November 8, 2015 AT 4:00 am
MIT Is Growing Living Bacteria Into Clothing That Reacts To Your Sweat #bioLogic
Last week MIT Media Lab unveiled bioLogic. via Gizmodo
What could bring sneaker designers, chemical engineers, fashion designers, and a human-computer interaction experts together? BioLogic is a skin-like film that ventilates via fins that are raised and lowered like tiny windows on your body, opening up when your body temperature or sweat volume reaches a crucial threshold.
“We are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than manufactured, being derived from nature as opposed to engineered in factories,” Yao writes about the project. Biologic is a wearable technology that grows in a dish, rather than a factory.
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