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moving and interacting with others the dress slowly lights up with a blue-circles pattern that is moving
[126].
Fig. 59 The KineticDress by CuteCircuit [126]
Additionally, Philips Design prototyped two garments with incorporated electronics that express the
emotions of the wearer. Bubelle, the "blushing dress" comprises two layers; the inner one is equipped
with sensors that respond to changes in the wearer's emotions and projects them onto the outer
textile. It behaves differently depending on who is wearing it. The other prototype is Frison, a body suit
that reacts to being blown on by igniting a private constellation of tiny LEDs. Both measure skin
signals and change light emission through biometric sensing technology [127].
Fig. 60 Prototypes of emotional clothing, Bubelle and Frison, produced by Philips Design [127]
A researcher of the MIT team, Maggie Orth, established the company International Fashion Machines
(IFM) that is specialised in electronic textiles and textile design. They presented the Firefly dress in
1997. It is a lighting electronic dress with fabric circuitry, power distribution plane and sensors. It
embellishes the wearer's motion with an ever-changing display of light. Its first part is a skirt,
handmade from two layers of conducting organza (one supplying power and the other ground)
separated by a layer of nylon netting. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with fuzzy conductive Velcro ends
for electrical contacts are placed throughout the netting. When both ends of an LED brush against the
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