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fashion : graphene

Material could revolutionize the way we live

Graphene is 1,000 times thinner than a human hair yet 200 times stronger than steel

"   In 2004, two scientists from Manchester, England, used Scotch tape -- yes, tape -- to isolate graphene. It’s 1,000 times thinner than human hair, but while invisible to the naked eye, it’s 200 times stronger than steel, flexible like rubber and energy-conducting. And now, it’s become a little black dress.  

CuteCircuit co-founders Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella  CBS NEWS

Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella are the design team behind CuteCircuit, the London-based fashion label that specializes in wearable technology. 

The pair has illuminated stars like U2’s Bono and Katy Perry. But their latest piece is light years ahead of the others.

“How is your dress different from a dress that you just put on a switch and it lights up?” Vigliotti asked.

“Well, it’s different in a lot of ways. The first way that comes to mind is that it’s a lot more intelligent. So if you just turn on a switch and it just lights up, that’s a simple circuit like you’d have on a Christmas tree or a flashlight,” Genz said. “But ours is actually monitoring the breathing of the user and storing that in a microprocessor. So in a sense, the dress is a computer in itself.”

The result is lights on the dress that can change colors with the rhythm of a heartbeat.  "