There are two time-demanding issues when managing travelers at an airport – the check in of luggage and the security gate. Concerning the latter, perhaps we will see a decrease of time elapsed in the near future. If you have ever thought about better solutions regarding the security checkpoints at the airports – then apparently you were not alone. The international airport of Dubai has come up with a high-technological way of controlling the security of their departing passengers. This new method can be explained as a tunnel which, while walking through it, will scan your face by the help of no less than 80 cameras. This tunnel is also decorated as an aquarium, thus encourages the travelers to look around and thereby increases the capability of the cameras.
When approaching this technology, which almost feels like a decent science-fiction movie, one can tell that this method indeed has the possibility to revolutionize the way of travelling by flight. Facial recognition is actually already being used in some airports around the world, but that is more like photographing the traveler, thus not improves the process as whole. If some time can be spared for the travelers by decreasing the lines of security controls can be seen as one positive feature, the fact that airports will have the possibility to re-organize their personnel and thus become more cost-effective is another.
Through a business perspective, the most important for such an installment is the fact that it eventually can replace the current security process. In my opinion, facial recognition is a substitute for showing a passport, and as long as it is working, it would probably out-compete the current way. For instance, having pictures of a person in real time instead of a quite unrecognizable 4-5 years old one, is of a great advantage, thus might improve the overall security. One problem with this is of course that every single airport will have to adopt to this technology, otherwise a traveler will have to bring the passport nevertheless. I can assume that airports will have to establish some kind of collaborations regarding such expensive (I suppose) investment, since the budget most likely differs a lot from airport to airport.
To summarize, this could be a great success in the future. According to the article, the first installment will take place during the next year already, which almost sounds too good to be true. In the beginning phase, it will most likely work as complement to the original security check, thus will take additional time. But from the security perspective, it could indeed be considered as interesting right from the start.
Have you ever thought that your clothes would assimilate with your body?
Just imagine, your all-natural reactions, behavior and processes are now all captivated by the shoes that you are wearing every day, some T-shirt, dress. Can you come with the idea that your favorite sweater might change a color every time you catch a flu or that you would be able to see the ignorance or anger of the person not through his facial mimics, but due to the movement of the fabrics in his or her shirt?
In the near future, it can be used not only as the protection from the outside of your body factors, but as a real part of you that compliments you, your physical processes and would be an integral part of the communication with the surrounding world.
Nowadays, such assumption is already not a fantasy, but a real fact. There are already created numerous examples of the clothes that seem to not only provide comfort, but to visualize and assist the hidden physical and mental processes of the human body.
The well-known fact is that, people have always been demonstrating their individuality through the clothes they are wearing, in order to create a specific social position in the conversation with others. In fact, the innovations in technology have provided us with the opportunity to express ourselves in a broader way.
The use of technology in fashion is now no more a tool to produce the clothes, but a new way to execute the human’s inside vision.
The newly invented fabrics and materials can correspond and show up the human’s emotions and condition. In result, a person wearing such clothes will be already unique due to the uniqueness of his or her own emotions and feelings, because the inner world of each human is already exclusive.
Therefore, as well, the high-tech clothes would be able to open a real conversation with a human body itself and due to physical factors and sensory processing the clothes would be able to interact with the body and, consequently, transform itself to satisfy the wearer.
Spider Dress
The Dutch designer Anouk Whipprecht through the combination of fashion and robotics has created a new realm of personal space. Due to the ability of biosensors to catch any evidence of a dress wearer feeling threatened, the robotic spider legs, built-in dress, create a “spider attack” position.
Social Escape Dress
As well, as Anouk Whipprecht, the designers from Urban Armor have been working on the problem of the personal space within a big city. In fact, the Social Escape Dress is equipped with GSR sensors (Galvanic Skin Response) that indicate a strong feeling of stress. As a result, the dress would emit a cloud of fog from the collar, if the wearer feels stressed and uncomfortable in any surrounding.
(NO)WHERE (NOW)HERE
By experimenting with the smart fabrics, robotics, sensory processing and eye-tracking technology, the Montreal designer Ying Gao got a chance to create the garment, which is complimenting its “user”. It is a series of two dresses, which have the ability to change the form and light up, if someone is looking at the person wearing these dresses. According to The Culture Trip: “It is normally the wearer who notices your gaze, not the clothes themselves, but this innovative creation has everyone’s head turning”.
Swarovski gemstone headpiece
The creative group “The Unseen”, headed by Lauren Bowker, has always been mixing the fashion and science. The Lauren Bowker, as the press calls her, “The Alchemist” has come with the invention of the ink that changes the color of the item it is applied on. Among a large majority of her inventions, like the hair dye that changes color, the headpiece created for Swarovski is the one that is acting in accordance with human body condition. The headpiece is constructed by the gemstones, which have been specially grown and later covered by the specific ink, created by Lauren, to become real indicators of the shift of amount of energy of the human. In fact, when the gemstones “feel” the transition of the condition of the human, they change color. As the Dezeen has stated: “Excitement, nerves, and fear all produce different colours; and quicker shifts in emotion create more dramatic patterns.”
Bubelle emotion sensing dress
About a decade ago, Philips have been experimenting with the combination of smart electronics and fashion and, in fact, there was created one of the first garments that react to the wearer’s emotions. The dress is covered with numerous LEDs that illuminate and change colors due to the emotional condition of the human. Such changes are caught by the bottom layer of the dress, in which there have been installed the skin sensors.
Caress of the Gaze
Behnaz Farahi has developed an interactive garment. The 3D printed collar seems to become an artificial skin that due to built-in camera is able to catch the gaze of the other person and react on it by the lifelike motions. The garment is equipped with the Shape Memory Alloy actuators, which work as a muscle system for this 3D printed “skin”. The idea is to create a conversation not only “person to person”, but “person to person to clothes”.
To conclude, the technological innovation and, in fact, technological symbiosis with fashion have given us the ability to create a new way of expressing ourselves and interacting with the outer world through demonstrating our real inner processes. There, the clothes become a medium between a wearer and the surrounding. Such processes are assisting a human to enter a different level of interaction with the others, where the garment might become an equal conversational partner for people and the world.
But is it the thing that a person wants? There, step up millions of ethical questions. Would we be able to uncover our thoughts, our mood, health status, etc.? Would we be able to sacrifice the privacy of our own bodies and show up the real “I”?
Textile and clothing recycling is a beneficial activity for both sides – we have companies which are providing us with needed clothes and on the other hand we have customers with specific needs, tastes and preferences. Each year we buy lots of new clothes which are more trendy or just because we like them, not because we really need them. People throw away their old clothes every year statistically each American throws away 37 kilograms of textile and clothing per year! Only 15 % of this number gets donated or recycled. Why shouldn’t we make it 100 % recycled?
Evrnu is a startup with specific social purpose. This company is registered in the State of Washington, USA. By 2014 Evrnu started collecting money from investors. Evrnu makes cotton recyclable. People create 12 millions tons of textiles each year. Millions tons of clothing are landfilled but soon it will only be a history.
Evrnu makes cotton recyclable, taking the millions of tons of garment waste and up cycling it into premium fiber for the use in new, high-quality garments.
Facts about clothing industry worldwide:
China’s Textile Industry is the largest producer of cotton shirts worldwide, creating an output of 60 million garments a year. This is nearly 54% of the world’s total production. Now think about the producing process.
To produce one t-shirt company must use 700 gallons of water! Each year China is using 2,5 billion tons of wastewater every year only for textile industry.
Evrnu makes cotton recyclable, taking the millions of tons of garment waste, and upcycling it into premium fiber for the use in new, high-quality garments
Facts about clothing industry worldwide:
China’s Textile Industry is the largest producer of cotton shirts worldwide, creating an output of 60 million garments a year. This is nearly 54% of the world’s total production. Now think about the producing process.
To produce one t-shirt company must use 700 gallons of water! Each year China is using 2,5 billion tons of wastewater every year only for textile industry.
They give the opportunity to recycle the products that they already made by those brands. As an example, Levi Strauss and Co. company produce first pair of 511 model jeans by using five discarded cotton T-shirts and the Evrnu technology. This available to use 98% less of water during the overall process of production.
How supply chain with implemented Evrnu technology looks:
Resource extraction and waste are eliminated! New fiber can be produced from the products we are throwing to garbage.
“One person can do a lot but a team can achieve impossible.”
If you would like to get more information about the Evrnu company here you can find video:
Ivyrevel is a clothes brand founded in 2003, which officially is a part of H&M global business group since 2016. It was co-founded by popular Swedish fashion blogger Kenza Zouten Subosic, and have been heavily promoted by her through social media channels as well as through her blog (kenzas.se). Ivyrevel already has been on the market for several seasons, but last year the founders have decided to offer a brand new and innovative relaunch that will turn it into the first truly digital fashion house. H&M is a major investor to offer strategic and production support. Another partner is Paypal, which is supposed to provide advisory services on payment and distribution issues.
Ivyrevel clothes are inspired by urban contrasts, strong independent women and by the contemporary now. Its style is polished, loud and extrovert with feminine silhouettes and ample amounts of attitude. It follows fashion trends and continuously releases new items with no pause, by reacting to latest fashion drifts.
The creators of the brand say that their site is their palace, their home, their one and only shopping window to the world. Consequently, you can find Ivyrevel clothes only online and there is no single physical store or a showroom to come try the clothes. Nevertheless, Ivyrevel ships worldwide and their clothes can be bought through many various e-commerce platforms, such as German Zalando or British Asos, and with the support of such a giant as H&M, it makes Ivyrevel a recognizable brand all around the world.
Using the hype around the brand relaunch, Ivyrevel announced that they are partnering with Google to bring couture into the digital age with the Data Dress – a personalized dress designed using a smartphone app developed by Ivyrevel and Google. The app tracks each user’s activity and lifestyle which is then interpreted into a truly unique, and on-trend, custom-made Ivyrevel dress.
”It’s such an exciting moment. We’re about to change the fashion industry by bringing the customer’s personality into the design process through data technology. To get a unique piece of clothing today you need to either buy a custom-made design piece or design it yourself, but that is generally not an affordable option and most people lack the design experience. The Data Dress enables women around the world to order a dress made entirely for them, that reflects the way they live their lives,” says Aleksandar Subosic, co-founder of Ivyrevel.
You ask how does it actually work? At 2016 Google I/O developer conference, Google introduced a new Awareness API that would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were, what you were doing, what’s nearby, and even the weather, in order to more intelligently react to your current situation. In 2017 Google introduced a new application that’s taking advantage of this sort of data in order to…design you a dress.
Through a forthcoming Android application, users can consent to have their activity and lifestyle data monitored – by way of the Awareness API – to create their own, personalized, custom-made dress that’s ordered through the app. Now it is officially called the “Data Dress,” says Google.
The idea is that you can translate your life and your lifestyle into a unique, wearable look sounds promising, but in reality, the resulting creation mainly displays your routes and routines as lines on a map, sans street labels and points of interest. But who would like to wear a roadmap?
Creators have promised that the app will release later this year, but still, there are no signs of progress.
