IAT320 Sketch 2 - Day 1

March 9:

We brainstormed ideas and came up with 2 potentially workable ones that we liked.

Idea #1:

The idea is about air pollution and the constellation. The ideal concept is that due to air pollution, many cities have 'smog' hovering in between high buildings that blocks sunlight into the city, as well as, making it hard for people to see the sky. In order to create an awareness of air pollution, we wanted to put the starry night onto a T-shirt. Constellations would be on the T-shirt, and they would blink/light up according to the light sensor and the accelerometer- the less light, the brighter the stars would be, and vice-versa. Overall, the meaning of the concept would be: light and air-pollution will dim the brightness of the stars, so in order to improve the night sky to see the beautiful constellations, we want people to wear the t-shirt and bike around to promote the awareness - on the shirt, to make the air pollution go away and let the constellations re-appear.

Idea #2:

The idea is about creating the awareness of health through shaping fiber optics into a heart, and have more fiber optics extend from the heart to the sleeves, the neck collar and the bottom-end of the T-shirt as the body's blood vessels. With the use of the accelerometer and the temperature/humidity sensor, the more the wearer of the shirt moves or exercises, the heart will blink more/less in speed (depending on the user's movements) that resembles the rate of a exercising heartbeat. And the extending fiber optics will blink according to the heart, but at a slower pace - to mimic the blood vessels of the body.