Collaboration with Genevieve Mateyko

An interactive wearable that gives haptic and visual feedback to its user by responding to airborne toxins (Alcohol, Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Benzene). Using switch case programming, the vest can respond appropriately to various environmental conditions - ambient, urban, dirty and toxic. Slow ebbing and flowing of the LED chest array indicate that the environment is habitable whereas a fast paced ‘breathing pattern’ and buzzing from cell phone vibrators placed over the lungs indicate a presence of danger.This project intends to humanize numerical data and sensors currently being used primarily for industrial purposes in order to bring environmental conversation to the foreground.
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fashioning technology, the huffington post