In today's Internet era, cross-border is prevalent in various fields, and the boundaries between industries are gradually blurred, and everyone is busy integrating resources and seeking new profit growth points for LED. Some people integrate lighting with electronic products, such as sound lights; Some people integrate lighting with agriculture, such as plant growth lamps. Today, can we be more "bold" and talk about the application of LED in clothing?

With the continuous development of electronic technology, in the face of the overwhelming impact of various LED screens, some designers have begun to consider that if the modern electronic elements are integrated into traditional clothing, whether the combination of the two will bring a new wave for the clothing design industry, whether it can also give me a new perspective of the lighting industry to see LED applications, Open up a new "blue ocean" for enterprises that "kill red eyes" in the lighting price war.

The application of LED in clothes, shoes and hats:

With the rapid development of LED technology, there are some application attempts on clothes, hats, shoes and bags, and a lot of creative products have appeared, which has brought a lot of fun to People's Daily life. For example, in 2015, the French trend brand LYRIQUE cooperated with the snow boot brand ever Ugg to launch a series of luminous snow boots. Rechargeable led lights on the soles of snow boots can emit red, green, blue, light blue, cyan, purple and white 7 colors of light, a charge of 2 hours can continue to shine for 4 to 5 hours, or flash bright lights all day.

Disco Dog is a battery-powered vest with 256 LED lights on its surface, which instantly makes your dog the center of attention. Through the accompanying smartphone app, you can choose from a variety of preset lighting modes, such as flashing and gradient, or get creative and personalize it further, making the vest display text messages like a billboard. Disco Dog also has a more useful "lost mode" feature. When a dog is lost (out of Bluetooth range), it will immediately display the word "lost", letting the person who meets the dog know that it needs help.

kawamura-ganjavian design flexible night Light Kangaroo Light, composed of 24 small triangles, each with a built-in LED light, can emit soft white light, the outside is made of flexible materials, can be folded and stretched freely, put into the bag to carry around. It has a built-in accelerometer that blinks according to your movements. Charging via USB, it can be continuously illuminated for two and a half hours after full.

It gives off a soft yellow glow, and more importantly, it is small enough to fold and waterproof, allowing the lighting mode to be adjusted to meet the lighting needs of different environments, including lighting for finding small objects in the bag.

"Dead" Philips lumalive clothes

Regarding the application of LED in clothing, the earliest was the Royal Philips Company of the Netherlands, at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Exhibition in Berlin, Philips showed the latest research and development of "fresh brightness" (Lumalive) electronic technology in the "Future area" booth. The technology allows the fabric to flash colourful electronic patterns. The technology is to embed color light-emitting diodes in the fabric fibers, so that the jacket can not only light up, but also flash a variety of electronic patterns, such as dynamic advertising messages, geometric graphics or color transformation.

In addition to the novel shape, the fabric also adds a humane design. For example, the fabric uses a very flexible diode, so it is not stiff and stiff, and it is comfortable to wear; In order to facilitate cleaning, the parts of the battery and control electrons that are easy to power off and connect are designed to be not easily washed. Here is a video of the effects of the 2009 application:

However, the good times were not long, Philips lumalive on the application of clothes no longer released new products, but put energy on luminous building materials, and now can not find lumalive clothes on the Philips official website.

Bold try tshirtOS

Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, designers at CuteCircuit in London, have launched a line of InfiniTshirt products that can be programmed to have a 1024p full-color screen effect on clothing.

Rosella says their latest clothing will create a truly interactive experience for users. With a fabric specially developed by CuteCircuit, they can embed microphones, tiny cameras, accelerometers and speakers. These devices allow clothing to play video at 25 frames per second, and when the picture moves, the effect is gorgeous. The complete set of app controls, called tshirtOS, allows users to control visual effects, photos, text and more from an iPhone with a specific app installed.

The application prospect of tshirtOS is also very broad, not only can be integrated in T-shirts, shirts and other clothes, like haute-style women's fashion, miniskirts and even purses, can be used. Not only can it bring stunning effects, but businesses can also use it to push advertising copy content. Google at the 2015 I/O conference, launched a very interesting concept project, is to turn clothing into a touch screen. This technology is complementary to tshirtOS, and if the two companies have the intention to work together, they believe that they can soon launch a product that disrupts traditional clothing.

"Turning waste into treasure" for LED clothing applications

In general, if the heat generated by LED light cannot be exported, it will make the LED junction temperature too high, which will affect the product life cycle, luminous efficiency, stability. But on the clothes, whether we can "turn waste into treasure" of the discharged heat, open the intelligent warm and adjust the temperature function.