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Wearable Technology Fashion Show

Posted by michael on from the beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-camera-holder dept.

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."

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  1. uhh.. by garcia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Semi-starved models flounced around the runway sporting mobile (and not so mobile) gear, accessories and smart clothing.

    I realize that women have been getting into the geek market lately (with the iPod-mini, various games, etc) but man, I really don't see how this fashion show was giving me any inkling of how this stuff would look on ME.

    90 pound models wearing sheer clothing and silver head gear, helmets, and carrying large backpacks isn't exactly what I think works.

    Show me people dressed in t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. Show me men/women dressed in business suits.

  2. Back in the 1950's by PeterCook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The folks at the Eckert Mauchly Corporation in Philadelphia (makers of the UNIVAC computer) staged all kinds of stunts like this.

    They once had a woman in a Maidenform bra pose next to the UNIVAC for the "You Never Know Where The Maidenform Lady will show up next" ad campaign.

    Also many then famous celebrities posed with the UNIVAC like Angie Dickinson, Pat Boone, John Wayne and others.