 I'm here as the founder and designer of Art by Physicist, which is a tech fashion brand. And I am a physicist, but I love doing art on the side. That's why I started a brand to represent intellectual women through the scientific embedded and technology embedded clothing. And here, for example, you're showing some of your latest stuff that you're launching. What are we looking at here? Yeah, we're looking at a video of this very overcoat here. It has these beautifully designed solar panels in the lotus shape. This is our collaboration with a German company called Armour, and they make very cool same film solar panels in interesting artistic shapes. So it matches perfectly well with this dress, which is featuring my painting on the fabric of a lotus pound. So we integrated two modules here where you can actually go into the sun and charge your phone or any other electronic devices through a USB charger. And it brings convenience, but also it shows a artistic design of technology. And here's another video, or is this the same video? So basically you have a USB cable in the pocket and boom, charging with the sun. Exactly. And it's cool because it's very thin and we've never seen any irregular shapes of the dress before. And Nicholas, we met a long time ago in ID Tech X. So it's actually a company that also met there. We were in the same booth. I was demonstrating this coat, where I don't know if you remember, we had the wings embedded inside this coat and it was moving, but it's not practical. It's very cool and fun. So I wanted to upgrade that coat into something functional. That's why we started this collaboration and embedded solar panels inside. Yeah, that video is really cool. And maybe I can just show for a second right here. I'm going to, oh, sorry, I just need to click on the right thing right there. Yeah, people can watch it on the YouTubes. And... Right, that was... Yeah, that was before the crazy times. Exactly, yeah. So in this video, you see my handmade designs of 3D printed dresses and light-up shirts, also environmental data detection dresses, as well as this design that was moving on the mannequin. So we'll see that in a bit. Yeah, I'm just moving in the background. Yeah, the one that's flying. Mm-hmm, yeah. It's right here, I try to jump forward. It looks like wind, but it's like you can make it fly. Yeah. So I don't know, Nicholas, if you can post the link to this video in the YouTube... Of course, yeah. Yeah, people can find this video and they can watch more information. And if I come back to your screen, so where are you joining us from right now? Where are you based? I'm right now based in Germany and I've been working in my own studio for a year now. So just a couple of days ago, Thursday, two days ago, we launched our Kickstarter. That's where this code is one of the rewards, one of the new products that we're launching through this Kickstarter here. So you'll be able to find it through art by physicists, tech, fashion, where art and STEM meet. And Nicholas can share the link in the caption description of the video. So then people can boost your campaign and get the dress, how much would it cost to get one? Exactly, so there are different tiers. We have different prices for, we'll later show very quickly a lot of new designs we are showing, we're launching. So you can pick whichever design that you like the most. So for this particular one, we're selling at two prices. One is a special edition that has a discount, which is $549. And that is a 25% off retail price and then later on, if you get into the second shipment, that will be $579. The technology is very new. Yeah, and it's unique. Like, you can't find a solar charging dress anywhere, right? Even- Yeah, especially with the same film is completely laminated onto the fabric. And it's very thin. You don't actually feel anything. And it's got a really thin wire that's completely hidden inside the lining. So you don't see anything that is sticking out. And the charger comes through the pocket. How do you connect the solar panel to the charger? And to the cable? Yeah, there's actually some wires hidden inside that goes through the inside and it goes into the pocket. And it's just connected through normal electrical connection. There are two electrodes at the very bottom of each module. There's a positive and a negative. So it's all directly integrated with no trace of electronics. We got one comment saying, I've seen more and more cosplayers doing similar things, mixing technology with costumes. It's the future for sure. What do you think? It's super fun. Yeah, for cosplay, you definitely can do a lot of things that are fancier instead of daily wear. You can also make very cool looking and maybe not so functional, but very nice demos. What you can hear? Yeah, we really want to make daily wearable, occasional wearables where you can very easily have technology integrated into part of the something that you would normally wear. So this is the same idea, but it's a different design. It's also a painting that I did a very beautiful scenery by the Lee River. This is attachable bow. You can remove it and you can just carry it or wear it. So it's very convenient. The wiring is also hidden inside the bow you don't see at all and you can even put your phone in there. I actually think, and I've been saying kind of like, it's not jokingly, but I think that the next iPhone is smart wearables, like what you call it like smart closing. And I have a category on my website just about smart closing because everybody has clothes, right? Everybody needs clothes and it better get smart at some point. And if it gets smart, it's gonna be huge business. Do you agree? Yeah, and we have so much real estate on the body. We can really use all kinds of places to embed electronics and you don't have to carry a device with you. But yeah, for sure, we need to get smarter. That's why we're doing this early work to embed electronics into fabrics to make it part of the fashion. So what are we looking at here? This one is a dress that has a LED panel embedded. You can actually program it to change graphics anytime with a app. In this video, you will see that I handmade, I painted the earth and I painted all of the graphics as shown in the video. So you can make your own GIF and video and images and then just send it through your phone to the dress on the go. I mean, some people wear dresses because they wanna be seen, right? And it's important to be like the start of the show a little bit. I'm just saying like, I don't know, I'm a guy so I wouldn't know, right? And so if you have it light up with all kinds of amazing cool things, you're gonna win the party, no? Yeah, for sure. And you can impress your friends anytime. You can have your friends draw stuff and show up on the dress. So it's right there. Yeah, you'll see I'm wearing a top version. We also have this dress version. This is also available on Kickstarter as part of the new collection. It looks so cool. What's the LED able to do? You have all these, like I see the app and it connects and you're able to show whatever you want on the dress. You can show like the planet. It's a really big panel, yeah. And this is inspired by NASA image. So I actually hand drew all these lights and stars and the moon moving around the earth. So it matches perfectly with the design of the dress. Well, of course you can upload anything in addition to astronomical images. And in the app itself includes a lot of different images you can even pick from. I mean, this looks like something that I would think should be mass produced. And how do you get there? Are you going there? Are you already doing that or? That's why we're driving this through Kickstarter because we want to get pre-orders from people. We do hope that this will be something a lot of people are interested so that we can make this on demand. I talked about the overproduction problem in our previous interview that the fashion industry has been generating a lot of weights and pollution by overproducing clothing that people are not buying. So it's actually 30% of clothes ever produced on the planet get sent to landfill or get burned. And it generates so much waste. So what we want to do here is we think that clothing manufacturing should be the same way as other things that we can do made to order. So we want to use the Kickstarter to drive the demand and then we go produce more. If there's not enough buying then we should save the planet by not producing. And I would think it's a perfect fit with what you're saying. I'm already skipping to this one there, this video. When you're saying that and when the idea is that this should be like the next iPhone where people, it doesn't have to be maybe that cheap and people would take care of it more because it has special functionalities. Then you're not just gonna buy like a hundred different dresses, for example. You might just buy a few because they have really something that you really care about. And so if you buy fewer and more special ones it's better for the world, the environment. Yeah, so you get the customization you can change the dress based on your liking anytime. Actually since I started making clothes myself I kind of stopped buying. I have very few, my favorite clothing dresses I wear those often. So you're buying less but gaining more. Nice, what are we looking at here with the micro bit? How are you connected? Yeah, this is the test. So I was using the micro bit to indicate temperature. You're looking at on the left a soft flexible heater by the company Lumia Tech. They have been making this flexible durable thing electronics including a heater like this. You can heat it up very easily through a USB charger and is very easily applicable onto fabrics. So here you're seeing that I am basically transferring the heating pad onto the fabric in between two layers of this coat that I made. So you can then put a charger in it and start heating up. So this idea is also to provide, especially women, we don't like to wear too much in winter but it gets really cold and we get really bulky. So this way if we can heat up our coats we don't have to wear a lot. So this is an embedded heater very easily applicable. By the way, this is a coat that I designed with my hand painted perennial flowers and it's reversible. So you can wear this side with many beautiful summer flowers like hydrangea and roses and peony. And then you can wear this side. It has potholes and hollies. I hand drew all of these graphics and the patterns were also digitally printed onto the coat. So there's very little waste in the making of this coat that everything is directly printed onto the fabric and I cut the patterns directly out of the fabric. There's no paper pattern, there's no transfer of patterns. And then I just embedded the heater in between the layers and you don't see it at all. But again, a USB charger comes out of the battery. You can very easily heat this coat up. Because there's always like a trade-off between looking good and not freezing sometimes. That's right, exactly. And we really think that there's not enough technology that's designed fashionably, especially the appeal to women. We care a lot about the design, the complexity, but sometimes there's always a trade-off between something that's functional and then beautiful, you kind of mix the two. But what I'm trying to do here is really to combine all the good things together. So just your power bank in the pocket is gonna heat you up, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Just bring your power bank, connect it in the pocket and how many dresses in the world do that? Are you the only one who invented this? Like nobody's doing this? I don't know, I think we are pretty early. This heater was also just made available earlier this year by Lumia. So we are one of the first people doing this. And of course the heater can be applied to a lot of things. So if you look at their website, they have many inspirations on where to apply flexible and think e-textiles. You can put it in sportswear, you can put it in even seating and textile anywhere. So the imagination and possibilities are endless. So I want to do this to show people we have so many great opportunities ahead. Nice. So this perennial coat is quite complex and hard to make. So this is a stretch go for the campaign. If we get enough order, we will manufacture it. Nice. And then if I click right here, you have this one. There. Maybe I can play the music a little bit. So people can be in a mood watching this. Oh, is it copyrighted music? I hope not. No, I'm not. So what's going on here? This is also what we're using for the background of this video. You've got all the astrological signs and you can just light them up. Yeah. This is also a new e-textile innovation I collaborated with NovaCentrix on. NovaCentrix was also at iDTex like then in that event. So you see that we have designed 12 constellations that's on the fabric. You can directly print these flexible electronics, LEDs and the circuits onto fabrics and apply that onto fashion design. We designed 12 constellations for every person for your birthday, you have your customized constellations. So when you make an order, you can let us know which constellation you want and we will custom make it for you. Then they can be like a pattern in terms of how they light up and they blinking and stuff like that. Then not blinking is pure light up. We didn't make the blinking, not really necessary. All right. So actually it was a great event for you. Here's a comment, fashion everywhere. Yeah, fashion is like it's also, I cover a lot about electronics and I see all these guys, mostly guys, there's a few girls, right? But guys going around and saying, this phone is ugly, this phone is beautiful and stuff. It's kind of like they're fashion critics and not really just talking about the tech but there's no reason it cannot be combined. Of course it has to be combined. Everything has to look good and be functional, right? There's nothing wrong with, let's say, women being interested in gadgets, right? And trying to- Yeah, that's also a mission of the brand is to encourage more women and girls to be interested in STEM, science, technology, engineering and math and encourage them to pursue the technical fields. And our brand donates any profit, we donate 5% to STEM and STEAM, which has the art in it. We want to show that we want to represent the intellectual representation for women. Most of the time we see fashion just being the vanity and the prettiness without much thoughtfulness included. So we want to really show all the good things, the beauty and the intelligence in our work and encourage more women, more people to pursue this. I'm thinking that the possibilities are limitless when you think about clothes and you have to be stylish and you also want to try to figure out how to make it functional and useful in all kinds of electronic technological ways where you can control, use power and do wireless things and use Bluetooth and sensors. I mean, it's crazy how many possibilities there are right here. And I know there's a lot of companies working in smart closing, of course, but it's not in a level where it should be. It should be really like the new iPhone, I think, because the iPhone, what's happened every year is just like slightly different, but there's so much else that can be done and why not do it through fashion. Yeah, and we are showing a lot of different types of possibilities when you... Yeah, this is actually a classic design that we had through the brand. This just lights up, this doesn't have a special... This is one of the early works, but we are making this a reward because it's one of the most popular designs. And all of the constellations on my hand painted drawings, printed digitally onto the fabrics. It's fun, it has all the details that women may like. It's got a very good shape and it's got bows on the back and you can light it up and party. The bottom has the fairy string LEDs and it has pockets, it's very, very important. You can put stuff in pockets. There's not, believe it or not, a lot of dresses and skirts don't have pockets and women don't have pockets. Why? Do women not want to carry things with them or what's the idea here? We do want, but they don't make it. That's why all of my designs have pockets. Very simple, but it's an essential element. At least to put the phone in one pocket and the power bank in the other one, right? Or something like that. You could, yeah. Or okay. Yeah, you can put all kinds of things in the pocket. It's so convenient, I love wearing this. So there's one comment with solid-state batteries safer, light-up dresses is surely on the rise. Look like you went ahead. So what do you think about those solid-state batteries or safe batteries? I mean, they're lithium-ion. Everybody has their phones and their pockets and only a few of them explode. I'm joking, but I mean, it happens once in a while. But it's not that bad, right? I mean, if people are using phones all the time in their pockets, lithium-ion is great. But what do you think about all these kind of flexible batteries and that can be more easily embedded into clothes? That's exactly what we need next. So I showed a lot of the ideas with a thing, power bank, but I am waiting for the flexible batteries to become more mature, because that will mean so much we can just embed into the fabrics and thin layer. And better that they're water-resistant and the water-safe, you can also wash it. Right now we have to remove the parts, the battery before we throw the clothes into the washing machine. Nice, so you just remove the battery and then boom, it's fine. Washing machine, everything is good, right? Yeah, so for different designs, yeah, it's different for different designs. So some of them you can just remove the battery and wash, some of them, the whole part is detachable. Like the bow that I showed earlier, you just take that one off. So it depends on the design. When we ship out the products, we also provide the instructions on how to take care of clothes. It would be nice if, let's say you have a solar panel, is it washable in the washing machine or do you just take it out and put it back in after it's washed? So the one on the lotus one, we recommend we hand wash the clothes. Like for normal clothes, there are already different ways of washing. Like dry cleaning, machine wash and hand wash depends on the design. So that one we recommend hand wash, you can try, but I think it's less about getting water damages, more about we probably don't want to wrinkle and stretch the electronics too much. But like the Guilin dress that has the bow on it, we can just remove the bow and the dress itself is just machine washable. Nice, there we have your promo video going on, I think. Is it the one from the Kickstarter? That's for the Kickstarter. And how's it going with your Kickstarter? So what is a goal and how soon is it maybe shipping for everybody who supports your Kickstarter? Yeah, I can show you the timeline. We want to be able to ship many things starting in August. So we just launched it two days ago and we did pass the half 50% mark. But of course we would love to see more momentum and really have fully founded so that we can then move on to the next few months. In August, we can immediately ship some of the products. We have the Starry Night dress and the Earth Wi-Fi dress, they're already ready. And I'm gonna show you these two Bluetooth brutes next. But let me finish with the timeline. In October, we have a few more rewards that we can ship, like the Starry Night constellation shirt because we need some time to customize the LEDs for people's order. And then we're gonna have the Lotus and the Guilin solar powered dress and overcoat ship in October as well. So just actually as we speak now, we have made a lot of progress. I just received this prototype yesterday which is really, really good. So we will be able to produce them at scale if we have enough orders. In December, we have these brutes I'm gonna talk about next. Second batch and also the Earth Wi-Fi second batch. If there are enough orders, then we have second batches of the solar powered dress and coat, then we do have a stretch goal. If we hit 30K because there is a 50 units minimum order quantity for that heated reversible coat. So if we get to that stretch goal, we'll be able to make it for early next year. If there's not enough order, then hopefully in the future we'll make it. Nice, but as you were mentioning and as we showed before, you were at the ID TechEx show, what year was that? 2019. And there's all these companies there, right? That you're partnering with now. And so it was a good show for you, right? To be there. And I would expect this to be in the interest of some of these companies to see you get to your minimum goals. Maybe they wanna kind of like, they could be investors potentially that comes in and joins and says, let's make it big. Something like that. Yeah, we have so many opportunities and ideas if we could reach the goal, then we'll be able to do more. And also I really want to drive made to order. So just reverse the overproduction model that the industry has is to get enough orders. But even on demand, based on how many orders gets placed and be able to manufacture those on the number that people actually order. So instead of overproducing to like a mass, like a hundred or thousands of the same unit, I think this is a very niche market and all the fashion product should be made on demand. So we want to develop software and manufacturing tools to allow designers to very easily upload their designs digitally. So we want to do a digital design at getting people's interest. If they want physical products, we'll be able to send the digital files and get the manufacturers to make them. So that's a long-term vision we have. I think I lost your audio. Sorry, sorry, I muted myself. It's really interesting to see the work that you're doing with all this smart technology that you have. Yeah, so I can talk about, yeah, do we want to finish the video? Yeah, maybe you can describe what you're seeing. Try to describe what we're seeing in the video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you see, I was wearing this charger. So apparently you can also charge a little bit. It depends on the lighting. In indoor you can even do some charging. So I want to be able to provide women the opportunity to get their hands on fashionable technologies. So this is really crafted to satisfy women's tastes and their pursuit for beauty, as well as intellectual functionality. So my work was featured- In a catwalk. Yes, that was San Francisco Fashion Week. That was one of my first fashion shows. It had really good receiving from the audience. This was me making prototypes. And yeah, a lot of the ideas were conceived back then, but I had to make everything by hand. There wasn't any way to manufacture any of those. So I really explored the processes by building my brand and figuring out how manufacturing works, how the industry is doing things. Maybe I can do it differently. Like here, I do everything digitally. All the paintings, drawings, patterns, I do them digitally so that there's no material waste. And we can directly send the files for on-demand production, like 3D printing and digital printing. So yeah, we would hope that we get some opportunities and support by the audience to allow us to scale this because I mentioned we also want to donate to environmental protection and steam non-profits. So if we can get to where we want to be, we can contribute more to the society. I would think, let's say with this strange year that it would be even more relevant for smart wearables and smart technology, smart closing to be more and more relevant, like we should be able to, what's it called, take care of each other in society and I'm not going to say like track, but like, I don't know, like they have all these, yeah, there's all kinds of things that could, potentially be done, like when you measure the body, make sure people are healthy, that the oxygen levels are good, the blood pressure is good, there's so much potential for other kind of things that potentially you can think of, right? And maybe you might be interested or not, but I guess there's so much potential. So I want to mention these Bluetooth connected bridges. You mentioned Bluetooth just now, is especially designed for family and friendly interactions. So these come in as a pair and they are designed in very beautiful flower shapes. These are actually also my hand drawings. Imagine a mother and her child, each is wearing one. It has many sensors on them. It's got touch sensing, LED's, vibration and distance sensing accelerometer. So it's open source, you can even program them to do whatever interaction you want. Right now they are programmed, when they go out of the factory, we program them to have this one function which detects distance between two people. So if a child wears this with her mother or his mother, they would, or parents doesn't have to be mother, but it's my personal experience almost getting lost from my mom. Both of them detect distance. So if the child for any reason gets separated from the parent, the parent's one would start vibrating. So only the parent knows. So you can program different distances. Right now it's already vibrating because I put a very sensitive distance detection. Now they stop. So the parent's one would vibrate and notify and they will start looking for the kid. And the kid would also try to get back because their light will be turned off when they both turn on the in sync. But from a child's perspective, they really want to be together with mommy. So they will want to get back. This was from a story that my mom constantly telling me when I was three that she almost lost me in the in the super mall, in the mall. I was playing hide and seek from her. And I was hiding inside a huge coat. She spent hours and hours trying to find me and couldn't. And she almost got desperate and thought I was gone, I was taken. And then she saw a pair of little feet sticking out from the coat. And I was giggling inside. I found it really funny, but she was devastated. If she had anything like this, it would be very easy for her. Before I even disappear, she would get notified or she can use it to try to find me within range. Nice. Yeah, it's nice to have a kid's tracker that'd be fashionable and also cool. And like children get imagination when they see the little flower light up and it's like, you're inspiring the next generation basically. Definitely. And I also got people buying these telling me that they love using these for their children to learn programming. It's so fun and beautiful for kids. They plug it in and it's all open source. You can use Arduino or Scratch to reprogram this. If you even have siblings, you can wear this together and do some fun activities. It has, like I mentioned, has touch and accelerometer. So everything basically you need for wearables are integrated on these. So you can come up with all kinds of fun interaction using these sensors. Are they part of the drug funding too? Yeah, they are. And they're also very well selling products we had. So we currently only have a few left. And I guess today in the few, in the hour or so, we got a close off the early bird award reward. So right now is at half price. But soon we got to close it to food price, which is $49 per pair. Yeah, these are really rare funds. Nice, that's awesome. So when I go around your page right here, there's a lot of projects. I don't know if I'm screen-training correctly. Yeah, you can put back the images you sent in. I'm showing the mother and child scenario. I put your screen right here. Yeah, so I was showing in this, give a prototype that I handmade, I hand-sewn all the electronics. But then I collaborated with DF Robots. We made these PCBs. And even on the back, they look very beautiful. You can see all the components on the back. Nice. Are you in a place in Germany where there's a nearby, a bunch of cool printed electronics or flexible electronics companies that you are working with? Or they're like spread around the world? They are spread around the world. But I know that in Germany there are, I have made some connections within the country, different flexible electronics companies. So after the pandemic, I look forward to meeting them in person. Nice. All right. This is exciting to see what happens next. And if you can bring the attention to this in an awesome way. Even... Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And I appreciate the audience for supporting us. Yeah, please check it out. So the link to the Kickstarter, we put it right under here. I think it should be in the YouTube description. And there's a comment. Great conversation. I wonder how long before we have a phone, we can change while it is in a pocket wirelessly. We can charge. Charge, yeah. Yeah. So we could just like... One thing I'm wondering is, if we can connect the smart shoes that every time you step on it, it keeps like using some kinetic power to charge your devices. Yeah, there's big development there for a while. This kind of thing is quite difficult to get productized. There are so many great ideas. One reason I started doing this was like, why are there no fashionable and you like products wearables that are mainstream? It makes total sense that everything could be smart, but making those things are very difficult and getting people noticed that they exist. Like you mentioned the charging shoes. I think I believe there are companies that try to do this. So definitely it needs more people to know, to support them. And we would really love to drive this to be something that's more developments can't happen. And also it's great to make it a conversation, right? When people are wearing something like this, they would wanna talk about it and explain how it works and what's special about it. And like there's a whole conversation to be done when people approach and say, hey, what are you wearing? And boom, you can explain the whole thing. Yeah, I always enjoy these conversations because I am using fashion as a tool, as a vehicle to get people interested in the technology. That's why I think this is a great idea for girls and women to get them more interested in technology, you can really make them beautiful. You can really use technology in your advantage. So if you already like the visual, then you may want to start a conversation and then you get deeper and deeper into the technologies. You learn a lot more about science and technology. Nice, that's cool. And you're totally also having some apps integrated and the potential with the apps could be all kinds of stuff. I'm thinking like when you talk about distance of the child and the mother, but they could be distance between other people around some kind of sensor. Yeah, and with the improvement of Bluetooth technology, we even had ideas of multiple people wearing this. So we hope that we can get to the next version. We get enough support and visibility. So definitely help us spread the word and let your friends know what we're doing. We have really interesting ideas to go next. We can have a lot of these, everyone wearing this together and that will create a lot of fun activities. Can you have some other ideas you wanna talk about? Some of the potential future plans also that you've been thinking about? Well, we want to, as I mentioned, go completely digital before the physical production. So we want to be able to design things virtually, use simulation software, and we hope to be able to even make a library of all kinds of electronics and be able to say, hey, we can even have people pick what kind of functionality they want in the clothes. So that really satisfies people with the customization, the look, the technology, the fit, everything is customized for people. So we have a lot of vision and we hope to gather. Nice, I mean, I could keep suggesting, trying to ask different ways, but it could be also for sports potentially or is it more for, what do you like? Yeah, so for the thing about wearables is also, we've seen some sports wear and also some medical device applications. But what about having these functionalities in your everyday clothing? And if you have a need for medical monitoring, biometric monitoring, if you have to do it only with certain devices and one particular wearable, you have to change, you have to change different clothes. So you can't be wearing the same thing. So what if we can embed the electronics in all kinds of clothes? All kinds of everyday, you can get it monitored without thinking too much. So you don't have to change your habit in order to conform yourself to some functionality, but have the technology work for you by just taking care of everything. Nice, this is awesome, all right. So thanks a lot for showing all this and people can check out your Kickstarter, your YouTube channel, your LinkedIn, what else, you have Twitter and other stuff. Yeah, our website, yeah, Art by Physicist. All right, cool, all right. So thanks a lot, thanks for showing everything. Thank you so much, thanks everyone for coming. Thanks everybody for watching this video.