Either fashion just got a solid wallop upside the head, or douche-baggery has been taken to a whole new level of Starbucks coffee.

London based creative technology agency RehabStudio have tasked themselves with imagining what the clothes of the future will look like and do.

They’ve decided that they will have unexpected properties with tech integral to the garment. To prove their point, they’ve hacked into a pair of sneakers and added phase change fibers and shape memory meta materials that enable interchangeability between layouts, locking chosen patterns to the sneakers.

Conductive filaments woven into the shoes membrane, pass electrical signals through to LEDs that act as ductile screens which displays the ‘shift’ designs.

The whole project is open source with an app featuring a “pack” store where users can download and share design layout.

From: http://www.shiftsneaker.com/