'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."

Comments

Smell Bubble

[gricholson75]

The objective is for the wearer to create their own personal 'smell bubble'

I think our sysadmin already has this clothing.

Not for me

[eenglish_ca]

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.

Um...

[da3dAlus]

Pardon me, miss, but I can see your panties through your "smell bubble". [See the Picture]

SCO problems

[AtariAmarok]

If any of the computerized clothing items contain Linux programming, SCO could literarlly sue the pants off you.