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Sneeyeg. We love snow, we want a lot of snow, so that snowdrifts knee-deep, so that snow is everywhere - on the roofs of cars, on houses, on trees, on ourselves, so that it goes and goes, and does not end. Because we have a lot of winter and truly geek things to meet the fierce cold, white walkers and the north wind.

Someone thinks that a modern geek is not associated with a sweater and beard? This is a stereotype of a stereotype! There is nothing wrong with cool and high-tech warm clothing. A sweater with a wrapped collar, a fleece camping sweater, a multi-colored sweater with a hood, a prickly sweater with a one-horned deer, a cashmere sweater, a figured knitted sweater. They will all suit you! Just add a few gadgets that turn ordinary clothes into a geek accessory.

1. Breaking News

This is not just a sweater, but a real letter with a coded message. Mahir Yavuz Turkish designers and clothing Ebryu Kurbakov demonstrated NewsKnitter , which are generated by a variety of visuals taken from the network news. The feature of these sweaters is the uniqueness of information - on each new sweater it is absolutely different, converted into a visual image.

2. "Smart" sweater that is sad, like you (or glad that you are sad)

What distinguishes a smart sweater from a dumb one? The ability to tell others in time: "Do not touch me!" (Or, conversely, show everyone that hugging a programmer is necessary and useful). Sensoree has developed a GER MoodSweater sweater with built-in sensors that determine the mood of the owner and tell about him using the light indication on the collar. The touch sensor on the hand determines the emotional state of a person through a skin-galvanic reflex. The sensor is connected to the LEDs in the collar, which changes color depending on the received data: if the collar glows red, then the person is nervous or in love, a blue glow symbolizes calmness, purple shades indicate excitement and delight, and yellow shades indicate satisfaction.

3. It will warm just because it is necessary

The research unit at the Eindhoven University of Technology has developed an adaptable Wearable Senses sweater that can regulate body temperature.

Temperature sensors are installed on the inner layer of the product. The middle layer consists of ordinary wool. The outer layer is connected to the sensors and can increase the number and size of holes in the fabric. At low temperatures, the fabric becomes denser, and its increase increases the number of holes through which the skin can breathe and cool.

A project more accessible to ordinary people is called Temperature Sweater. There is no innovation here, just two thermometers are built into the sleeves, showing the ambient temperature in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.

4. For the most severe

Sometimes you have to work at a computer in extreme conditions. A keyboard sweater will warm your hands and accustom you to the method of blind ten-finger typing. Soft fabric can be pulled over any keyboard.



But you can not stop on the keyboard, but wrap the entire laptop in a sweater, there will still be room for the head in one of the sleeves. Unfortunately, the authors did not continue the idea in the picture above, and the sweater made with a zipper will fasten on the body, warming your hands, head and torso. With such clothes no frost will be scary.

We were not able to establish the author of the idea - the source is lost somewhere in 2008.

5. With tablet support

There are not many garments that interact with gadgets. Alphyn Industries PADX-1 Ledge Wearcom Pullover is designed for those who cannot part with the tablet even in the cold. This sweater has a special protective front pocket in which the tablet is located so that you can work with it simultaneously with two hands.



The idea has spread to other items of clothing.

6. Christmas and New Year

Another attempt with outerwear to say something more than "Hey look, I have a cool sweater that says that I DO NOT REPAIR COMPUTERS." Mark Robert, a former NASA engineer, decided that Christmas sweaters with deers, bears, and Christmas trees weren’t what geeks needed. Ugly Christmas Sweaters is supplemented with a special pocket for a smartphone or tablet.



In the gadget you need to download a special application that twists the looped animation. Through the window in the sweater one of several predefined animations will be visible, which goes well with the main pattern of the sweater.

7. For games

The Woven interactive game console was integrated into a regular sweater. In addition to fabric and wool, you will have to wear Arduino, an LED display (12x12 pixels), speakers (in the hood), a heart rate sensor, several motors that create a sense of shock. This whole system is running an application in a smartphone.

Using Woven, you can switch the TV channels, get information while jogging, change the prints on the sweater with LEDs.



And also, of course, games! With gestures you can “catch” various invisible monsters, dodge their attacks, and feel touch. In general, look at the video, how strange gestures are turned into a fight against “entities”.



All? Nearly. In fact, there are a lot of options for IT sweaters. Just take any gadget and hide it under a sweater. A great option for a carnival costume, as well as for solving everyday tasks. For example , students from the University of New York created a sweater with a built-in GSM transmitter. The sweater recognizes gestures, each of which causes the message to be sent to a pre-registered number. For example, touching the sleeve, you will send an SMS to the work number “I'm late!” All other methods are at your discretion.