intel to create the glasses as a stress management tool using the Intel Curie module that gathers biometric data, used to infer stress.
Intel is to display studies using the glasses at London’s Design Museum in November for the exhibition “Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World.”
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The clothes were not as disquieting as the fashion-tech experiment: mostly clever plays on striped shirts, judo and army jackets and cargo pants.
Most were loose and billowing, culminating with puffed-up nylon tops and dresses. In a season of sleeve details, Chalayan’s were slashed open and hung freely. They looked chic in satin, and shouldn’t cause undue stress.