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#Wear a 3d-Printed Onesie That Acts as a Walking Air cleaner Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk debuts wearable tech suit with stiched-in solutions to pollutionpsfk meets with Borre Akkersdijk, Founder of the Dutch design company at Northside Festival to learn more about the debut of the BB Suit 3d-printed onesie that doubles as an air purifiernd the future of wearable fashion. Before Google Project Jacquard, there was Byborre wifi-enabled pillow to combine technology, textile and shape. The long pillow, outfitted with conducting yarns and copper wire on either end, enables two people to communicate through vibration. The project is one of health-centered innovation imagined for people with late-stage dementia who are unable to speak but require constant physical touch. Two years later, the company is continuing to repurpose fabric to offer solutions in health, tech and even citywide pollution. The BB Suit concept first took shape when the team was invited to the Beijing Design Festival, forcing them to look at how the city and location might determine the wearer experience. In learning of the daily pollution problem, it became apparent that the suit should double as solution for cleaner air. The wearable tech for wellness uses Cold Plasma a patented technology to split oxygen and water molecules into free radicals. Those radicals easily react with viruses, bacteria and other molecules in order to clean the surrounding air up to 30 sq meters in a closed space. An air-quality sensor embedded in the hood uses location-based data to show the concentration of dangerous gases. If you so choose to wear the onesie in the car for one hour, you will have cleaned successfully the polluted air. The vision of Byborre is not to combat climate, at least not yet. Rather, Borre plans to release new inventions product-by-product instead of a collection with seasonal fashion trends. The prototype of the suits are still too extreme to appeal to the mass market but the designer hopes to create a surface that everybody can make use of. Similar to an iphone, in which each user curates their own apps, the future suits will enable the owner complete control over the functions. The adoption of the suit will rely on the future evolution of a new industry that bridges technology and textiles, Borre predicts. Borre imagines the unique possibilities for the platform to upgrade our everyday lives: to open your car door so you can go keyless, to tell you when youe getting sick so you don forget medicine at the store, to connect to your digital wallet and stop you before you overspend. If our clothing serves all of these uses, would we want to wear anything else? Byborre Northside Festiva d

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