Month: January 2022Page 2 of 5
Iris van Herpen Iris van Herpen experiments explores new fabrics created by blending steel with silk or iron filings with resin, incorporating unexpected materials ranging from umbrella tines…
Spanish designer SiiGii developed a full coverage inflated suit for people who have sun allergy. Taking the advantage of latex material, the designer is able to ensure the…
For the second round of precedent research, I found myself inspired by a multitude of pieces: Issey Miyake F/W 2000 Matthew Muller, “First Pneumatic” Ian McMahon, Tether Material…
OmniFiber is a soft robotics fiber developed by researchers at MIT that can bend, stretch, curl, and pulse depending on the movement of the user. The fiber can…
Biologically Inspired Engineering, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA A design strategy that takes a kinematic trajectory as its inputand uses analytical modeling based on nonlinear elasticity andoptimization to identify the…
Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes these kinetic sculptures called “strandbeest.” They are made from yellow plastic tubes and are able to mimic the movement of a leg powered…
Yumeng Zhuang Kinetic Traces is a collection of women’s high heels designed by Silvia Fado, bringing high-end fashion aesthetics and high-performance sports footwear together. What feature of the…
Link: http://viterbik12.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Culbertson_Wearable-Haptic-Pneumatic-Device-for-Creating-the-Illusion-of-Lateral-Motion-on-the-Arm.pdf Synopsis: This paper presented a wearable sleeve with 6 pneumatic pouches that actuated in sequence to create a “stroking” sensation for the wearer, with applications in…
BioLogic’s Living Textile is a project from MIT’s Media Lab that uses 3D printing technology to make active and actuating “second skin”, which in the context of kinetic…
This research project by Yujie Wang from MIT and Marcela Godoy from NYU Shanghai explores how to incorporate pneumatic haptic interfaces to change a garment based on social…