WARDROBE

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COMPLAINTS

Problematic Figures

•A quarter of women only wear 10 % of the clothes in their wardrobes

•It showed that 91 % have an item in their cupboard that still has the tags on

•79 % per cent have bought something in the past that they knew they would never wear.

The poll, commissioned by Mycelebrityfashion.co.uk, interviewed 1,623 women aged 18-30.

Market

• Majority of women and small number of men.

• Extreme cases = shopaholics.

• Everyone that is part of a consumeristic world.

Concept solution

• Assist constant shoppers the necessary of clothing and stop producing/purchasing waste in a creative and innovative way.

• Wardrobe that tells the owner how its really feeling.

• Helping user realise a shopping problem they might have.

Concept Solution

• Giving a life to the clothes with Mobile tweets of what is worn. “Item one Having fun day out with owner”

• And for the less fortunate clothes “depressed that was never worn once” even “neglect for too long”, “needs a new home” or “wants to be adopted by smiths family”.

NEED to change behaviors

• For users to reflect and moderate the amount of clothes they already have and is just lingering in the back, unloved. The knowledge and life given to these clothes will hopefully help these users to slow down in producing/purchasing waste, stop and reflect on the necessary of clothes.

StoryboardQuick overview.

The Functions

• Show emotions of each hung item in real time/physically rather than just through tweets.

• Calculate how many day been pass.• Transform that data and Update into internet.

Twitter feeds.

Functional/Technical Prototype

• Middle rod has a gap as slots. (recesses) • Clothes hanger slots into it, 'plugs' it into the

network, • Uniquely identify each hanger. • Possibly using reed switches, activated when a

magnet gets closes. Put a neodymium magnet.

What will it look like?

• How it is to be used

DataFlow

Cable /rod splits data out to clothes hangers

LED Lights

Uploads data online

Main controller

Logged on to slot

Passes data on to hanger

Clothes Hanger:• LED Lights integrated into hanger. (This will be like the

breadboard.)Wardrobe Hanging pole:• Recesses slots that will trigger event once hung with clothes

hanger. (OR cables twisting around the poles tp plug into network.)

• (The cables to pass the data LED to show for each hanger.)Controller box:• Arduino USB Board• Ethernet Shield With PoE• Real Time Clock Module

How its going to work

Current issues

• Working out what happens if the user takes out a few hangers at the same time to decide to wear one of them. However later on puts it back.

• Are there any other sensors that can help identify each item directly? Without too much gear attached? RFID has too close proximity.

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