Lucy McRae and Bart Hess

Bubblle Dress
Lucy McRae is often described as a “body architect.” Her interests lie in fashion, technology, and the human body. In a collaborative piece with Rachel Wingfield, she developed a body suit called Frisson for Philips Design Probe. The garment has LEDs that light up as biometric sensors respond to being blown [...]

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests

Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates autonomous walking beasts from plastic tubes and bottles that can react to wind, and can store this energy for later use as compressed air. They “breathe”– they “think” and soon they will evolve.