In the above photo you can see an example where a streak of lightening can be seen on a model’s t-shirt when the t-shirt is viewed via a mobile phone camera. The lightening is printed on her t-shirt but the “colours” (wavelengths of light) used for printing aren’t perceivable by the human eye but are picked up by digital cameras. There’s more details about the technology here.

There’s a number of usage suggestions for the techology on the kameraflage website. You could imagine extending their idea but without digital cameras. Imagine multiple people sitting around using a shared surface computer (such as a DiamondTouch). Each person is wearing glasses with slightly different colour tints, so each person would be able to view a “personal” image on the surface that the other users won’t see. Or you’re going to the cinema and depending on which glasses you wear the film has a different age rating because different parts of the film are “cleaned up” for younger age groups. Alternatively wear these glasses during the film and get in for cheaper because you’ll see inserted advertisements on-screen?

Shape-memory alloys (SMA) are woven into the fabric. The SMAs change shape when power is applied and remember the shape after the power is disconnected.

Above are two images from Hussein Chalayan’s Spring 2007 fashion show. The image on the left shows a close up of a dress before it automatically altered its shape into what you can see on the right. There’s a video of the fashion show here – jump two minutes in for wonderful examples of clothes altering their shape while worn.

I wonder what will the first temporal fashion be? Will there be fashionistas wandering around wearing clothes that all change in the same way at the same time across the face of the globe? Or will hip be that which repeatedly and smoothly deforms with three twists left, one twist right and shows a brief hint of orange?