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Universities Collaborate On Air-Purifying Dress
ecouterran writes "From the ecouterre article: 'We have dresses to impress, for success, even to kill, but "Herself" must be the first drapery number to clear the air. A collaboration between the University of Sheffield, London College of Fashion, and the University of Ulster, the sweeping gown is part of a larger project to engage the public in the science of environmental pollution. "Catalytic Clothing" explores how textiles can improve ambient quality, and the self-described textile sculpture, is the first prototype to emerge. Highly experimental, according to the designers, "Herself" is designed to illustrate how fabrics can eliminate pollutants so we can "breathe more beautifully."'"
Sounds like this dress would need to go to the cleaners after simply hanging in your closet.
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This would make a LOT more sense as window drapes or something similar. Passively clean the air in your house, and look nice at the same time.
Sounds like a trip to the doctor would be a good idea.
Feel free to prove me wrong. No, really. I WANT you to prove me wrong.
Not a single bloody link in that article (and there are 10 of them, plus a video) explains anything even close to how this idea should work. Prove me wrong, give me the information.
My guess - it is another one of those bullshit "artistic" designs based on magic and "hey wouldn't it be cool".
You know, those that don't bother to use even buzz-words like "nanotech", instead focusing on the Photoshop side of the idea.
Oh, and if you like the dress, you're gonna love the breathing mask that cleans air, captures CO2 and stores it as electricity, mentioned in one of those links.
I hear it works on special mushrooms.
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That is why the top part is white.
And as everyone know, unicorn semen is lighter than dirt, so the dress is darker at the lower part as the filtered dirt accumulates at the bottom of the dress.
Only downside is, once the magical properties of unicorn semen get used up, you must wash it in dragon tears.
Preferably a Chinese dragon. European dragon tears don't have the right level of pneuma to reload the dress in one washing.
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Superman.
About as scientific as this dress. About as real too. Maybe more.
After all, he's been around forever and someone just farted this dress up only recently.
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This has to be one of the most vague articles I have ever read. Here are some things it misses;
1. What pollutants does it purify? Heavy metals in the air would not be effected by a catalyst.
2. How such clothing could be cleaned?
3. How long will the dress be effective?
4. It says two universities were involved. What departments in those universities? Fine Art or Engineering? If it is the Fine Art department I would question the feasibility and effectiveness.
Even the technology as described is questionable. It would take 40 people one minute to 'purify' 8 cubic meters of air. That is a lot of people for a little bit of air.
In the article it says the dress is made with sprayed concrete but actually links to this which is cloth impregnated with concrete. The cloth becomes rigid when water is added and it is allowed to cure. A rigid dress is a sculpture not wearing apparel.
This looks to me like one of many artsy concepts that have little or no basis in science and questionable use as fashion.
And my oppressor is a humorless jerk with mod points.
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