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http://brightcove.newscientist.com/services/player/bcpid96978243001?bctid=610189732001 "High fashion meets high tech with this new spray-on clothing designed by a Spanish fashionisto. The design team also hopes to use the technology for spray-on bandages and hygienic upholstery.
Manel Torres worked with scientists at Imperial College London to invent the silly-string-like spray, announced just in time for Fashion Week.
The sprayable shirt consists of short fibers mixed with polymers, dissolved into a solvent that allows it to be sprayed from an aerosol can or high-pressure gun, according to the Guardian. Torres can use wool, linen or acrylic fibers to change the texture of the fabric, the Guardian reports. The resulting fabric can be removed and washed with the rest of your laundry.
Don't like the color or feel? Simply dissolve it, using the same solvent, and start over..."
From
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/sprayable-clothing and
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/spray-on-clothing/
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Shepppardsays...Yeah.. the spray on clothing thing seems silly to me. Two things come to mind.. One, how long do you think it would take to make a full shirt..
..second, if you're applying this to yourself, how are you going to cover your back?
The reason I upvoted this is because that really could be managed into a decent bandage in field-situations. That impresses me.
westysays...>> ^Shepppard:
Yeah.. the spray on clothing thing seems silly to me. Two things come to mind.. One, how long do you think it would take to make a full shirt..
..second, if you're applying this to yourself, how are you going to cover your back?
The reason I upvoted this is because that really could be managed into a decent bandage in field-situations. That impresses me.
obvously you could redesign the method of aplicatoin.
for example u could just have a booth u stand in that covers you instantly.
where this is intresting for clothing is for sporting clothes , or for example if u wanted to protect something as a way of rapping things quickly could be equivelent to vacume packing but be aplied allot faster and offer more padding.
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Shepppardsays...>> ^westy:
>> ^Shepppard:
Yeah.. the spray on clothing thing seems silly to me. Two things come to mind.. One, how long do you think it would take to make a full shirt..
..second, if you're applying this to yourself, how are you going to cover your back?
The reason I upvoted this is because that really could be managed into a decent bandage in field-situations. That impresses me.
obvously you could redesign the method of aplicatoin.
for example u could just have a booth u stand in that covers you instantly.
where this is intresting for clothing is for sporting clothes , or for example if u wanted to protect something as a way of rapping things quickly could be equivelent to vacume packing but be aplied allot faster and offer more padding.
And who in their right mind is going to say "You know what I could use in this room? A giant booth that can spray a shirt on for me."
That isn't practical. It's not viable to put one of these on solo in your own household. I also highly doubt this is equivilant to vaccuum wrapping, being as it would need to have the ability to allow air to escape, otherwise you'd become a sweaty mess with this on.
Sagemindsays...I actually like this idea, but only for people who are fit, otherwise it's no different than spandex clothing, (and we all know how fast that fad went wrong with overweight people!)
Ooo, or undergarments - disposable underwear! (no one likes cleaning the skid-marks off those anyway!)
...And just think about the bedroom possibilities...
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westysays...>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^westy:
>> ^Shepppard:
Yeah.. the spray on clothing thing seems silly to me. Two things come to mind.. One, how long do you think it would take to make a full shirt..
..second, if you're applying this to yourself, how are you going to cover your back?
The reason I upvoted this is because that really could be managed into a decent bandage in field-situations. That impresses me.
obvously you could redesign the method of aplicatoin.
for example u could just have a booth u stand in that covers you instantly.
where this is intresting for clothing is for sporting clothes , or for example if u wanted to protect something as a way of rapping things quickly could be equivelent to vacume packing but be aplied allot faster and offer more padding.
And who in their right mind is going to say "You know what I could use in this room? A giant booth that can spray a shirt on for me."
That isn't practical. It's not viable to put one of these on solo in your own household. I also highly doubt this is equivilant to vaccuum wrapping, being as it would need to have the ability to allow air to escape, otherwise you'd become a sweaty mess with this on.
If your a profesoinal cycalist then its not to obsurd to think sumone would foot the bill to have a booth constructed for it that can quickly spray you before an event .
what are you on about vacume rapping ? u could easily use this to wrap products maby do something fancy with it as a quick way to gift wrap things or as a way to package items together with the advantage of it being able to be reciceld easily.
yah i dont think its that viable as an every day peace of clothing , but a spray on rain coat , how about skin tight gloves for sergins . how about protectoin against frost bite or hipothermiea in servival situatoins ?
your just been a bit closed minded and specifcally saying it has to do exactly what clothing now does rather than thinking what new things it opens up.
Shepppardsays...@westy
In that situation, however, you'd have someone else to spray it on for you. A coach or someone else. And I doubt they'd wear this because it doesn't seem all that aerodynamic to me. It looks very fluffy, not anything like the skin-tight suits that athletes wear.
Also, the more I think about it, the sillier a "booth" idea is. There's no way a booth can estimate your exact dimensions to properly give you a shirt, so you'll either end up with this in your hair, or have some form of tube top.
Also:
You:
"what are you on about vacume rapping ?"
"for example if u wanted to protect something as a way of rapping things quickly could be equivelent to vacume packing"
There's no way this material would be able to vacuum seal anything, it's a FABRIC, fabrics BREATHE. Even Astronauts space-suits have a layer of rubber and kevlar. Surgeons already have skin-tight gloves, it's a requirement, and how do you expect this to act as a raincoat when it doesn't repel water?
If you're in a survival situation, why wouldn't you already be prepared with thick gloves and a thick jacket, and even still, how would a paper-thin fabric retain enough heat to stave off either hypothermia or frostbite?
The only thing this opens up is field-bandaging, as anything else it basically flops.
Before you start opening up with more things it could do, think about that for a while. What practical use could it serve, and how would it achieve that?
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