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by on October 21, 2006
This is what designer Berzowska from Montreal calls Kukkia:
... the magical clothes a Canadian researcher has developed, clothes with animated flowers on its neckline, shirt sleeves that make sounds in tune with your body language, and a hemline with a mind of its own.
This dress will be part of a workshop in Australia next year - here are some first information about how it works:
Flower petals are made of silk and felt, and contain thin wires of Nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium. When the wire heats it shrinks and pulls the petals together, closing the flower. As it cools down, the wire relaxes and the petals open. The system is run on rechargeable lithium polymer batteries which are embedded in pouches in the dress.
via fibre2fashion
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