“ This dress is a revolution: it is fabric without fiber and an entire garment without assembly or sewing.”

 For all the talk of wearables and their infinite potential to revolutionize your style game, innovation on that front has so far amounted to 1) fitness trackers, 2) watches of dubious utility and 3)

gimmicky eyewear that cries out for punches to the face. While the fitness trackers are a welcome addition to the mainstream tech arsenal, the latter two serve mostly to tether us even more closely to the smartphones and social networks we’re already a bit fed up with in our daily lives. Nobody doubts that wearables will progress beyond their awkward current half-baked incarnations, but the jury’s still out on the sort of bionic hyperconnectivity they’ll bring.

Existential crises aside, innovations that In particular, we’ve become increasingly captivated by the near-future potential for textiles: nanotech garments capable of improving ambient air quality, fibers stronger than kevlar and fabrics that warm and cool to balmy perfection in any weather. These are are no longer the stuff of myth and thanks to their quantum gains in performance (rather than just as means of  improving connectivity), new textiles seem far more likely to meaningfully impact runway fashion over the next few years. Still, despite revolutions in chemical composition and manufacturing processes, the fundamental mechanics of textiles have remained unchanged: fibers are woven, knitted or tangled up like felt to make flat fabrics that are then draped, sewn and otherwise assembled into garments.

Enter the Kinematics Dress, the world’s first 3D printed dress and a product of the genius revolutionaries at Nervous System. Drawing on the logic of biological systems and ever more complex architectural forms, they have developed an system with the help of the Open Dynamics Engine able to generate a 3D-print ready document from a body scan and some quick modifications. Thanks also to an ingenious technique billed “computational folding” — the entire garment is digitally balled up to fit the working confines of the printer — it can be be printed as a single piece and then unfolded after printing

source:  needsupply.com