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Wearable Technology Fashion Show
jlouderb writes "I know, it's been done before. But at the recent CTIA show I stumbled onto a wearable computing fashion show. It was weird. I had my camera and filched a copy of the show script. Combined together, you get a bizarre pastiche of scrawny models attempting to make phones, notebooks, video cameras and more into fashion statements. Just too surreal for words."
strap on vibrators ?
"I need a new pair of pants, my other ones have a virus!"
I don't know if it's just me, but doesn't the first model in the set of pictures (Nomad Augmented Vision System) look like some random Borg like creature with her headset and red-eye?
I'll have you know I've been wearing a VAX since the mid 70s.
Mobile power computing AND a good daily workout.
Beep beep.
A legitimate reason for cameras in shoes, besides for taking upskirt pictures. Technology rules!
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
Wire Girl (designed by Gabriele Semeco) represents our bodies chained to our wired technology. Thought I was reading a new strongbad email for a minute.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
and in other news, SCO has announced that it is extending its lawsuits to cover clothing that contains technology that may somehow be infringing on SCO's intellectual property.
The technology, not the models.
Just kidding.
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This is a great excuse to post a nice slideshow of some hot babes. Great job.
It provides a great break to the workday, right around lunchtime.
Oh, and the new technology is nice too.
I'd like to defrag that!
It works for me...
Well, Bill, I don't think they will sell any of this stuff by strapping it to 250 pound pasty white geek guys with a bottle of Dew in one hand.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Are those breast implants or armor plating (blue bikini)???
Now that's wearable technology in action.
A form-fitting, hand-controlled, twenty-first century navigator, this device manipulates the Internet?s visual data field as the user moves through three-dimension cyberspace with the ease of air typing. Your desires are communicated via beams of light as optical reflectance ushers in a new era in human interface.
Oh, baby, you got it all! Beam me your desires and we'll navigate through 21st century cyberspace together.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Sub-etheric vibrations? Ectoplasmic vibrations? Good vibrations?
Danke tres mucho, tovarishch.
That could be potentially embarrassing, no?
That redhead certainly gets me glowing.
Danke tres mucho, tovarishch.
If you think the pics look funny now, just wait 50 years. It will be the equivalent of a 60's mod girl with a reel to reel strapped to her ass.
It's possible that everyone who posts to this thread will actually RTFA (or at least look at the pictures) for a change.
Years ago when invited to a Canon Computer show at the now out of business Fashion Cafe in NYC (Naomi Campbell was there) Canon attempted to create a fashion show out of their hardware.
Among the notable and memorable features were:
A woman that was dressed in about 200 sewn together Canon CD's.
A guy rollerblading with an open working laptop in one hand and CD's in the other (on a 3 foot wide ramp 4 feet from the floor)
And finally a model balancing (probably painfully) and Canon inkjet printer on her head and power cord dangling behind her.
People - Computers are not a fashion statement...
By tracking these movements the user can type on a non-existant keyboard and navigate a 3d "desktop" in real space. Metaphors provide interfaces for important applications. Integrate an audio device with this and you can easily move your entire office to the bench in the park without anyone being the wiser.
I can just see people pointing fingers and laughing at the "air typing". Like when someone's singing in the car at a stoplight. Or Wonder Woman flying by sitting down in her invisible jet.
my jacket keeps segfaulting so ive gotta stay in and recompile it
Yeah, I think I saw a guy using this technology. At the time, I just assumed that he was one of those psychotic homeless people.
Still not sure what the shopping trolley full of old newspapers was for, though.
Seriously, though, it's bad enough with these new hands-free sets for people's mobiles. Time was, you see a guy walking along conducting a one-sdied conversation with the voices that only he can hear, and you know to give him a wide berth. Now they're everywhere.
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
Beautiful. I just love watching people who appear to be hyper-active psychotic schizos as they walk down the street and drive their cars. Hmmm, I see a person talking to himself, his eyes wildly darting in all directions, and his arms/hands pointing randomly (fingertip sensors in gloves). Maybe if someone makes a sensor that can be implanted into your rear, we can also see some hip action.
add backdoors to the software...
Achille Talon
Hop!
You're missing one of the basic premises of marketing. The message here is that if you buy the products that the models are promoting, not only will you look and be as cool as they are, they and other highly attractive females will want to have sex with you!
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The best part of it all is the looks on all the geeks' faces in the crowd (when you can see them)....they're obviously not used to seeing beautiful and/or scantily clad women in person ;).
I belong to the ______ generation.
It is getting worse isn't it....
Was walking to work the other day and heard
a sexy female voice behind me say "Hi, how are you?" (she had such a nice voice too).
I turned to look at her, she looked at me
I said, "Not bad, you?"
Then I notice the bloody cell phone & ear piece
She walks off , giggling & telling other person
all about it.
Bugger
I now HATE those damned things
Help! help!, the termites are eating my DRAM!!!
The JoyDress is integrated with flexible vibrapads that vibrate by programmed impulses from a thin, user-controlled command pad (...)
Baby, I can hack into your dress, and program impulses to make you feel like you've never felt before. I can make it vibrate and give you sensations you never thought possible -- pleasure you only dreamed about. Do you know what it means to be a woman ? Do you know just how many "multiple" means -- and how far I can lead you ? Come on now, naughty, open up that telnet connection...
Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
They're literally going to sue the pants off people.
If Microsoft gets involved, would some poor woman show up at an event only to discover the gizmo attached to her dress has malfunctioned and she's wearing a Blue Skirt Of Death?
... But I know what I... excuse me, my pant's are ringing...
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
Mr. Bill? Oh noooooooooo!...
1. build cell phones with nipple clamps.
2. ?????
3. Profit!!!!!!