Sun-sational Dress

Solar cells integrated into a dress the sexy, smart, stylish way...but I can't tell if you can actually charge a phone yet. I must find out!

SOURCE: Fashioning Technology and Riso National Lab for Sustainable Energy

Purse with Power

Charge your phone with your purse..I almost always carry a purse!

This is a great concept but for $350 I would like a little more style, there in lies the challenge of making functional fashion....

Model of the Future

Is this 5-feet tall, 95-pound model, called HRP-4C, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the model of the future?

She will rip the runway at Tokyo Fashion Week on March 23rd, 2009. She will be modeling her one of a kind look, sans clothes! She can be your top model at the lovely price of $3 million dollars US.

Space Style

Source: New Scientist

During the February 2009 NY Couture Fashion week, patrons glimpsed the future of fashionable spacewear. Chuck Lauer of Rocketplane Global, an aerospace firm that plans to offer suborbital tourist flights organized a space-themed fashion show at Couture Fashion Week in New York City. The designs sashaying down the runway consisted mostly of contest winners from the JAXA and Space Fashion.org contests held during the past 2-3 years.

Here is my fav...

Rumor has it that another contest will be held this year...I haven't seen any details yet.

NASA Art Contest for College and High School Students: 4/15/2009 Deadline

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By Justin Burns
University of Memphis - Sophomore
2008 Contest Winner

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration invites college students from the arts, including industrial design, architecture, computer design, and the fine arts, to submit their work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon.

The art contest gives students and faculty an opportunity to form an inter-disciplinary team to collaborate with science and engineering departments, either at their institution or other institutions, to produce the most well informed art work possible. One suggestion is that the art project be a for-credit semester long effort and include consultations with science departments to develop the final entry.Find out what NASA is planning, watch the short video animation Back to the Moon here: http://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/multimedia/LATtrailer.html

Entries will be accepted in three major categories: two-dimensional, three dimensional and digital. Each category will have pre-determined size limits.

• Cash prizes, certificates of achievement, and exhibit opportunities are planned.
• All entries will initially be submitted digitally as 150 dpi jpeg images.
• An on-line gallery is planned for public viewing of the artwork.
• Winners will be asked to ship their work to NASA for exhibit purposes.

Please direct any questions to Dr. Elizabeth Ward at Elizabeth.B.Ward@nasa.gov

For contest info:http://artcontest.larc.nasa.gov/rules.html