High-tech clothes that make cocktails, turn see-through

The DareDroid is a biomechanic cocktail-making dress on display at the "Technosensual" exhibition in Vienna. Sensors around the wearer's neck detect when someone approaches and allow the system to dispense a cocktail. If they move into the wearer's personal space, the dress stops dispensing the drink.

The Bubelle dress, designed for electronics firm Philips, conveys the emotional state of the person wearing the garment through miniature projectors located between the layers of the dress. A series of sensors collect data such as heart rate and respiration, which is visualized by altering the intensity, shape and colors of light generated by the projectors.

Intimacy is "a high-tech fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology," according to its creators. The dress is made out of opaque smart foils that become increasingly transparent based on the wearer's heart rate, which varies depending on "close personal interactions."

"Taiknam Hat" is designed to respond to changes in surrounding radio signals. A detection system measures medium-wave radio signals and passes on the information to a microcomputer. The computer then activates motors that move the feathers adorning the hat. "Our intention is to ... contribute to our awareness of the increasing level of electromagnetic radiation in our environment," say its designers.

This wearable musical instrument is made from 35 circuit boards. It incorporates 12 coils, which create sounds when connected through copper plates on the wearer's fingers. The battery-powered dress includes two speakers.

This dress incorporates a battery-operated fog generator that emits smoke when another person comes too close to the wearer, according to its creators, Anouk Wipprecht and Aduen Darriba.

The "Body Speaker" dress includes built in "sound-capturing membranes." Worn against the skin, the membranes capture internal body sounds, according to designer Karina van Heck.

The "Paparazzi Lover" dress incorporates 62 LED lights that illuminate when it detects photographers' flash bulbs.

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'DareDroid' by Modern Nomads (MoNo)

'Bubelle' by Royal Philips Electronics

'Intimacy 2.0' by Studio Roosegaarde

Taiknam Hat

'Circuit Dress' by Nicky Assmann

'Smoke Dress'

'Body Speaker' by Karina van Heck

'Paparazzi Lover' by Ricardo O'Nascimento

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(CNN) -- Featuring risque-looking dresses that dispense cocktails and frocks that billow smoke, the clothes on show at the "Technosensual" exhibition could be mistaken for an auction of Lady Gaga's more bizarre outfits.

But it's hoped that the designs on display at Quartier21 in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, will pique the interest of both fashionistas and tech heads.

The Bubelle dress, designed by Lucy McRae for the Dutch electronics firm Philips, reveals the wearer's emotional state using biometric sensors that trigger different light and color displays.

Another dress, "Paparazzi Lover," is perfect for Hollywood starlets -- incorporating 62 LED lights that light up when the dress detects photographers' flash bulbs -- reminding crowds just who the star is, according to its creator Ricardo O'Nascimento.

"(The exhibition) proves that intelligent fashion has long gone beyond being a vision of the future ..." says MuseumsQuartier director Christian Strasser.

Other highlights include "Taiknam Hat," which detects radio waves and responds by activating motors that move feathers adorning the hat, and "Intimacy 2.0" -- a dress that becomes increasingly transparent based on the wearer's heart rate, according to its creators, Studio Roosegaarde.

A series of lectures, performances and workshops have also been organized for the exhibition, which runs until the beginning of September.

Ivana Kottasová contributed to this report.