Holland: Turn Clothes Into An Exchange Platform Like Smart Phones.

The ultimate goal of Akkersdijk, Holland designer, is to liberate communication from smart phones so as to achieve organic communication.

In order to make clothes become the real communication platform of smart phones and computers, he and Research Center have been working hard to do this.

Holland designer Borre Akkersdijk has been committed to creating the concept of modular high-tech clothing.

Last year, the Wi-Fi linked suit developed for SXSW Music Festival has been upgraded to a platform that can change its function according to its location.

The most pformative technology in the past decades is the development of modular platforms.

We developed from cell phone to flip phone and upgraded to pocket sized computer.

They are Lego toys in multimedia. They can run various applications, act as the backbone of hardware peripherals, and interact with other objects.

Borre Akkersdijk is striving to achieve multi-media development in the field of clothing.

Over the past few years, he has developed several conceptualized hardware to reshape clothes into input devices, Wi-Fi routers and air purifiers.

He used materials locally to pform the "clothes".

To solve the local problems.

Akkersdijk, a textile designer, has studied at Eindhoven Design Academy in Holland and New York Fashion Technology Institute (Fashion Institute of Technology).

After graduation, he began to try different textile technologies. After a few years, he was invited to help solve the common problems of the first generation of real wearable technology.

Akkersdijk explained: "Eindhoven university is developing a large-scale project of intelligent textile, called CRISP, but every time it gets stuck on the same issue.

They just put technology into the textile industry, just like sandwiches, technology and textile are not well integrated into each other.

They are struggling to find breakthroughs and substrates that can be implanted in sensor technology. "

The circular knitting machine was originally used to weave mattresses, and Akkersdijk used this knitting machine to weave very thick objects.

This is the main way to achieve his knitting technology: it is just perfect to use this thickness to inlay, protect large sensors and put wires in clothes. It is simply perfect.

Eindhoven University of science and technology simply wants to use Akkersdijk's thick knitted fabric to inlay sensors and run lines, and it looks like there is no trace from outside.

Akkersdijk explained: "they split the knitted fabric from the middle and embedded the heavy sensor technology.

You can't feel them at all, because it's more like a synthetic material.

Although Akkersdijk was very interested in it, he did not expect to solve this problem in this way.

He said, "I really like this idea, but if we really want to use it as a solution, we need further research.

I have to go deep into the technology of conductive yarns and sensors to understand how university researchers plan to inlay them.

So the first step in the production process is to weave conductive yarn.

However, the object that first ignites Akkersdijk's wearable hardware module's inspiration is simply unable to wear.

In 2013, Akkersdijk and Eindhoven University jointly developed a pillow that helps people with dementia communicate with their families.

By embedding a built-in vibrating motor in a thick stuffing, people on the other side of the pillow can feel the gesture of the patient.

Akkersdijk said: "patients can not speak, they can only sit, but consciously want to touch and walk, just like the feeling of returning to childhood.

We want to develop a special pillow. Patients can feel it by feeling it. They can put it on their thighs and their loved ones. When one side touches the pillow, the other side can feel its vibration.

This has achieved a new way of communication.

You can feel what the other person is doing, just like you can touch his hand.

In 2014, this pillow attracted the interest of the organizing staff of the SXSW Festival. They hoped that Akkersdijk could bring it to demonstrate the exhibition.

The government of Holland launched a project: Jan Kennis, a Holland cultural Commissioner in the US, is responsible for the unique work of finding creative experts in Holland who are seeking American audiences.

Kennis now lives in Broolyn and performs four years of contract.

He said: "our network can understand what is happening, who wants to do anything, and who is likely to be interested in promoting Holland art.

It may be a museum, maybe pop music, or anything else.

My job is to find relevant American institutions, introduce them to Holland's art, arouse their interest, and make them pay better.

This is a great event related to Holland culture. "

Kennis noticed the Akkersdijk and his project through a former colleague. He thought SXSW was the "strategic venue" to show his achievements.

But Akkersdijk wants to make a breakthrough, not just to show off his pillow.

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Akkersdijk said, "I thought," come on, buddy, "Twitter was there, and Foursquare was there, and I could only say, 'look, I have a pillow!' a pillow...

And I have to explain to everyone every time, "this is for dementia patients" and their families.

What am I doing? My friends, I am a designer.

I want to make a set of clothes with conductive yarn, and call to ask others what SXSW needs. "

Friends who had attended SXSW told him that the common problem of music festivals was that they could not find reliable Wi-Fi hotspots.

His colleagues could not attend the celebration. They hoped to follow him on the map.

Because SXSW is mainly Music Festival, Akkersdijk feels that there are music elements in his project.

Luckily, his friends who worked in 22 Tracks had a good idea (and a potential promotion method at the same time).

Therefore, BB.Suit was born.

BB.Suit is a set.

With battery pack, Wi-Fi access point, GPS tracker connected to Google Maps interface and a crowdsourcing list, users can access and add it once connected to it.

Akkersdijk has a reason for designing wearable hardware as a one-piece garment.

He said: "this design has left more room for other technologies.

If you design it as a simple sweater, people will think of it as a plain sweater.

The conjoined clothes will arouse people's sense of space and age, and people will ask questions.

Once they ask questions, you can tell them about this conjoined garment.

So this design itself is a form of interaction we are committed to.

It did.

This conjoined dress has attracted the attention of the organizers of the Beijing Design Week, but Akkersdijk still finds this dress not suitable for the SXSW Music Festival. (Design)

He once again improved his design, focusing on the venue of the music festival, and trying to find some difficult local problems to solve the conjoined clothes.

Akkersdijk said: "haze and pollution is a well-known problem in Beijing.

We went to a cylindrical knitting company in Shanghai, which was responsible for all the knitting technology of Nike, and worked with Apple for many years to develop wearable technology which was not available before.

The company invited us to its laboratory, which will help us improve our technology and develop various kinds of air filters.

Akkersdijk found a research and development team from Germany. They are developing a cold plasma current device for the vehicle air conditioning system, but he found the device a bit cumbersome.

The big advantage is that it can clean up up to 30 square meters (about 100 square feet) of polluted air around the user.

He decided to install an air filter in his clothes. It can make people "see through the air" and know how much fog and haze are around.

The effect of clothing is good, its shape is more fluent than before, and its design is more exquisite.

But his goal is not just to sell this "air clean suit".

Akkersdijk said, "this is just an attempt to prove a concept, and the same as SXSW is to find ways.

This attempt still combines three aspects of geography, aesthetics and technology. It does not lay particular stress on one aspect, but practices the concept of terrace of the human body and its environment.

Clothes can do different things when people are in different places. "

Akkersdijk also sees this project as the first step towards achieving the ultimate goal of wearable hardware, the ultimate goal of which is to liberate communication from smart phones and achieve organic communication.

In order to make clothes become a real communication platform for smart phones and computers, Akkersdijk is consulting with research centers and large Philips companies such as Philips and NXP to create threads that carry sensors, reduce volume and develop smart clothes that can be as smart as smart threads. Google is obviously doing it.

At that time, Akkersdijk thought most of the so-called "contemporary".

It doesn't really wear (to be more precise, "portable", and you have to input your own information), although Apple Watch still shows signs of computing and communicating the new era.

Akkersdijk said: "communication has always been the driving force of technology.

Apple Watch first realized that we didn't need to type all instructions on our own.

Siri is working in this direction. It is concerned that if you go to the left, it is a shock; if you go right, this is the two shock.

This means that people begin to think about physical communication.

I think the sharing of body language and heartbeat is communication, but the new way of communication is to express where I want to go.

I hope I can say hello to my girlfriend by rubbing sleeves, or you want to go to the bathroom in a strange place, and your body has read the information, will guide you to the nearest bathroom.

What I want to do is such a trifle. "

Before the advent of small-scale technologies that support the next generation of wearable hardware functions, Akkersdijk has been experimented with sensor clothing to pmit thoughts and feelings.

In a recent speech, he wore a special sweater. The sweater has sensors that monitor heart rate, location and other functions. It helps to assess the energy level of the person wearing himself.

Some viewers are also connected to sensors.

Akkersdijk said: "some of them wear their hands and sensors, so you will suddenly see some real time fluctuations on the big screen around me, from which we can see whether the audience likes my speech.

There are many balls around us. Every ball is connected to an audience. If the audience is not involved, his ball will fall on a pin and explode.

Luckily, no ball exploded here.

Our general idea is that users do not need to tell the device what they think, and the device can show what is happening.

Showing people's "feelings" will undoubtedly further intruding into personal privacy, but the results of Akkersdijk's experiment illustrate everything.

He surveyed audiences who refused to wear hand sensors, most of them regretted not wearing them.

They initially wanted to protect their true feelings, but later they were more likely to understand their feelings as others.

"Everyone needs privacy," Akkersdijk said.

The key is whether you are willing to be open.

While maintaining their privacy, people are curious to know the secrets of others.

We have to find out, but the premise is that others say "yes" to us, otherwise we will not know it, as if people would hide when they did not want to be found.