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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."
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.
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"?
"(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.
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.
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
They skipped flying cars and are going straight for flying underwear.
KFG
1. Collect underwear
2. Self-collecting underwear
3. Profit!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
"Looks like someone just had a fax..." /obvious
Life is like surrealism: if you have to have it explained to you, you can't afford it.