Nanotechnology and Fashion: Olivia Ong's Fashions Can Keep You Healthy
There's a great article at Cornell University about design student Olivia Ong who has made some major advances in fashion technology by creating garments that can help keep your body healthy. Yes that's right. In the future what you wear may stop you from having to take any over the counter cold meds! Working in collaboration with Cornell fiber scientists, two of her garments were treated with metallic nanoparticles thus enabling a dress that prevents colds and the flu (plus it doesn't need to be washed), as well as a jacket that destroys noxious gases and protects the person from smog and air pollution.
These hip outfits are a part of her fashion line called "Glitterati" and if you never knew about nanotechnology, you'd still look hip and cute.
Upon closer inspection of the fabric, you can see how the cotton fibers are covered with paladium nanoparticle coating. Who knows yet what the side effects will be but with designers like Olivia Ong, fashion technology may be moving closer in the right direction and nanotechnology will become the latest trend.
Read more in the article online at Cornell University.
(Photos: Cornell)
Wow nice idea.i'm not sure whether to be excited or kind of scared..
Posted by: tin whisker | April 21, 2009 at 10:48 PM
wow its sounds like a fantastic idea.Now nano is using in design field also..
Posted by: x-ray fluorescence | February 05, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Looks like something out of the sixties.
Posted by: J.Brown | October 28, 2007 at 07:00 PM
wow, first of all she is ADORABLE, 2nd: i love the name of her line, and 3rd this sounds like a fantastic idea to me (but then again i'm a bit of a germ-o-phob!)
Posted by: melanie | June 12, 2007 at 07:45 PM
wow... i'm not sure whether to be excited or kind of scared.
Posted by: lady coveted | June 07, 2007 at 01:00 PM