From hacker to fashions most forward set of leggings
When world-renowned hacker Pablos Holman performed on stage and hacked audience members phones and passwords for kicks, he became a household name in the world of hacking. It's not just because he could hack someone's phone for their passwords, it was more about his stagemanship and ability to entertain people through the process.
It came as a surprise that the salsa dancing hacker decided that there just weren't enough leggings with great designs around and the only company he new that had anything worth wearing was in Australia, that he decided to reinvent how clothing is custom made with robots and in particular 3D printing.
For thousands of years, sewing clothes and producing lines of wearable durable clothing has been done in a fairly manual way. What was missing was the fact that fashion houses took a punt on what people would wear. What didn't sell went of course into landfill, and that is something most technology people are now not turning a blind eye to.
Traditional fabric is in essence two-dimensional - strands are arrayed horizontally, vertically, and in criss-cross to form a weave. With 3D printing, it is three dimensional interlocking weaves.
On the site, Bombsheller, in which Pablos invest under $500,000 into with fewer than 20 employees, artists can upload designs and people order according to perfect customisation of size, shape and length. Each legging is made on demand by robots.
Pablos remade the tights business and perhaps one day will change clothing production globally. No longer will American fashion houses have to look to Europe and China for garments to be made.
From one hack to another, perhaps one day our outfits each day will be made just before we wear it - you never know.
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Natsumi Otera
29 Oct 2018I think in the future the robot will supersede human's job, not only clothes industry but also various industry. Using robots takes shorter time than human do, but if the number of using robots increase dramatically, a lot of people will be unemployed, so we have to think about coexist with robots.
ReplyNatsumi Otera
29 Oct 2018I think in the future the robot will supersede human's job, not only clothes industry but also various industry. Using robots takes shorter time than human do, but if the number of using robots increase dramatically, a lot of people will be unemployed, so we have to think about coexist with robots.
ReplyNatsumi Otera
29 Oct 2018I think in the future the robot will supersede human's job, not only clothes industry but also various industry. Using robots takes shorter time than human do, but if the number of using robots increase dramatically, a lot of people will be unemployed, so we have to think about coexist with robots.
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