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More on E-textiles: Electronic Smart Fabric
Little Hamster writes "The IEEE spectrum has an article on e-textile, where conductive fibers woven into fabric using standard textile techniques carry power to sensors, actuators and microcontrollers embedded in the cloth. The result is snowmobilers jacket that can detect crashes and txt an SMS message for help, carpet that can detect motion, or a T-shirt that shows videos. Oh, and the smart fabric is washable too."
/me glances over today's headlines So, what we can look forward to seeing are t-shirts that can answer homework questions. Rock on!
I know nothing
What happens when my shirt or pants lock up?
--- #@$DF@#2%@^%3^&*$%FRHG%%[NO CARRIER]
I told you not to bleach my monitor, it causes all the colors to wash out!
~S
I can't wait until the first time someone says, "Hey, you have a loose thread", yanks it, and gets a voltage shock.
:)
Hmm...come to think of it, that'd be a worthwhile application...I'd buy one.
Clothes that report whenever they are being removed to the spouse.
a high tech chastity belt!
Wondering what that guy is doing with your daughter? This sensors on her clothes will monitor everything from body temperature, to heart rate, to surface contact! Using this you can determine if articles have been removed and remotely activate an electric shock - or using the builting GPS, track down the guy and beat him to a pulp the old fasion way!
Furthermore, the dancing images of Hello Kitty displayed on the clothing will ensure that any girl will be dying to have them! Yours for only $199.99!
I was staring at your video, honest.
Great, just what the world needs, a Tommy Hilfiger jacket that can implement the [marquee] tag.
KFG
detect when you've run out of TP in a public toilet and send txt for help?
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Now that's what I call multi-threaded computing!
how 'bout shoes that can detect someone is trying to light a fuse stuck into them?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Before we see the Blue Shorts of Death? Will we have to drop our pants to "reboot"?
I can see a lot of potential here if the technology gets far enough...instead of a wrist-mounted little GPS device that shows "you are here" info, you might have the length of an entire shirt-sleeve for a display. Maybe Big Brother can implement some sort of forced personal information display so that wi-fi sensors in the shirt respond to remote commands issued by police to display your name, address, etc. across the front or back of your shirt. Heck, they could just forget that and track you using the homing signal in your cyber-undies.
And, of course, the obvious: the day somebody ports an emulator or three to ThreadIX, the Clothing Operating System of the Future, "pocket pool" will take on a whole new meaning.
"Linux doesn't exist. Everyone knows Linux is an unlicensed version of Unix"- Kieren O'Shaughnessy
So now when I get my coffee from that darling teeny-bopper downstairs I'll be forced to see Brittany Spears and Justin Timberlake VIDEOS on her shirts. Oh the pain.
Well, at least that gives me an excuse to stare.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
Put a uniquie indentifier in your razor and everyone is pissed put an ENTIRE F***ing COMPUTER in your shirt and noone thinks that might be a little open to abuse?
A flexible data bus in Sensatex's SmartShirt prototype carries signals from various sensors plugged into connectors in the shirt to a controller at the waist. An optical fiber woven through the shirt can detect penetration by a bullet.
I'm not sure I'd need sensors on my shirt to be able to tell if it had been penetrated by a bullet-- unless I was far enough away from my shirt, and then I'd wonder why it was getting shot at.
snowmobilers jacket that can detect crashes and txt an SMS message for help, carpet that can detect motion, or a T-shirt that shows videos
What about some moral fiber that can detect corrupt CEO's?
(rimshot)
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
"Drying mode on...
"Your jacket is now dry."
The best part of this is that the jocks would never be able to hack the nerds clothes, but nerds could hack their letterman jackets all day long and they would never know who was doing it! Oh, sweet revenge :)
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Until they decide to just pulverise the first nerd they see
Software controls the communications inside the on-fabric network and can send radio signals using Bluetooth or any flavor of the IEEE 802.11 wireless standard to PCs and PDAs, and over the Internet.
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I am sure someone can find a way to hack it and put malicious content on your t-shirt. Let say you are walking down the street and suddenly someone put some porn on your shirt, that can be very embarrassing
I don't have a sig.
... CyberJack ... Star Wars ... Star Trek ...
Only on /. would you see a statement like the first, backed up by citing examples from Science Fiction. ;)
You know what?
Norton AntiVirus for Clothing 2003 3-Ply Edition
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
I'd rather have a carpet that would change.
that way when I have a party and someone pukes on it, and its still stained after I clean it up, the carpet can change to match the color of the carpet, and thereby mask the stain...
Just don't go drinking southern comfort, I don't think that a nuclear orange carpet would look good, but by that thought I can't think of any shade of puke that would look good.
moo.