This should fire up some inspiration.

[athelind]

Philips Electronics has come up with "Lumalive", a flexible LED fabric that can be integrated into furniture, drapes... and clothing.

Lumalive textiles can display anything that a normal LED array can – except it’s flexible and soft! Running text can flow across the couch or dynamic images can appear. Standalone graphics or preset color patterns can create an almost magical lighting experience. Or the couch can color-coordinate with your mood lighting. The most exciting thing though, is the element of surprise. The technology is only visible when it’s turned on – otherwise it looks like an ordinary couch.

Lumalive Fabrics in Furniture
Lumalive Fabrics in Clothing

Imagine the insanely gaudy, flashy costume effects you could get with this stuff! I want it for a dragon costume!

(cross-posted to fursuit)

Comments

[susandeer.livejournal.com]

OMG khromat and triggur are gonna FREAK OUT! @:D

[triggur.livejournal.com]

F***.

That's a high res version of the suit I've been working on. *ears flat*

[delako.livejournal.com]

lol..ravers everywhere are cheering...

[breimh.livejournal.com]

When Legend first showed me the design principals of this stuff on cloth, I was sitting there just going "Damn, that's awesome! Now I don't have any excuses not to do my dragonsuit." You mentioning it, and talking about putting together a dragonsuit, too, just made me laugh.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

I wanted to do that fifteen years ago when they came out with the first flexible screens -- put them on stiff clothes like leather jackets, hehe. Too bad I didn't have a million bucks to do it. *shakes fist*

Alas, it seems probable that this stuff will be very hard to work with, what with it being electronics and all. I suspect that you won't be able to just go and buy six yards of 60" LED cloth, hehe.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Dagnappit, Athelind, fold up your computer and let's get out of here! We're late for Further Confusion 2010!

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Now thats some slick stuff right there. ^^ I'd love to see the makeup of the fabric. I wonder what people could pull off for costumes and whatnot. I guess we'll have to wait and see!

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Well, for one thing, it offers you the science fiction favorite of camouflage that works by projecting an image of what's behind you on your front. Granted it would only work from one direction, but even so.

I presume you could get decent resolution on something like this, if you wanted to. Hence my comment about a portable computer built into a towell, for example. A large LCD tv that rolls up when not in use would seem to be mildly amusing too.

Unmarked cop cars that become marked at the flip of a switch?

And that's just a few unlikely things. What this could do in art, costuming, and the like, would be boggling.

Hrmm. If you incorporated wireless tech, you could have a group effort where your outfit reacted in some preprogrammed way with those of your friends. Dizzying "performance art.."

But of course the idiots only want to use it for advertising. Foo on them.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It would only work in one direction -- and GLOW LIKE A NIGHTLIGHT.

I like the "unmarked car" idea.

Yesterday, as I braved traffic on my velocipede, I was thinking of putting BIG bike turn signals on a backpack, or on the wide seat-back of a recumbant.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

*peers, now that he's back on broadband*

Is it compatible with lycra, I wonder? That's going to present interesting possibilities... >.>