Flammable Ego: Philips Lights Up Your Inner Self

This ain't such an unexpected maneuver as Philips mentioned about the SKIN Probe Project months ago. The concept is based on the idea that it "examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing – the shift from ‘ intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’ products and technologies."

Dailymail.co.uk reports on Philips's project, which became the "Bubelle" dress. On the technical side, it's worth noting that the fashion item was designed with two layers. One of them is packed with the latest technology, using biometric sensors to detect someone's emotions, while the other, an outer textile layer receives the projection of the inner state in funky colors.

According to Philips, these dresses "show emotive technology and how the body and the near environment can use pattern and colour change to interact and predict the emotional state." Therefore, each emotion you might experience, such as stress, fear or arousal will affect the body's temperature and consequently, the sweat levels that generate the light which changes the pattern and color of your beautiful gown. Does that mean this dress is going to explode if exposed to "extreme" sensations? Oh, and that's something you'll never see on an Amish chick!

Moreover "You could programme the material so that it turned red if you were angry or stressed, or green when you're calm. We were interested to see how technology may affect our lives in the future and to provoke debate. Would the idea of emotional clothing be something we will wear in 10 years time?", Ingrid Bal from Philips Design added for Daily Mail.

However, Philips is also working on another remarkable project of an electronic tattoo, which is going to " expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body". And that's what they like to call "aesthetic transformations between lovers"...or Satanesque group markings that will subconsciously become visible and create mass hysteria - just kidding!

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