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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. A lot more disturbing is this: by uradu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://optics.org/articles/news/8/7/1/1

    Why does the world need this again?

  2. Glowing pants? by inio · · Score: 5, Interesting

    pffffff... Glowing pants?

    What the world really needs are glowing undergarments!

    Oh, whoops, seems they have those covered (in the middle).

  3. Interesting, BUT by glh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it is a nice concept, but I don't like the fact that it needs a battery. I wondery why they can't make it work off human body heat (like armpits and groin)? Perhaps the battery wouldn't be a problem if it was soloar powered (maybe it is?).