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'Smart' Clothing: A Fashion Show
Roland Piquepaille writes "Julia Fields wrote a very well-documented article about 'smart' clothing that "would do everything from deliver a massage and improve your golf swing to change colour according to the weather" for the Edinburgh Evening News, "Tech out the latest in fashion." Fields spoke with Professor George Stylios from the Heriot-Watt University School of Textiles and Design who is working on clothes that can save lives. "This technology isn't going to go away. In 20 or 30 years, computers, telephones, and televisions will become part of our intimate clothing," he said. For more information, please read the original article. But for illustrations, visit this photo gallery. It contains pictures of Elise Co's Puddlejumper jacket, Hussein Chalayan's airplane dress, Adeline Andre's ScentOrgan dress and other smart clothes."
Smart Clothing? Does this mean I won't get yelled at for my clothes not matching anymore?!
Sheer fabrics on hot models.
Jeers: to science for failing to bring us flying cars by 2000.
there now i did it I offended Rob Malta, prepare to be modded down
Go to a sporting goods store and get yourself a fishing vest. You can look like a techno-wanker so much cheaper.
I like the rain jacket:
High voltage inverter to power EL panels + water + human body = fun!
I wasn't staring at your boobs, I was checking the time!!
I would love to touch her cute nyloned legs---yum yum---she is really hote. such a cute girl
Have you guys seen Tuxedo starring Jackie Chan?, Id like to have that suit so that I could kung-fu all of sco
-On ones tombstone there will be 2 dates, Make the dash between them count!
I plan on keeping my clothes for at least another 20 to 30 years after looking at the pictures in the article. Those clothes are absolutely hideous and when I press buttons I want something hard to push against, thats half the fun. Who wants to emit all of these "magic wellness molecules." Sounds a bit questionable to me. So you can keep smart clothes I'll stick with my current dumb clothes.
Checking out my form of escapism.
This stuff won't help you get laid.
But Hemos may give give you a BJ if you whisper linux in his ear.
this will take off just like wearable computing, speech recognition and virtual reality has
In 20 or 30 years, computers, telephones, and televisions will become part of our intimate clothing...
Victoria's Secret to merge with Fry's. Film at 11.
So I'll have to strip down to answer my ringing undies*?
*Spiderman underoos.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
coupling the obsolescence cycle of computers with that of clothing. So when fashion trends come back around, you can't pull the clothes out of the back of the closet to wear again.
"Hey, cool tie! Oh, waitaminute... it's ancient. It only has a 133MHz StrongARM processor. How droll."
- Leo
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
I predict a new meaning to the AT&T commercial slogan -- "Reach out and touch someone!"
Does this mean the possibility of wearing Microsoft pants the crash?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...piercings of the mommy/daddy parts? I mean, why go through that pain if I can get the Ren and Stimpy boxers with the built in massager? Hell this may even save my marriage ;-)
You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.
The objective is for the wearer to create their own personal 'smell bubble', by delivering a spray of magic wellness molecules to key points of the body in order to activate the smell centre. "magic wellness molecules"? "key points of the body"? What the hell is this talking about? Did they extract the magical essence of 100 smurfs? Have they finally discovered real mitichlorides (sp?)? Or does it just mean, "When your pits stink, they'll get sprayed with deodorant"?
In a recent /. posting about avoiding the "Batbelt Effect", someone mentioned Eric Le Fou (http://ericlefou.1.online.fr/), who got into the Guinness World Records Book for having a set of clothes containing ~1300 useful items. (http://ericlefou.1.online.fr/MES_TRUCS/MESobjets/ Mon_equipement/international.htm) They weren't exactly "smart" clothing though.
d'oh
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Like most fashion shows, one has to ask: "Who in the hell would wear this stuff?!"
With the exception of the stylish and practical Burton Amp jacket (also mentioned on /. some time back), the rest of the stuff is gaudy at best. I'll stick with my low-tech jeans and T-shirts for now, thank you.
Changes colour according to the weather. Sigh. What about changing its waterproofness according to the weather? This is on a par with "So which car would go faster, a red one or a blue one?"
Dumping my snowboard wearing the Burton ski jacket. With each tumble the station & volume changes.
Not only will I LOOK bad, I'll sound stupid too.
Sounds like a scene out of the Simpsons:
D'oh! "today in the news" D'oh! "Exit light, Enter night.." D'oh! "I just called to say.." D'oh!
Holy s-, it's Jesus!
As much fun as surfing the internet from your shirt would be, what about just smart-matching clothes, that change color to match each other + your skin tone, etc? That would be awesome for us matching-clothing challenged persons.
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Why would you ever want to wear clothes to change color based on the weather? Suddenly, your well-coordinated ensemble turns into a clown suit... sounds unappealing to me.
Well TBH as much as I would like intellgent clothing which these clothes just remind me of saftey suits used in nuclear reactor. Now I know fashion designers live on cloud9 but if they look at the target market of geeks who will be the first adopters it ain't going to help
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"(AP) In the news today, the RIAA has sued Martin Winkleberry of Moose Wart, North Dakota alledging that his Levi's Dockers downloaded $660,000,000 million worth of copyrighted music files. During the arrest, Officer Ludmax was overheard to comment 'Is that a complete set of Beatles album files in your pants, or are you just glad to see me?' "
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Pardon me, miss, but I can see your panties through your "smell bubble". [See the Picture]
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
I'm still holding out for that +5 Cloak of Non-Dweebiness.[*]
When I get that and my flying car, the girls will love me.
[*] Cannot be worn by Rangers, Paladins, Television Meteorologists, and other naturally square characters.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If any of the computerized clothing items contain Linux programming, SCO could literarlly sue the pants off you.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This, way back in June.
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
HyperColor shirts make fashion comeback! We all surrender to our color changing overlords... in Soviet Russia... with hot grits... in Natelie Portmans pants... Seriously though, while satisfying the geek kid in me, these clothes really don't do much for the practical adult side. Until my ungeekly girlfriend wants technofied clothes, these aren't gonna sell much of anything, at least in Europe/US. I envision this stuff taking off in Japan much sooner than here. That's where I would try to market it.
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"
The correct joke should be: "Is that a Bananarama in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"
Forget the age-old technique of reducing your nervousness as a public speaker by imagine everyone without pants.
Now you can just make their pants fall down!
I can see it already: Microsoft RPC (Remote Pants Call) vulnerability discovered.
You could cause a buffer overflow...in someone's pants!
What about viruses? Could I unleash W32@Pants on the unsuspecting fashion world?
What if your jacket was a Mac and your pants run Windows? Would you need Samba to let your pants and yourt shirt communicate?
Man, why didn't I go into fashion design--you could blame mismatched colors and patterns on the user--RTFM, you idiot, your tie's crashed...
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
> This technology isn't going to go away. In 20 or
> 30 years, computers, telephones, and televisions
> will become part of our intimate clothing,"
A TV set in my underwear? No thanks.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Oh yeah, I'll get this one for my gf's birthday, I'm sure she will _love_ it and let me feel her appreciation for it!
</sarcasm>
Just a thought...
--This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
Wait until you start wearing one of these jackets. Except for the see-through smell jacket your looking at a body-cavity search!
Making a shirt that will improve your golf swing is the easy part. The difficult part will be getting it past the Royal & Ancient dress code committee.
Burton do (or did) a jacket with connectors for an iPod complete with controls on the sleeve. A friend has one and it's well cool. Expensive though at $500. Amp Jacket PR release
Clothes that do something conventient (like change color for coordination) are only a step away from clothes that do something inconvenient (like tell the police where you were two hours ago, no need for a search warrant). I warned about this almost a year ago.
Clothing that's smarter than the person wearing the clothing!
from the wouldn't_want_to_wear_that_out dept.:
(CBS) A series of letters to hometown newspapers, purportedly written by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, contain identical language, according to the Gannett News Service. The letters praise the U.S. effort to rebuild the war-torn Mideast nation.
Gannett said it had turned up 11 identical letters from soldiers serving in Iraq with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment. Six of the soldiers contacted by Gannett said they knew of the letters and agreed with their substance, but hadn't written them.
But another letter, purportedly written by a GI hospitalized for wounds suffered in a grenade attack, came as a surprise to Pfc. Nick Deaconson of Beckley, W.Va., according to his dad.
The soldier received a congratulatory phone call from his father, Timothy, for getting the letter published in the local newspaper.
"When I told him he wrote such a good letter, he said: 'What letter?'" Timothy Deaconson told Gannett. "This is just not his (writing) style."---
we should get that kind of 'coverage' for the creator's planet/population rescue initiative? that kind of high FUDgerIE could have only come from that giaNT ?pr? ?firm? fuddles&fudstorm et AL?
apparently, the felonous fauxking ediots upon the capitollist hill annex of wall street of deceit still think the creator is not watching/doesn't exist?
the lights are coming up now. you know who to consult with/trust, & where to look?
televisions will become part of our intimate clothing
So in 20-30 years it will be fashionable to look like a Teletubby? Scary.
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Notice the last entry in sports bras. Those engineers have a partially clothed women in the room and their looking at their wires and scope!
Insert joke about engineers getting a feel here
I used to wonder what was so holy about a silent night, now I have a child.
"Barb, look at Joe. Why is he wearing a tuxedo?"
"He just switched to Linux"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
With mp3's always there and my documents this would be fantastic...
However I am not convinced about typing emails on my jumper though I do think animated t-shirts are round the corner....
---- The Open Source Record Label : : LOCARECORDS.COM
This will put new meaning to the shirt that says:
C:\dos\
C:\dos\run\
\run\dos\run\
-seriv
And we wonder why the Machines will rise up to enslave us!
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
10. "Dude, you're getting new underwear"
9. The Apple Figleaf Newton
8. Atari FunPants, complete with joystick.
7. The deceased laid out in a shroud that is running *BSD, all ready for the funeral.
6. Trademark Gateway-brand white underwear with large brown spots all over it.
5. Levi's button-USB
4. Blue jeans, blue tooth.
3. The digital divide starts to really hit the nudist colonies pretty bad.
2. Hands-free trouser-mouse
1. If you wear clothes, you have to pay $669 to SCO.
0. "I, for one, welcome our new WiFi-enabled parka overlords"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I'm hoping they integrate some GPS tracking, or going to the gym could cost you thousands.
GL
Burton also owns a company called Analog who make a jacket like the Amp only called the MD Clone(Styled on a storm trooper outfit only all black) this comes with an MiniDisc player(as the name suggests) and has a slightly different control panel on the sleeve.
Trust me on this though, it is not as simple as the picture implies to use the buttons, you have to squeeze from both sides, and find the "lucky spot" for it to work, falling isn't going to do this although a well placed knock to the chest will sometimes start it if you don't have the minidisc buttons locked.
The think that impressed most people though(oddly enough) was the power switch inside the pocket to stop the buttons from working while your not wearing the jacket.
N-Sanity
n-sanity.net
It's just fun. Like those shoes that light up with every step that children get to wear. I think it would be really cool, on a drizzly night, to see pedestrians hurrying by, quietly flickering. ...especially if I was indoors :-)
The only thing that would bother me about the raincoat is power consumption. I wouldn't want to change the batteries on my coat all the time. I bet they could power it the same way they power those no-battery-no-wind wristwatches that get recharged by tiny weight swinging whenever you move your arm.
Also, an on/off switch to handle mosoon conditions might be appropriate.
By the way, in regards to those light-up sneakers. I don't understand why they don't make those for adults. Lots of sneakers look ridiculously flashy already, it's not as if the lights are going to make them substantially less cool. (Maybe there are adult-sized light-up sneakers and I just haven't seen them. I don't buy sneakers very often, so I'm probably just out of the loop.)
Or, as mentioned, a jacket that will monitor and correct your golf swing. At least on the golf course you don't really have to worry what clothes you wear, now do you?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
"This technology isn't going to go away. In 20 or 30 years, computers, telephones, and televisions will become part of our intimate clothing,"
How futuristic! TV and telephone in my underpants!
"Smart" and "fashion" in one sentence? Give me a break! Repeat after me, kids: smart people don't need fashion. Let's face it: fashion is only for people who need some way to make up for the obvious lack of intelligence.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
computers, telephones, and televisions will become part of our intimate clothing.
Does that mean Im going to have to put up with some power pack knocking against my balls all day? Hmmm....
1. Collect underwear
2. Self-collecting underwear
3. Profit!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
if the "smart clothing" crashes, does the wearer have to strip naked, reboot his clothes and put them back on?
would do everything from deliver a massage and improve your golf swing to change colour according to the weather
Could it spell color the way I want it to? Or is it to busy giving me a massage to print the message?
I go to a lot of conferences, etc. where you are required to wear a badge. Some of these are pin-on or magnet-based... *pins badge on* ZZZT... Damn! I just spiked my system bus! And you thought the tags in the collar of your shirt itched, just wait until you start experiencing "hot-spots". I'd prefer my smart clothing in accessory items that can be used with different outfits.
Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it. ~A. Perlis
Sometimes it's fun to read a technology article written by someone who has no clue. I especially liked the bits about the "spray of magic wellness molecules," and the researchers "demonstrating the technology device." Alas, I know and work with many people who already have their own personal scent bubbles.
Your jacket is now dry.
The release of these clothing items will soon be followed by the much-sought-after Remote Transparency Crack.
Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it. ~A. Perlis
""So which car would go faster, a red one or a blue one?" The blue one of course because it absorbs more of the higher freq. light than the red one. "
No, the red one is faster. Remember the Doppler Shift: the car that is red is the one that has already passed you.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
how does thou get thru airport security
without bringing down the house?
Instead of making the clothes smarter, they should try making the people wearing them smarter!
Interesting how the only picture they offered a larger view of is the one of the woman wearing the smart-bra... :)
w00t! "an airplane dress that changes shape by remote control", the streets are gonna look a lot more interesting when these are in fashion, think of all those script-kiddies remote-configuring other peoples dresses to the latest fashion on-the-fly.
The real question is, when will pr0n become a part of our intimate clothing?
Here is my list of tech clothing that I would like to be developed.
A belt with intragrated wifi, either 2 Gb Flash HD or a 20 to 40 Heavy duty shock proof HD, GPS, and nothing else.
Undies. I don't really want any tech in my undies thank you very much. Something helpful would be diaper undies that would "monitor" body wastes to tell the health of babies or infirm citizens. They could also be used to "detect" illegal substances ingested.
Socks... I'd want one sock to regenerate the other sock that's enough to ask for there.
Bra... I'd don't wear 'em, but I'd say if you are going to put tech in there you'd want an intergrated breast exam to check for breast cancer. I guess a heart monitor as well.
Pants.. I'd want self cleaning (auto dry cleaning) pants with auto inventory. That way I'd aways know what I left in my pockets when I take them off at home. I guess color and texture changing would be nice. You could have dockers at work and at home you could have black silk slacks without changing clothes. I'd like more front pockets too.
Shirts.. pretty much the same as the pants. I'd want self cleaning (auto dry cleaning,) color and texture changing.
Gloves.. would have positional senors to determine where your fingers are. Would be comfortable to wear 24x7.
Glasses. I want my glasses to be my computer monitor. I'd would also like them to have built in speakers so that they could be primary video and audio output of my personal computer.
"Philips Labs, at Redhill in Surrey, are currently designing clothes that keep you warm in the cold and cool in the heat by responding to the body's shivering."
If this thing's responding to the amount that my body is shivering, then I'd have to say if pretty well missed the fucking boat on keeping me "warm".
Get off my virtual lawn, you damned virtual kids!
Hey at least you don't have to worry about zipping up after a trip to the bathroom... just make sure you're properly tucked in first....yeeeouch. We've all seen There's Somthign about Mary... don't need any "frank and beans" problems.
When I read articles like tis it makes me wonder why we are doing all this?
Massage shirts? I can't helpbut laugh at this thought...a chair sure..but a shirt is taking mobility for luxuries too far.
What's next....an in-dash microwave in your mercedes? since your too mobile to go home to make hot-pockets there?
Or is this just some high-tech way of dealing with people who are so massively overworked by their employers that they don't even go home until it's saturday night, and start this cycle over agian on sunday night? If so, I'd think it would be a good time for that individual to seek other places of employment.
I do see such gizmos as helping one who is in that state however.
There seems to be a lot of interest in this topic in the general news as well as tech related sites like Slashdot. What is going on here? Are these people drumming up interest to get some VC money?
(I know you like us Brits and our quaint spelling really, but I couldn't resist)
Hmmm, maybe a shirt that could re-direct the "I'm with Stupid" arrow to whomever in the room has the lowest IQ ?
On the practical side... integrate tiny gas detectors - no longer could your buddies disavow foul odors, or a spouse blame it on the dog !
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
No, it doesn't mean that you won't get yelled at for wearing clothing which doesn't match. What it DOES mean that you will have to wear clothing in the future if you want people to acknowledge your existence as a technophile. Naked people will no longer be able to pretend that they have any appreciation of tech at all. You'll at least have to wear something on your head.
In the worst case scenario, however, you could end up spending a long, insanely ugly, time in some government security cage for what you were wearing on any given day. What if a virus got into your underware and launched a denial of service attack on somebody else's underwear? They would bulldoze your orchards and throw you into a pit with a tiny opening at the top. Are you sure you want to live in a world where the clothing you wear can do things without your knowledge that can get you sent up like that?
I wonder how far off we are from boxers that will automatically scratch your ass for you.
Well, I can certainly see that being a target for hackers!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
In 20 or 30 years, computers, telephones, and televisions will become part of our intimate clothing,"
So now we can display p0rn right ON our undies? What a time saver!
When the clothes 'feels' my emptiness and turn transparent, it becomes the "New Clothes of the King"... only the SMARTEST can see it.
Quite a SMART clothes.
MOD PARENT UP!!! :-))))