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Techno Jacket

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gives-a-whole-new-meaning-to-"patch-cable" dept.

Feersum Asura writes "Clothes equipped with fully integrated computer networks have been designed and developed in a joint venture between clothing company Levi's and electronics company Philips, following three years of intensive research. For more information visit the BBC website." I wouldn't be caught dead in one of these. Update: 08/16 11:11 AM by michael :More photos!

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  1. My New Business by mr.ska · · Score: 5
    MCSE Tailor

    trousers defragged while U wait

    suits pressed and reformatted, 1 hour

    This Week's Special: upgrade the memory in your UnderWare and receive a pair of USB socks

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    Mr. Ska

  2. Re:Tech-Jacket by dsplat · · Score: 5
    Obviously, there is a tie-in between this an a recent Slashdot poll. With this jacket and a networked washer and drier, your laundry can set the correct cycle itself! Imagine the uses:

    "Honey, the washer is refusing to start."

    "That's because your white shirts won't allow it to until you remove our son's red shorts."

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    The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
  3. Inaccuracies in the BBC article by asherh · · Score: 5
    The BBC online article contains a number of errors: the clothes do have a network, but it's for linking together a phone, mp3 player, remote control, earpieces and microphone and not so that 'the wearer [can] be fully connected to the world wide web at all times' (although later versions may well be able to do this).

    As for 'Disadvantages of the jackets include the possible implications of network crashes and the effects of rainstorms on techno-clothing while being worn.': the network in the current jackets is passive, and therefore there's nothing to crash, and the jackets are designed to be machine washed and so a little rain (or indeed a great deal of hot soapy rain) really isn't going to bother them...

    There's a rather more accurate article in the Guardian online at: http://ww w.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 051264,00.html

    Asher Hoskins
    Philips Wearables Project
    (a engineer, not an official spokesman! go speak to Philips PR if you want one of those!)

  4. Oops ... by gcondon · · Score: 5

    I think I just crashed my pants!