How Animatronic Clothes Work

bethr writes "TechnologyReview.com has an article about the inner-workings of the animatronic clothes featured at a recent Paris runway show. The dresses use computerized motors and monofilament wires to radically transform from one style to another. From the article: 'Zippers closed, cloth gathered, and hemlines rose — all without human assistance.' You can see the finished product in the second half of a video of the show."

Comments

wardrobe malfunction?

[wealthychef]

I'd hate to see what the new definition of "wardrobe malfunction" will be now!

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[KeiichiMorisato]

Did you see what happens at 14:45 of the video?

Now THAT is a "wardrobe malfunction"!!!

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[Dr. Eggman]

Check it out, I totally overclocked my pants! The zipper can zip up from unzipped to zipped up in 1/5 of a second! Plus the coolant system is quite refreshing.



*sniff**sniff*

Do you smell smoke?

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[x2A]

In the land of animatronic clothing, the man with a remote is king

Animatronic models?

[gardyloo]

Hopefully, they can figure out how to put some emotion on those faces!

Link

[mr_nuff]

YouTube link for those wanting to skip straight to the nudity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFl0rNNQrY

Tubes

[RealGrouchy]

FTA:

Some of the corsets were very complicated. They had 30 or 40 of these little tubes running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.

So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!

- RG>