Designer creates cocktail-pouring dress
Dutch fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht has created Drinkbot – a robotic dress that calculates whether to serve someone a drink based on how close they are standing.
The Drinkbot dress provides a freshly made drink based on proximityIf the consumer stands within 0-18 inches of the dress – deemed ‘intimate’ – the device will not activate, however if they remain within ‘personal’ distance (2.5-4 feet) the process can begin.
Created in collaboration with Jane Tingley and Marius Kintel, Drinkbot features a backpack that nests all the tubing and wiring inside, and a small heart-shaped centrepiece that holds the mixed drink at the front of the dress.
The Drinkbot dress is a simpler version of Wipprecht’s earlier design, called DareDroid, which invited the drinker to engage in a touch phone-based game of Truth or Dare.
With DareDroid, sensors around the wearer’s neck detect the presence of others and enable the technological system to dispense non-alcoholic liquid based on proximity.
Once the liquid has been put into the cup, the viewer is then invited to play. If the participant completes the game, the model will then choose to add the alcohol into the drink. If the player refuses to play the game, then the participant will be given just the juice.
In November last year, a team of German designers developed a “robot” that creates bespoke shot drinks based on a user’s Facebook personality.
