01 August 2016 10:53:51 IST

A T-shirt that can sense air pollution

The pattern of the fabric is exposed if there is too much pollution

You know the air around is polluted but it doesn’t seem to bother anyone else so you keep quiet. Does that sound familiar? If yes, read this article on a T-shirt that can sense air pollution. It might give you that final push to do something about the increasingly toxic environment.

Written by Pauline Angela Quiambao in The News Independent, the article details how the top changes colour as the pollution level increases. According to the Air Quality Index, levels below 100 are satisfactory but artist and designer of the aesthetic clothing, Nikolas Bentel says otherwise.