Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The one with the original switch !



The idea behind this sport wear shirt is a switch located on the chest part that would sense the heart beat rate of the person and transform this beat into an electrical signal going through the whole shirt.

The electrical signal recognized by the fabric of the shirt will then be communicated visually through a wave of color coming from the source of the beat: the heart of the person. Each wave going from the heart to the extremities of the shirt will represent one heat beat, and will start to appear when the person’s heart beat crosses a certain rate that will turn on the switch and liberate the waves. The color waves will then appear like a radar signal starting with a red color at the source and fading into a dark blue color. The waves will then fade away and disappear when the heart beats slow down and cross again the limit rate that will turn the shirt’s switch off.

The switch itself will be linked to the heart beat sensor and will be composed of a micro chipset that will open and close the circuit depending on the heart beat rate of the person. When the circuit is open, the heart beats will then be transformed into electrical signal that will be communicated to the fabric through micro wires going though every parts of the shirt allowing the display of the colors.

This shirt’s color display allows people to show their efforts and represents also a sort of celebration of life and fitness activities. The shirt expresses the power that we all have within our bodies, this power that keeps us alive and allows us to do all the activities we do everyday. Also, this shirt is a reminder that the heart is something that we must take care of in order to keep on building and enjoying our lives. Each color wave is an expression of life from our body that we could not visualize that clearly before.

Sincerely,
David Baldy

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