The Butterfly Dress is a prototype designed by Alexander Reeder, student at NYU. He created this dress from silk organza on which he applied several golden butterflies that come to life when the one who wears the dress feels intensive emotions. They flap the wings depending on the distance between the wearer and the people around and on the heartbeat of the wearer.



Alexander Reeder put the detachable butterflies on the dress using magnetic snaps. The Lilypad module collects information and controls the motors in butterfly’s wings. For that, she has to wear a heart rate monitor belt powered by Polar board wraps around the body for pulse monitoring. With the power coming from a 740 mAh battery, the butterflies can react to emotions for more than 4 hours.



The Butterfly Dress is interactive, washable and light, and from how Alex describes it, we understand that the magnetic snaps are modular so there can be even sound module embedded.

(Sources: talk2myShirt artandprogram)