Odd clothes are… fun? Well, if you're a terrible dancer like myself, you've got to find a way to stand out in a crowd. It's been a little while since I put on a dress, but I might just have to now that I've seen the Beat Dress.

This flashy garment uses 10 detachable patches, each one equipped with 10 LEDs that are powered by a battery sewn into the front of the dress. Thanks to a microcomputer-assisted equalizer and a microphone, the dress can discern a beat in ambient music that it flashes along to. The end result is an outfit that pulses in time with whatever you've got playing, whether you're just hanging out or at a club. Using several layers of material including see-through cloth and nylon, the light from the LEDs seem to form 3D images as the dress is in motion. It's great way for a "club stander" like myself to look like I'm doing a lot when I'm really not.

The Beat Dress is the work of designer Calle Rosenqvist, a student at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in Sweden. — Kevin Hall

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