In 2015, my close friend and collaborator Burcum Turkmen and I was commissioned by the renowned Turkish fashion designer Arzu Kaprol to design and build a wearable technology project to be showcased at the Vodafone Technology Summit in Istanbul. We developed a smart jacket that responds to weather by morphing its shape and temperature to comfort the wearer.
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The jacket would close its hood and shrink its length as well as cooling the wearer with a wearable AC unit in warm weather and, it would do the opposite in the cold.
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Getting here was not easy, we had countless hours programming and engineering but thankfully we finished with a product we all loved.
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