Design prototypes for 21st Century origami-style clothing and accessories owe their inspiration to Intel's lightning-fast Pentium Four microchip.
I was taken aback by the audacity of the whole thing.
Helena Rosen is a Swedish designer at the Design Laboratory, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, in London.
She has mirrored the 3-D computer world in her self-assembly fashion range called AnyWear.
Her designs are based on the folded silicon shape of the Intel chip.
This provides computer-designed, DIY origami articles which will be available from Pentium Four-powered vending machines.
She said: "Just as the latest PCs give you the power to create and unfold a personal digital world, the Pentium processor allows me, as designer, to pass this creative potential on.
"Now the wearer has the freedom to customise products specifically for themselves."
I had read about paper pants before and dismissed them years ago as a distinctly dodgy idea. But this lady was proposing the opportunity for the wearer to fold their very own origami designer gear, hot from their very own bubble jet printer.
Helena's innovative street-style collection will cater for today's mobile, infotainment-led generation. She has none of my uncertainties.
She said: "For people on the move, I think the future is for virtually instant clothing that adapts to your lifestyle and how you use technology."
The growing trend towards functional fashion means soon you will be able to get AnyWear wherever you are.
Short-life span products, with infinite design possibilities, at the press of a button from a vending mach-ine near you. Just think about the implications.
Will guys on a hot date be able to get a clean shirt in any copy shop? Will girls get a whole new wardrobe for the price of a looseleaf pad? Probably not.
Featuring prints based on the stunning architectural blueprint of the Pentium Four processor, Helena's clothing and accessories are tailor-made in several easy stages.
As you open, unwrap and fold a T-shirt according to your profile, the design is as different as it is revealing. But what is it likely to reveal? I know what happens to paper when it gets wet - it splits.
To complement the T-shirt, versatile luggage (shoulder or back pack) produced in re-cyclable materials has been designed to make your digital essentials (MP3 player, camera, personal digital ass-istant, ID-card, etc.)
easily accessible.
This has some serious possibilities. Recycling is the way to go and the more people who get involved, the better.
Brent Richards, director of The Design Laboratory, said: "Our latest project with Intel demonstrates a lateral approach to the art of new technology.
"Origami fashion draws direct parallels with the multi-faceted nature of technology, allowing the user to unfold and access sound, vision and play in a very personal, customised way."
I am not quite sure what all that really means as I don't speak "designer".
You can call me Mr Unconvinced but I think it means Mr Richards is delighted to have an industry giant like Intel plugging his rather weird looking origami wear.
It is all a bit like the Emperor's new clothes really, only in paper. Strange old technological world we live in, isn't it?
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