By Tiffany Nesbit, Source: Engadget

Though the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds blur more each day, Budapest based textile designer, Judit Eszter Karpati decided to try an experiment that would bring those mediums together even more. Specifically, she wanted to explore the relationship between technology and textile arts. This led her to try her hand at creating a programmable, electronic color-changing fabric, that could soon knock the fashion world off its feet.

Chromosonic is a fabric that can change its color based on its surroundings by using the Arduino open-source platform. Heat-sensitive technology creates shifting patterns that are generated from processed sound files and react to environmental impulses. The textile is first covered in silkscreen, then a special dye is applied that changes with temperature. Wires have been woven into the fabric and they heated up by sound- causing the fabric to change color.

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