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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."
can it act as a rain coat?
I write code.
If we based future research upon the answer to the question, "What's the point, does anyone actually need this?", I think we would fail to advance as far as we have today...
Japanese Transparent Skirts and Optical Camouflage Research> . Now that is what I call cool tech.
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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.
You say that like a cotton t-shirt isn't smarter than the average American.
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?
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.
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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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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.
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A wearable jacket. I've been waiting for one of these for a while.
It should, it will have a spell check.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
you could make pr0n with girls wearing the jacket while it displays pr0n of girls making pr0n wearing the jacket!
Exactly. Do we really need semi-conductors when tubes work just fine? Given the popularity of radio sets, the reduction in power consumption was most spiffy, let alone benifits of portable transister radios.
Logical applications:
1. Mobile phones. resolves the issue of wrist watch based trancievers being too bulky. [side note, would be spiffy if your jacket phone took off the shelf rechargable batteries] Mobile video phones as well.
2. Mobile media players. Portable media players, wether they be cassette, CD, or solid state digital are subject to being thrashed about on the body, bumping into things, and falling off.
3. Displays. thinner display could be the future to digital paper.
4. Portable computing. The artical doesn't cover input, to me it seems a rather nice alternative to lugging around a laptop.
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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)
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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
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http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/ oc.html
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?
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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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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!
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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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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.
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