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Pioneer's Wearable Computer Jacket
i4u writes "Pioneer develops a wearable computer jacket with organic film electro-luminescent (OEL) display.
On the photo, Kayoko Tanaka, a PR staff member of Pioneer, tries on a prototype of a wearable computer, a jacket with a built-in display in its sleeve in Tokyo Thursday, June 5, 2003. Pioneer works on this technology since 2001. I also found an article in the Taipei Times from 2001. Back in 2001, the jacket looked a bit fake compared to the one shown today.
When the computer display jacket hits the market is unclear."
your cloths will me smarter than you.
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That's cool, but what's the point. Does anyone actually need something like this?
can it act as a rain coat?
I write code.
I mean,If I'm on public transport and shit, whacking off to my favorite gay German scat porn, won't people mind that they can see my fecal-fetish quite literally worn on my sleeve?
Japanese Transparent Skirts and Optical Camouflage Research> . Now that is what I call cool tech.
Sigs are bad for your health.
are going to love these. You know, the kind of old ladies that wear personalized 'My grandson is cuter than yours' sweatshirts they buy at little booths in malls.
Wow. It's the first product that seems to be ill-suited for porn...
I mean, what good would the display be if it's moving back and forth so much?
I just hope they come out soon.
Also, imagine full body flexible displays so you can either be camoflagued or a human billboard. Or even play live action quake with your fave TF teamskins.
yeah. One suit to rule them all. Change your style without changing your pants.
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than a yuppie driving down the road talking on a cell phone. Can you imagine someone talkin on a phone, typing emails, while trying to drive and drink coffee? God help us all.
The truth hurts.
I have one of Pioneer's organic display car stereos. I bought it a couple of years ago and I thought it was pretty cool then. I imagine they could have improved on it quite a bit by now. The stereo display was the majority of the face and it had two colors, blue and green. Even though there were only the two colors, it could do some pretty cool effects with shading and stuff.
Anyone remember Back to the Future Part 2?
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...deserves a Nobel Prize for inventing the most effective contraceptive to date.
The coolest voice ever.
Just wait for the whole back and front of the thing to be a OLED with ads.
And how far off are OLEDs from billboard useage?
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This just in, toddler's worldwide rejoice as the fantasy of teletubbies comes one step closer to being reality.
1. Can you wear it in the rain?
2. Can you wear it to keep warm, in bitter cold temperatures?
Jackets should be functionality first, Gadgets second.
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Untill someone hacks your T-Shirt and puts a goatse picture on the back, or DDoSes your pants.
Banaaaana!
A wearable jacket. I've been waiting for one of these for a while.
wasn't there a movie about this with jackie chan already?
Didn't seem to take much to hose that site, mirrors anyone?
you could make pr0n with girls wearing the jacket while it displays pr0n of girls making pr0n wearing the jacket!
What happens when it gets to hot to wear a jacket? Will you have to go with out your email on your arm?
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
This shirt will go great with my shoe phones...
(Hopefully someone remembers Get Smart)
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
seems the content is on a server not meant for this kind of bursty traffic
now does this mean i need to start wearing clothes?
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It's hard enough to get decent jackets for wheelchair use. We gonna get fux0red over again?
Hey son, don't wipe on your sleeve... damn, you've Slashdotted your nose again..
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See [THIS] photo, taken 0m13s ago from my jacket-cam, at GPS 17"12'W 39"1'N.
To upload a GIF image to the back of my jacket, enter filename here [ ],
then click [UPLOAD]. Please do not upload sexually offending images between
8am and 7pm weekdays.
Click here to [UNZIP] the jacket. >>
(This is the new "IN SOVIET RUSSIA")
In the future, you will have a goatse hole.
So the development of computers in clothing:
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"It is exactly the same as the change from the Ptolemaic theory to the Copernician theory: a 180 degree difference
Okay, let's calm down a little bit here and tyag this for what it is, alright? It's a computer in a coat, plain and simple. I think that's a LITTLE less important and substantial than the fundamental reordering of scientific understanding.
And even that wasn't revoloutionary... Copernicus was just the first to prove by rule what other thinkers had already hypthesized and susspected.
-rt
I like the star trek collar !
...having progressed beyond the mere "research" stage. See photo of a product available for purchase.
Futured computer come someday, wearit you will, edited by yoga the synopsis was, pioneer making neet stuff they are, prototypes a coming!
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Are the sales goons at Pioneer going to be wondering why figures are so lousy in the equatorial countries?
Or do they plan on intruducing hawaiian shirts with this technology, too?
"Sorry I didn't respond to your email, Bob. It was a really nice day."
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...if you buy that jacket. 484k for a jacket?
A good test of foolishness is if one is soon parted with their money, after all. This sounds like something to hear from a carnival barker.
"Step right up! Ladies and gentlemen! Buy our mystical psychic banana! Only $199!
Buy now! Our electronic fish can be yours for only $3000!
Become a cyborg for a mere $484,000! That's right, you can own your very own wearable computer-vest!"
I think I'd go for the banana instead. Maybe they can sell it for slightly less than that, but still...I can't see it being cheap enough to justify the price anytime soon.
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To the phrase "I'll get my coat".
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Of course in warmer weather you'll need the computer shorts/bikini, then you run into the problem of water
Even better would be a fabric that stops all wavelengths of light save one narrow band. With the right polarized glasses you'd see right through it. Give your girlfriend that snazzy outfit for her birthday, take her to a fancy restaurant, put the glasses on, and you're literally undressing her with your eyes...
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Is it still indecent exposure if you are wearing clothes that are merely displaying whats underneath? A bikini would be so awesome!
"Alcohol, cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" -Homer Simpson
A pair of pants would be great because I could wear those just about any time, but then you have the issue of frequent washing. (OK, well maybe not everyone on /. has that issue, but I do. :P) Having to dry clean the thing would be a show-stopper, I wouldn't buy it. I think it may be entirely possible to make wearable computers washable with the removal of a few components, so I'd rather go the pants route than get a jacket I'll only use sometimes.
Ideally, I want body jewelry with processing power. It comes in the shower with you, but that's probably less damaging than being thrown around in a washing machine... and you'll always be wearing it. I can't wait until my cell phone consists of an earring and a lip librette.
For those who are not so punk, how about belts that sync when you hang them on your belt rack? That way you can always accessorize well without sacrificing your computing needs.
I just want to point out that wearable computing will not catch on with women until they start offering products that match our nail polish and make our butts look good.
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/. in the future. That poor people :-)
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Perhaps it would be wise to contact the owners of the sites before posting it to
Cheers, Alex.
You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.
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Auto accidents are on the rise with a virus infects high tech clothing. While no loss of data has been reported, users of this new technology are annoyed with when the virus forces their onscreen display to say, "CLICK MY ASS".
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The site now says "suspended page.. contact billing".
Web hosts suck.
yalla wrote: /. in the future. That poor people :-)
Perhaps it would be wise to contact the owners of the sites before posting it to
Actually, the owner of the site is the one who posted it.
At the risk of sounding misanthropic, I'm getting tired of all the karma-whoring I keep seeing here lately. The photos of the Pioneer jacket and blurb about it can be seen on Yahoo News Photos but for some reason /. staff keep encouraging the karma whoring by accepting submissions like i4u's, which routinely fail to mention that he and others like him are driving traffic to their personal sites.
The obvious reasons for this are:
There's no real problem with either of these. But if you're going to drive people to your site, you should have something of value to add instead of just stealing the COPYRIGHTED Associated Press/Reuters/other news agency photos and posting them there. Using your site as redirect to the source story on another site just so you can boost your own site's traffic is almost as bad.
On top of all that, it's not surprising that ISPs will cut off the bandwidth for sites like that - as they have in i4u's case - leaving /.ers with a broken link.
More content, less karma whoring, please.
But your mindset seems to be a common one of people that forget an important feature of these technological innovations:
THE OFF SWITCH.
If I don't want my cell phone ringing while I'm having sex with my girlfriend, I turn it off.
If I want to take a stroll in Bryant Park without receiving IMs on my Zaurus, I turn IT off.
Why is the concept of control so difficult for Luddites to understand?
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Try this:
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http://www.pioneer.co.jp/corp/ir/finance/annual
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
So what? I've sucsessfully built a TV into a spoon! Now you can watch TV while you eat cereal!!
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You can buy one for only $50,000 USD (when it comes out).
Ingenious what people think of...
And what
Thanks for the link. I looked that the picture of the girl with the display on the sleeve of her jacket, and couldn't help but think what the MPAA would do after this comes out. I mean, there you are on the subway, watching a DVD you rented, you, know the kind that says "Not for public display" or some such garbage, I wonder how long before someone gets stuck with a lawsuit. Sound far fetched? Not compared to some of the other stories I have read here on /.
Anyhow, I need to get some coffee, cyas.
I can't afford a sig!
In my day all we had was Hypercolor. And we were happy to have it!
Is it to make computer enthusiasts even more stylish to the ladies?
where this'll lead.
Some poor sucker is hosting his personnal do-it-yourself bonzai page off his jacket when some slashdot editor becomes fascinated with the topic and posts a story linking to it.
End result? Some poor shmuck, sitting down having a nice cup of tea is burned to death as his jacket slowly melts around him.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
are a problem all by themselves, with or without water.
Hey, Kayoko, I have the same suit on me, Do you mind I give a handshake while slashdotting your suit?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
with a bunch of small video cameras on one side, and the panels on the other, you can accomplish invisibility.
:)
almost.
cool
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