Pedro Lopes @ U Chicago CS has a provocative research program that invites critical attention.
"integrating interfaces with the human body—exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables. These include:
muscle stimulation wearables that allow users
to manipulate tools they have never seen before or that accelerate
reaction time, or a device that leverages
the smell to create an illusion of temperature.”
(Pedro came from Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, also worth tracking…)
I'm not at all advocating that we blindly adopt such techniques in our fashion+tech work. Indeed, it may be timely to look ahead of the state of industrial craft (e.g Google+Levi's Jacquard )
and see where critical-creative attention ought to bite.
Cheers!
Xin Wei