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Another Look At High-Tech Fabrics

Posted by timothy on from the please-don't-wet-the-cloth dept.

prostoalex writes "CSMonitor takes a look into wearable computing and digital fabrics. To quote the article, 'many anticipate [this sector] will become one of the next hot drivers of the American economy'." I find the Foster-Miller wearable cables an especially neat technology.

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  1. Re:80's/early 90's redux by Komrade+S. · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to wear those and pretend I was the chameleon from Spiderman. Didn't matter that Chameleon changed face, not just colour, but then again, I was young!

    Then I realised the Chameleon got his ass kicked a lot so I stopped. The shirts also directly correlated to the wedgie ratio graph that I began drawing up on my Amiga. I believe the same is true for those who wear these things.

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  2. hazing by sstory · · Score: 1, Funny

    so in a strange turnabout, I suppose geeks would be hacking into Jocks' clothing and (cut-and-) pasting "Kick Me" "I suck" signs on their e-backs.
    just goes to show you, the future's unpredictable.

  3. fashion trends by sstory · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if the eClothes followed familiar interface trends, the Mac clothes would look cute and stylish, the Windows clothes would look functional, and the Linux clothes would look like they were designed by 15-yr olds with poor color sense. But the clothes of some linux-wearers with the perverse command line fetish would be black, with a little bit of white.

  4. Don't make me h4x0r your clothes... by FakePlasticDubya · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... to make them transparent!

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  5. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    in about 5 years time we can all walk around wearing blue screens of death?

    Why wait 5 years?