Device staged on the rack
The finished hanger was laser-cut with acrylic and featured an adjustable color LED.
Production process
We iterated through various designs that would be attractive while encasing the LED arduino component.
Range detector prototype
Initially, we prototyped a version of the hanger that used a range detector to react when a shopper was within range to indicate a size match. As this was bulky and wouldn’t fit into a nice form factor of a hanger, we switched to a different technology.
LED
The final version used Arduino with a tag reacting to NFC signals, which was a much smaller form factor and could be embedded in a clothing hanger.