 I'm Valentina Palatino with The Verge, and this is an emotional sweater. No really. Think of it as a mood ring, but on a much larger, softer scale. This is Tech in Motion's Wearable Fashion Show, an offshoot of the New York Fashion Show where designers show off what the future of fashion is going to be. Until now, we've only heard about how tech companies can make more fashionable products. Is the Pebble Steel's design the best for a smartwatch? Can Nike make its fuel band even sportier? Will Google Glass ever look normal? But while everyone has been focusing on the consumer electronics world, the fashion industry has been playing. We saw jackets and bags outfitted with tracking sensors that would alert you if you forgot something. These come from the up-and-coming designer, Asher Levine, whose work fit the likes of Beyonce and Lady Gaga. I collaborate with different technology companies and integrate their technology into various products that we make here. I'm inspired by biology and nature, and as you can see, the inspiration is like grenade meets reptile. And then it integrates a phone halo tracker device. And what it is, it's a chip that tethers to your phone via Bluetooth. If you walk away from your bag or your bag gets stolen, your phone will beep. And if you can't find your phone, then you just use the chip to beep to your phone to find your phone. In addition to mood-enhancing garb, we saw 3D-printed shoes that, yes, you can actually walk in. Some designs were rather extravagant, with the fluidity only possible from 3D printing, while others just looked like your basic department store shoe. But many of the best designs are the most subtle, like Ministry of Supply's classic business wear. Special fabric acts like a battery, absorbing and releasing heat depending on the environment, but it looks and feels just like your favorite dress shirt. Some of the biggest ways that fashion can use technology won't be so obvious or outward facing. It's integrated sensors and 3D printing detailed patterns. It's technology not as the final product, but as the toolbox from which ideas can come from. And designers can now experiment and produce these faster and cheaper. At our downtown shop, we create different types of materials, and as you can see in many of the things that we make at the shop, it looks like it could be a skin from an alien, or a skin from a prehistoric creature. That's what I kind of want to do. I wish I could get that prehistoric crocodile skin right now, but unfortunately that was 30 million years ago. So what we do is we use different material innovative processes to create the skins that I actually want to use. Some of the ideas we've only seen in science fiction are now starting to become a reality. It may be a ways away before we see these things in our shopping malls, but the fashion industry is already working towards that. The line dividing tech and fashion is rapidly blurring, and traditionally designers have been plagued with the age old question of form versus function. But the next generation of designers will be asking an entirely new question. Why not both?
 I'm Valentina Palatino with The Verge, and this is an emotional sweater.
 No really.
 Think of it as a mood ring, but on a much larger, softer scale.
 This is Tech in Motion's Wearable Fashion Show, an offshoot of the New York Fashion
 Show where designers show off what the future of fashion is going to be.
 Until now, we've only heard about how tech companies can make more fashionable products.
 Is the Pebble Steel's design the best for a smartwatch?
 Can Nike make its fuel band even sportier?
 Will Google Glass ever look normal?
 But while everyone has been focusing on the consumer electronics world, the fashion industry
 has been playing.
 We saw jackets and bags outfitted with tracking sensors that would alert you if you forgot
 something.
 These come from the up-and-coming designer, Asher Levine, whose work fit the likes of
 Beyonce and Lady Gaga.
 I collaborate with different technology companies and integrate their technology into various
 products that we make here.
 I'm inspired by biology and nature, and as you can see, the inspiration is like grenade
 meets reptile.
 And then it integrates a phone halo tracker device.
 And what it is, it's a chip that tethers to your phone via Bluetooth.
 If you walk away from your bag or your bag gets stolen, your phone will beep.
 And if you can't find your phone, then you just use the chip to beep to your phone to
 find your phone.
 In addition to mood-enhancing garb, we saw 3D-printed shoes that, yes, you can actually
 walk in.
 Some designs were rather extravagant, with the fluidity only possible from 3D printing,
 while others just looked like your basic department store shoe.
 But many of the best designs are the most subtle, like Ministry of Supply's classic
 business wear.
 Special fabric acts like a battery, absorbing and releasing heat depending on the environment,
 but it looks and feels just like your favorite dress shirt.
 Some of the biggest ways that fashion can use technology won't be so obvious or outward
 facing.
 It's integrated sensors and 3D printing detailed patterns.
 It's technology not as the final product, but as the toolbox from which ideas can come
 from.
 And designers can now experiment and produce these faster and cheaper.
 At our downtown shop, we create different types of materials, and as you can see in
 many of the things that we make at the shop, it looks like it could be a skin from an alien,
 or a skin from a prehistoric creature.
 That's what I kind of want to do.
 I wish I could get that prehistoric crocodile skin right now, but unfortunately that was
 30 million years ago.
 So what we do is we use different material innovative processes to create the skins that
 I actually want to use.
 Some of the ideas we've only seen in science fiction are now starting to become a reality.
 It may be a ways away before we see these things in our shopping malls, but the fashion
 industry is already working towards that.
 The line dividing tech and fashion is rapidly blurring, and traditionally designers have
 been plagued with the age old question of form versus function.
 But the next generation of designers will be asking an entirely new question.
 Why not both?