3D Apparel Designer & Fashion Designer
NEUE LABS X POC X BACK
NEUE REVOLUTIONIZES THE WAY WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY CAN IMPACT THE FASHION INDUSTRY
This Swedish fashion-tech company approached the DTech Lab with an opportunity to explore advanced digitization of fashion for two globally leading brands, BACK, and POC Sports.
POC SPORTS
POC is a high-end sports apparel brand, best known for its helmets. Having recently launched a new product line intended specifically for bicycle commuters, it looked to the DTech Lab to create a product that utilizes wearable technology to enhance urban cyclist safety.
In response to this exciting challenge, the team developed a backpack with embedded directional signals and brake lights, controlled by the cyclist's mobile. The phone maps out a route through the city, utilizing Neue’s microchip to control small vibrating motors on the rider's thighs indicating where to turn.
Simultaneously the microchip turns on directional signals alerting anyone behind the rider to their intentions. If the rider stops short the red brake lights on the backpack turn on. The user need not move his hands off the bike or lose sight, as all the communication happens between the phone and the backpack automatically.
TEAM MEMBERS
Neue Labs AB Participants
Fredrik Timour
Johan Avoine
Emil Wallin
Hair & Makeup
Janeth Ruiz
Models
Katy Kuang
Karina Ochoa Beltran
Stephanie Zhang
Photographer
April Blum
FIT Student Participants
Anastasia Edwards-Morel (POC Project)
Audrey Leonard (POC Project)
Caroline Berti (Back Project)
Jean Claude Aramouni (POC Project)
Julia Husch (Back Project)
Karina Ochoa Beltran (POC Project)
Stephanie Zhang (Back Project)
FIT Faculty Participants
Eileen Karp
Prof. Andy Liu
Prof. Leonard Bess
DTech Videographer
Leroy McLeod (Main)
Julian Catasus y Brueggemann (Additional scenes)
DTech Video Production
Julian Catasus y Brueggemann