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Fashion and technology came together on Wednesday at the Boston Museum of Science, where Seamless: Computational Couture was hosted. Models and designers from around the world participated in the event showing off designs that incorporated technology.

Steven Rosengard
This is an outfit that harvests kinetic energy from the moving body. This dress actually requires you to move around for it to create the energy and it's just kind of fascinating. At the elbows and at the hips whenever the wearer bends, and so on and so forth, it creates energy that is stored inside the dress for later, that you can go and charge you ipod, charge your phone, or whatever you need to do. So it's kind of making your clothing work for you, and it's about time it did.

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Steven Rosengard a former contestant from the television show Project Runway emceed the event which drew a crowd of over a thousand people spread throughout 3 floors of the museum.

Christine Liu
Co-Founder, Seamless
All of the technology is really there. The genius behind it is finding the application, the way its integrated into the garment, the aesthetics of it, the motivation behind it, and that's what we're looking for. This sort of composite poetry.

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One of the interesting pieces of fashion was the Vanity Ring, modeled by Boston Red Sox pitcher, Manny Delcarmen. For the ultimate egosurfer, this ring uses LED lights to display how many Google hits you have. Unfortunately, the ring does not update automatically, you need to plug it into your computer to refresh your hit count. Once on the market, the ring will retail for about a thousand dollars, but before I run out to pick one up, I asked the designer if this piece would be for me.

Markus Kison
Creator, Vanity Ring
So this ring is really about important people. It's really like this, because no one would wear a ring with a thousand hits on it. So if you type in George W. Bush, who is number one, you get 50 million and that's definitely him. And then the second person is Steve Jobs at the moment, then comes Paris Hilton, then comes Bill Gates, which is kind of behind Steve Jobs, but it's funny.

Here's a dress that shows wifi signal strength. Designed by 802.11 Apparel, the dress lights up depending on how strong a signal is in the area.

Jenny Chowdhury
Interactive Telecommunications researcher, New York University
Since the beginning of time we've borrowed from the environment to decorate garments. Like flowers and animal prints. Since wifi is such a large part of the environment now I thought I would integrate it in that same way. So that's why there's a floral motif on top of the bars for wifi.

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This jacket has an LED array actually woven into the fabric. Called Jacket Antics, messages can be displayed on the back, but if you hold your partners hand, sensors in the sleeves will tell the jackets to scroll continuing messages across both backs.

And keeping with the green trend, this jacket uses built in solar panels to charge lights in the jacket's hood. There was also the Solar Vintage collection...this umbrella, necklace and fan have solar panels built in. During the day they absorb the suns energy, then once night falls, they emit their own light.

From the Boston Museum of Science, I'm Nick Barber for the IDG News Service, with additional reporting by Fred O'Connor.