Frizzle-Chic

A blog for science-inspired and high-tech fashion

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WiggleWarmers

Adorable and fun scarves with designs based on actual caterpillars! Stay warm and learn about nature with these beautiful scarves!

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New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices

Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have taken the next step, developing a fabric that can simultaneously harvest energy from both sunshine and motion.

Combining two types of electricity generation into one textile paves the way for developing garments that could provide their own source of energy to power devices such as smart phones or global positioning systems.

“This hybrid power textile presents a novel solution to charging devices in the field from something as simple as the wind blowing on a sunny day,” said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.

The research was reported September 12 in Nature Energy.

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I should have posted these much sooner when I first found them, but here are they are now startorialists - plus-size galaxy clothing FTW!

Gwynnie Bee is an online women’s clothing subscription service for sizes 10-32, but there is also a Gwynnie Bee Shop that anyone can access. 

Of these three offerings, only the galaxy wrap dress is still available, but I highly recommend checking them out in the hopes that there is more startorial things to come!

- Summer

[HT Kelly Hills]

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DuoSkin

Project from MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research explores how anyone can create stylish temporary tattoos with tech functionality:

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. Using gold metal leaf, a material that is cheap, skin-friendly, and robust for everyday wear, we demonstrate three types of on-skin interfaces: sensing touch input, displaying output, and wireless communication. DuoSkin draws from the aesthetics found in metallic jewelry-like temporary tattoos to create on-skin devices which resemble jewelry. DuoSkin devices enable users to control their mobile devices, display information, and store information on their skin while serving as a statement of personal style. We believe that in the future, on-skin electronics will no longer be black-boxed and mystified; instead, they will converge towards the user friendliness, extensibility, and aesthetics of body decorations, forming a DuoSkin integrated to the extent that it has seemingly disappeared. 

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I’m trying to look for a dress and can’t have this many tabs up

so I’m gonna stick them here and share them with you guys!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/291087033/saturn-rings-dress?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_34

https://www.etsy.com/listing/454637046/brainbow-neuroscience-dress?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_31

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101845398/neuroscience-dress-trippy-pink-retina?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_22

https://www.etsy.com/listing/264845586/ernst-haeckel-ascidiacea-illustration?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_10

https://www.etsy.com/listing/264845586/ernst-haeckel-ascidiacea-illustration?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_10

https://www.etsy.com/listing/239354300/succulents-and-bird-dress-organic-cotton?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=bird&ref=sr_gallery_8

https://www.etsy.com/listing/280554478/aqua-octopus-garden-tula-retro-dress?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=octopus&ref=sc_gallery_3&plkey=449438270f091cf3d98a2fcfc2f3c5a7b50cf555:280554478

https://www.etsy.com/listing/450976984/hand-made-full-skirt-strappy-vintage?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=octopus&ref=sr_gallery_28

https://www.etsy.com/listing/450834208/octopus-extravaganza-dress-nautical?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=octopus&ref=sr_gallery_11

https://www.etsy.com/listing/397881225/blue-octopus-retro-cotton-dress-small?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=octopus&ref=sc_gallery_3&plkey=a4a7f43c29d3e82109022278840a8f2b74893e49:397881225

https://www.etsy.com/listing/463683805/field-research-print-dress?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=science&ref=sr_gallery_19

happy browsing!

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OMG, the LIGO dress now real!!! <Einstein swoon> 

TBT to whenHolly Renee (aka @shenovafashion) first tweeted her concept for this dress the day after the announcement of the first detected signal of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on February 11, 2016. And she didn’t waste any time making it a reality! 

This gravitational waves dress features the two separate signals from the two LIGO detectors in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. Holly weaved them together like a brilliant mathematical twist on vintage Chanel. 

The dress is available on her website. And while you’re there, be sure to check out her other fabulous designs that we’ve featured here before like Emily’s Jupiter/Brown dwarf dress and the Fibonacci dress as modeled by Emily Lakdawalla.

- Summer

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A dress that thinks

Imagine if your clothes could represent what the world thinks. Fashion brand Marchesa did. And with cognitive computing they made this dream a reality. The couture designer worked with IBM Watson to create a cognitive dress for this year’s Met Gala. It’s a dress that reflects all the social media feels in real-time, making it possible to wear everyone’s heart on your sleeve.

See how the dress shined on the red carpet →

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when you used fiber optic fabric 1 year ago in your college thesis collection ¯\_(ツ)_/ 

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The (Wo)Man in the Moon can now be YOU, thanks to this awesome handmade full moon skirt by Christina (aka Interrobangirl on Etsy). 

I hereby request MOAR planetary skirts! I want to twirl on Jupiter and Mars…

- Summer

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I’m pretty sure this is the MOST ADORABLE thing in the Universe today. I’ve tried to find the fabric on Spoonflower, but haven’t gotten lucky yet. I bet Emily could probably use her superpowers to find it in a heartbeat. Stay tuned…

For now, just let this girl’s love of math and science make your day. 

- Summer

UPDATE: The fabric is available via Fabric.com. It’s designed by Sarah Johnston for Kaufman Fabrics. Thanks to @ninthfragment and @sweetestpiglet for the tip!

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@werebearbearbar!

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My transformation into Ms Frizzle is complete! Happy Halloween! 😁

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Scientist Hedy Lamarr Silhouette Cameo Necklace

An actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hedy Lamarr proved herself to be more than a pretty face. She was also a scientist who helped invent spread spectrum communications, a technology crucial to today’s wireless communications. Originally designed to defeat the Nazis, the system became an important step in the development of cellular phones, fax machines and other wireless operations.

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(via Silk Me Back – Arterial Kimono | Street Anatomy)

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Science-inspired necklaces from the Delftia Etsy store

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Published on Jan 9, 2015

A dress is making headlines at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: A high-tech garment made a splash at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. It features mechanical limbs that react to social situations based on the user’s stress levels. What is known as the “Spider Dress” contains a 3D-printed bodice with mechanical limbs that move to ward off those who invade the wearer’s personal space. The device contains 20 embedded proximity sensors, which have a range of about 23 feet, and bio-signals to monitor the wearer’s breathing and stress level. It also uses Intel’s Edison platform to react in real-time to changes in mood or emotion. The dress was created by Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch-based designer and engineer who describes her expertise as “fashion-tech.” Her inspiration was to use “technology and the garment as a medium of interaction.” She also finds it interesting that the dress responds to the wearer’s internal reactions to the environment which are not always controllable. Wipprecht believes that the dress can be used for more than just a social experiment. She argues that its sensitivity to the body’s distress level could have healthcare applications as well, such as in cases of elevated cardiac activity.

This video shows the full articulation of the dress (or at least, more than is shown in the video above.)

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Histology Neck Scarves and Handkerchiefs!

From Emily Evans, maker of the famous Histology Plates, now comes a set of silk histology scarves!

Step out in style with some endochondrally ossifying bone, scalp, nail bed or bowel tucked into your suit pocket?

No?

Well why not make sure you stay toasty warm this winter by draping some testicle around your chilly neck?

Thanks Emily! These are awesome.

Pick up your histology scarves and histology plates at the Anatomy Boutique.

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