OLED dress is stiff, from outer space

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December 14th, 2009 8

Gareth Pugh, an English fashion designer, made this OLED ~~armor~~ dress using fabric layered with “flexible” OLEDs. Seems like we’ve got a ways to go with this one, and that OLEDs might have better applications on harder wearables like ~~motorcycle~~ Daft Punk helmets. [via Fashioning Technology]