Pollution sensitive EPA dress on display at 2nd Skin exhibition

By Andrew | May 18, 2008

Seems the world is opening its eyes to the grave problem of pollution facing the world. And this unique Stephanie Sandstrom’s EPA Dress, currently on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium’s 2nd Skin Exhibition is a perfect exemplar of this.

The link between this dress and pollution lies in the fact that it reacts to bad air. Yes, the moment it gets exposed to the polluted air, it starts to shrink and create wrinkles.

An intelligent interpreter of the bad environmental condition, this eco-friendly dress keeps a sad, wrinkled and tired façade when the situation is unbearable and also hazardous.

Now, coming to the technicalities that stimulate these wrinkles and reaction, one can find sensors embedded inside the EPA dress that are intelligent enough to detect the atmospheric conditions thereby creating telling kinks in the fabric’s surface.

So when the EPA dress looks crisp, happy and gay you have all reasons to feel happy as the environment you are breathing in is fine, else watchout!

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