A dress to light up your Christmas

The Danish design duo Diffus have designed and made a haute ‘tech’ couture dress that reacts to the CO2-level in the air by lighting up. It needs to charge for an hour or two first, but after that the sensor incorporated into the dress will be able to measure the level of CO2 in the air. The higher the CO2-level the faster the LEDs on the dress will light up!

This dress is known as the Climate Dress and was designed for the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009. The dress was not really meant to be useable; it was all about the concept. The dress is in essence an art object and as such it has been travelling around the world to be exhibited at fashion shows and museums. Currently it is on show at the Designhuis in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, until the end of January 2011. 

Furthermore it seems there is a Swiss company investigating the possibility of mass-producing this dress!? Don't you think that is funny too? You see, I was wondering whether the sensor would also react to the level of CO2 of somebody wearing the dress would exhale...

After sitting next to a socket for two hours to charge up, just imagine wearing the dress while having an intimate conversation with an admirer at your company's Christmas party... Soon the LEDs on your dress would be lighting up, attracting some laughing glances from your colleagues! But who cares? It is Christmas and YOU will have lit up the party! 
Have a Happy Christmas and an enlightened New Year everyone!!!!