14 DAY TRIAL // If you thought the Fabric Pen was intriguing, you'll probably be interested in the idea submitted during the Electrolux Design Lab competition by Karolin Kõrge, an undergraduate student in the Department of Product Design at The Estonian Academy of Arts.
You see, while Ingrida Kazėnaitė was putting together the idea for a Fabric Pen that can patch up torn clothing, Kõrge was thinking bigger.
Her project describes a device, an appliance really, that can recycle old clothing, from the most worn down rags to the newest garments you may want to dispose of for whatever reason.
The name of the invention is Zero Waste. It is a wardrobe system that will remake clothes into newer, more fashionable ones, though it's you who decides what's fashionable and what isn't.
A scanner will look you over, determining your measurements, after which the fabric is processed and remade into whatever duds you sought to own.
You can, of course, just have the printer cough up new clothes without destroying old ones, but you will need to supply raw materials somehow. The details are scarce, however, since this is still mostly just concept art whose practical incarnation engineers and scientists will have to figure out.