We Now Have Clothing That Responds to Your Stress Levels, Because Science

Being stuck in a semi lockdown for two years gives people lots of time to work on wacky ideas, and Polish designer Iga Węglińska did just that. She had to work on a doctoral dissertation and figured she’d make tops that change colour so the wearer – and everyone looking at them – can see whether they’re stressed or anxious. How does it work? Well, stick around.

The main concept these tops are built around is called sensory substitution. What that basically does is take one sensory input and translate it into another sense. Think like how braille translates touch into vision so impaired people can read texts. Why do we need this on clothing, you ask? We don’t! But just because we don’t need to, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.