It's Haute-tech the Sound-on Dress

Jump into the beautiful night where it's as dark as a black panther's fur and among that night envision a young enchantress wearing a flowing white-luminous dress. She steps onto the dance floor and smiles because you now have entered into her little secret. She starts dancing with a man and the show begins as her dress responds to the salsa music playing off of the iPhone with the sound, volume, and rhythm. The excitement of the dance is reflected not only by the dancers, but upon the haute-tech dress. That's what I think of when looking at this dress, however

Create your own world with this "Sound-on dress." Where is your scene? How do you picture it? Is the story beginning with your first prom and wowing your friends with this interactive dress? Or are you simply taking a walk around a city letting the life around you create your dress' story? 

"The STEMplusD 1.0: Sound on" dress consists of:

+ Alta Moda Design Technique [Haute Couture standards]

+ Hightech Fashionable

+ Washable

+ Reacts to sound, volume, and rhythm 

+ Connected to an Arduino Mega 2560

+ Flexible 

+ Conductive threads

+ 600 LED lights

+ 150 yards of spaghetti straps with conductive thread inside

+ 20 panels pattern

+ Translucent film over LED/Conductive fabric 

+ microprocessor and some sensors

+ Light Diffusion Effect occurs

I mention STEMplusD, but what does it stand for?

Science
Technology
Engineering
Mathematics
Plus
Design

The correlation is that the dress derives from the STEMplusD project [October 20th 2014 it was released], it is set on the island of Puerto Rico at "The International School of Design and Architecture (EIDA), of the Universidad del Turabo (part of Ana G. Méndez University System), is the first school in Puerto Rico totally focused on design." (Press release) The designers consists of Cristiano Carciani, professor and coordinator of Fashion Design Program at EIDA, Arch Aurorisa Mateo Rodriguez, dean of EIDA and Carlos I. Silva Caraballo, director of EIDA's FabLab. They share the common ground of wanting to support professional, academic and young designers interested in exploring the STEM world through the eyes of design, the translation of using scientific/technological research, innovation,  sharing the culture of Puerto Rico's intellectual and technical resources, embedding technology while overcoming challenges and the desire to hit the marketplace in wearable techwear.

I believe that this experience will achieve the haute-couture, technology and design merge to create a new avenue wave of wearables and gain new ground of where modern fashion will be headed. Be part of this inspirational adventure and feel free to keep following up on this prototype and group
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Best Wishes and Excited to Follow this Project,
@DameofTechWear

Permission to display photos given by Luca Bagnaschino