Staff in nightclub Wyld will glow to the beat of the music
Staff at the W London’s club Wyld will become wearable tech performers this week. The Soho hotel is launching music reactive Wyld Uniforms with integrated LEDs created in collaboration with Glofaster and designed by Claire Barrow.
The jackets, waistcoats and garments feature reactive strip lighting made by Glofaster – the company behind the smart sports jacket that tells a runner to speed up or slow down. The smart clothing for the Wyld experiment pulsates in time to the music played by the club’s DJ, reacting in real time to the beats.
“Wyld’s Uniforms work using a state of the art, fibre optic lighting system,” Glofaster’s Simon Weatherall told Wareable. “They use a hand made, custom built circuitry called ‘the gizmo’ that is fully integrated with a sound sensor. The technology can be modified and upgraded at any time and has the capabilities to communicate with the wearer via vibrations.
