INTEGRITY 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Contact: Dan Rogers

Editor
+Plastic Electronics

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Exhibition opening at the Textile Museum in Borås

5th June 2010 - 5th September 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Safety Layer

The aim with our first layer is that it should function as a regular first layer but with the life saving function by heating the body in emergency conditions.

If an accident occurs it is hard to keep the heat inside the body. The conductive yarns knitted in the pattern will be heated when electricity runs through them. In addition, if an injury occurs, our first layer will be able to sense whenever the body temperature drops under the safety range and it will start releasing heat to the body automatically.

Safety Tube

It's meant to be a quick and easy way to be protected from wind and coldness, if necessary. The shelter has the shape of a tube which has an adjustable length so one or two people can fit in it. The tube has a self-supporting design, this is due to a spiral of tubes filled with air. This fabric is coated with aluminum which will reflect the cold coming from the outside but it will keep and reflect instead some of the heat generated from the body inside the tube.

Safety Shelter

The idea is that everyone should have his own “home”. It could be used for both homeless and victims from nature disasters. The safety shelter is a combination of a mattress, a sleeping bag and a wind shelter.

This rip stop fabric coated with aluminum foil, has a thermo chromic print sensitive to temperatures inferior to 8ºC and photo luminescent colors which low in the dark.

Mobile home

The mobile home is a combination of a sledge and a tent. When you reach the campsite the tent is folded out from the sledge and the sledge is used as a “floor” surface.

There is a photo luminescent print in the shape of the star constellations. On the outside it will be possible to attach movable solar panels so that the electric equipment can be charged.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Solar technology

The Solar Power Plastic panels used as experiments and samples have been sponsored by Konarka Technologies, Inc.

The prototypes have been developed on real scale, therefore, they are not functional yet. In the following step, the conductive thread will be heated thanks to the rechargeable battery which will be sequentially connected to the solar cells on the outer layer of the tent or sledge during day light.

Together with the "security layer", a series of printed patterns has been presented. The concept behind the design, is to hide or integrate solar technology into the fabric also considering the aesthetics of the textile.

Colors, shapes and textures remind of organic forms and natural nordic landscapes, where, for instance, leaves change colors in autumn and ice melts during summer.