The T-Shirt of the future
Like a moth I am attracted to the glow of pretty lights. This can come in many forms such as the city lights of Tokyo or the gentle glow of the blue LED on my stereo. So it was to my great delight that i discovered this little gem from Phillips. Enter the T-Shirt of the future!
Lumalive fabrics incorporate arrays of LED pixels mounted on a flexible lightweight substrate, with each pixel containing closely spaced red, green and blue LEDs.
Electric conducting tracks on the plastic substrate connect these pixels into a matrix display configuration, allowing each pixel to be individually addressed and the light intensity of its three LEDs varied in order to produce any desired colour.
Standard Lumalive panels measure 20 cm square and contain an array of 14 x 14 pixels, spaced a little over one cm apart. The panels can be interlinked or scaled up to cover large areas.
Not only is this very cool but has untold possibilities from a marketing standpoint. A walking advert for a brand can now be a reality. Can you decide what your T-shirt will show? With the technology sure to advance it is an exciting avenue.
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