Remote-controlled bras!

Randy Sarafan’s Remote-controlled bras of the secret underworld of Syrian lingerie was inspired by electronic singing panties. He is the design studio chieftain at Autodesk/ Instructables and currently leads a team of artists, engineers, designers, magicians, mathematicians, Charlatans, chefs, Scientists and making ground breaking how-to content in the San Francisco Bay at instructables.com is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. Instructables is one of the most active, engaging, vibrant and diverse communities on the web, with  today’s tinkerers and users uploading projects daily, with over 170,000 community authored project across half a dozen catergories including technology. It achieved over 30 million monthly users, doubling the amount of traffic from just two years ago.  One of the saying “with great powers comes greater responsibilities”.

Women have used a variety of garments and devices to cover, restrain, reveal, or modify the appearance. From the 14th century onwards, wealthier women in the West used the corset, which pushed the breasts upwards. In the latter part of the 19th century, various alternatives were experimented with, splitting the corset into a girdle-like restraining device for the lower torso, and transferring the upper part to devices suspended from the shoulder.

In the late 19th century, bras replaced the corset for breast support. By the 20th century, greater emphasis has been given to the fashion aspects of brassieres, a multi-billion-dollar industry dominated by large multinational corporations.

One hundred years ago on Nov 3 1914, the United States issued a patent for the first modern bra. Mary Phelps Jacob, a New York City socialite, receives a patent for inventing the modern Bra, as then she used two handkerchiefs and a pink ribbon to create the backless brassiere. She created a bra as a means to avoid wearing her corset – which she referred to as a stiff “boxlike armour of whalebone and pink cordage”, according to a Telegraph report on her life. It was not until World War I, when the metal used in corsets was needed for war efforts that bra really began to take off.  Jacob changed her name to Caresse Crosby, and did not turn her creation into profit. She sold the patent to The Warner Brothers Croset Company in Bridgeport, Conn. for the modern equivalent sum of £14,000 ( $21000).