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High-tech clothes let fashionistas bare all

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By Chelsea Wald

25 July 2012

A wearable lie-detector dress and a frock that can turn transparent are some of the technologically enhanced clothing on show at an exhibition in Vienna

Technosensual: Where fashion meets technology runs until 2 September at Freiraum Quartier21 in Vienna, Austria

WHAT if the world could see your innermost emotions? For the wearer of the Bubelle dress created by Philips Design, it’s not simply a thought experiment.

Aptly nicknamed “the blushing dress”, the futuristic garment has an inner layer fitted with sensors that measure heart rate, respiration and galvanic skin response. The measurements are fed to 18 miniature projectors that shine corresponding colours, shapes, and intensities onto…

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