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Science Brings You Brighter Pants

Posted by timothy on from the we're-all-naked-underneath dept.

HobbySpacer writes "Ignored at parties? Now you can really shine in your new wild and crazy pants made from a fabric woven with scintillating light fibers and lit by LEDs. Optics.org reports on the debut this month of "sparkly clothes" made by the Italian company Luminex. The fibers were originally developed for particle physics experiments (first the Web and now this!) Science, leading us on to a brighter future..."

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  1. Soft watches, please by Observer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Ever since I first read it mentioned in passing - "it's a Bulova Dali" - in one of Larry Niven's stories set in Known Space, I've wanted to have a Daliesque flexible and functional watch woven into the cloth of a shirt cuff. Now, as the technology is gradually approaching the point where this might be feasable for the first time, we get... Disco Trousers?

    Oh dear.

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    Bulova(r) is a registered trade mark of Bulova Corporation. Dali ought to be a registered trade mark, given his eye for the commercial main chance.

  2. Excellent Efficiency! Captain by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Insightful


    It makes it easier and quicker to know who to shun at parties. Girls then don't have to actually talk to you to know you are a dweeb.

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    Table-ized A.I.