Captain Electric video XS Labs

Captain Electric consists of three electronic garments that both passively harness energy from the body and actively allow for power generation by the user. Using inductive generators, we can convert kinetic energy from the human body into electric energy and store it on a power cell integrated into the garments. Instead of attempting to conceal the generators and their operation, we choose to overtly integrate them into the garment concept and design. Referencing fashions historic relationship between discomfort and style, the garments require effort to produce varying amounts of energy to fuel themselves and actuate light and sound events on the body. The garments, called Itchy, Sticky, and Stiff, conceptually reference safety apparel and personal protection as well as our fears of natural disasters and other states of emergency, personal phobias, anxieties, and paranoia.

Captain Electric and Battery Boy
an XS Labs project by Joanna Berzowska,
with Marc Beaulieu, Anne-Marie Laflamme, Gaia Orain, Vincent Leclerc
and Catherine Marchand, Catou Cournoyer, Emily Paris
(c) XS Labs 2009

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