In an incredible display of fashion and the mind, Sensoree has developed a new artifact it has dubbed the NEUROTiQ. Using a brain sensor that picks up activity based on different emotions and states of mental awareness, Sensoree connected the programming to a knitted 3D print full of “globules” that illuminated when stimulated by the brain. Different states express themselves in various colors along a spectrum defined by software programing. An EEG brain sensor relays the brain states and they are then lit for a stunning show of the mind.
The model showcased at the 2014 New York Fashion Week and deserved a runway presentation. The loops and lattices form a knitted pattern that resembles the synapses inside the brain whose activity it hopes to display. The knitting and printing process each clocked in under a hundred hours each with the programing hours tongue-and-cheekily left unknown. The 3D globules have electronics within a nylon print.
In order to illuminate the knitted 3D print, Sensoree worked with the Emotiv Epoc EEG brain sensor complete with 14 points that monitor brain waves. As a result, 14 light points, the globules, were created to reflect the brain states. Each color coordinates with a specific state: delta/deep sleep, red; theta/meditation, orange; beta/consciousness, yellow-green; gamma/multi-sensory brain state, blue/purple/red.
The NEUROTiQ has an otherworldly look to it, yet it is uniquely human and familiar. The headdress captures states of the mind, the inner working parts of our being and sets alight knitted globules. It is as if the brain extended beyond the normal trappings of the head and is let loose in an illuminated freedom of expression. Boldly, the model speaks her mind. Captivating in its innovative use of 3D printing and by the complex beauty implicit in something as pure and synaptic as the mind.
