Akira Wakita

FABCELL

2006

Material Installation, Custom Materials / Wearable Computing / Interior Design / Fashion Design

A wearable ambient display using non-emissive color-changing textiles. The system consists of textile modules, their controllers and substrate fabric. The textile module is called ”Fabcell” (fabric pixel) and is composed of conductive yarns and liquid crystal ink. Combining fabcells, as if they are used as pixels, produces real-space ambient display. Different from emissive flexible display such as organic EL, dynamic graphics using non-emissive color-changing textiles actualizes hospitable and aesthetic information display, blending in with environment. Our method will be expected to design brand-new communication media intended for fabric artificial materials, used for fashion and interior decoration.

CREDIT

  • Midori Shibutani, Kohei Tsuji, Mariko Higaki, Hisakazu Hada, Akira Wakita

EXHIBITION / AWARD

  • SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, Boston, 2006.

  • Interactive Tokyo, Miraikan, 2006.

  • INTERIOR LIFESTYLE TOKYO, 2009.

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