Video T-shirts

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Posted by michael on Thursday May 20, 2004 @02:33AM from the dry-clean-only dept.

Lord_Dweomer writes "The Hollywood Reporter brings us the next trick up marketers' sleeves. A new t-shirt with an 11" display and 4 stereo speakers was unveiled at E3 last week playing a trailer of the new I, Robot movie soon to be released. Unfortunately the company behind them, San Francisco based Brand Marketers, has announced that they will not be for individual sale. When will I be able to watch a movie on my sleeve?!" Update: 05/20 15:38 GMT by M : i4u writes "We just reported about Irish Adwalker which uses Xybernaut equipment for a more high-end Video T-shirt. Also we saw the brandmarketers Video T-Shirt at the Wired Nextfest 2004."

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Was it the TV or.... by Mz6 · 2004-05-20 02:34 · Score: 4, Funny

"The two women who wore the video T-shirts as they walked around E3 drew crowds and TV news crews on hand to cover the gaming conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center."
With this coming from a marketing company, something tells me that the interest wasn't the shirt, but rather what's behind it, literally.

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1. Re:Was it the TV or.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-20 02:37 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It was the first 3D trailer that you could watch without special glasses!
2. Re:Was it the TV or.... by flyneye · 2004-05-20 02:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I wonder if a sufficiently endowed woman wearing one would provide an IMAX sort of display.
  
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3. Re:Was it the TV or.... by shystershep · 2004-05-20 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I think what you'd get in that case is a sort of fish-eye distortion. What you need is a model with, ahem, sufficient girth to support the wide screen.
  
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But . . . but . . . by shystershep · 2004-05-20 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny

. . . I'm supposed to be staring at your chest, aren't I?

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When? by Patik · 2004-05-20 02:35 · Score: 3, Funny

When will I be able to watch a movie on my sleeve?!
As soon as you go to the gym and grow some 11" biceps.
next trick up marketers' sleeves by Napoleon+Blownapart · 2004-05-20 02:36 · Score: 1, Funny

T-shirts have sleeves ?!
If I wanted ... by burgburgburg · 2004-05-20 02:37 · Score: 3, Funny

to be treated like a piece of furniture, I'd just go home to my family.
I want other people to be MY piece of furniture.
Teletubbies by FooMasterZero · 2004-05-20 02:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Wonder if they will sue over trademark infringement ?
1. Re:Teletubbies by WIAKywbfatw · 2004-05-20 02:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Time for Brand Marketers bye-bye...
  
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Depends... by not_a_product_id · 2004-05-20 02:39 · Score: 4, Funny

... on how fast your arm is moving. (or wasnt' that the kind of movie you had in mind?)

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It seems that advertising will soon be everywhere by spidergoat2 · 2004-05-20 02:40 · Score: 3, Funny

[This space for rent. Inquire within.]
Re:I want a video of this on my t-shirt... by Patrik_AKA_RedX · 2004-05-20 02:40 · Score: 2, Funny

For some reason links with the form of xxxxSE.CX terrify me. Strangely I can't remember why...
Oh wait... oh no the images came back! Oh the pain, the pain!
Rack Mounted by NodeZero · 2004-05-20 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Brings more meaning to rack mounted hardware.

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It said the speakers were stereo. Need only one? by expro · 2004-05-20 02:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Must be some sort of holographic audio device. Reminds me of a speaker I saw someone using, connected to his clock radio, that said "Stereo" in big letters. I was really impressed.
ah ha by WormholeFiend · 2004-05-20 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny

as soon as I get me one of these video t-shirts, I'm gonna walk around playing Blipverts and giving people headaches, epileptic seizures (and maybe even a few explosions?)
Re:What's next... by Adriax · 2004-05-20 03:06 · Score: 4, Funny

You can bet the engineers are working non-stop to develop a touch screen control version of this.

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Re:Huh? by SmackCrackandPot · 2004-05-20 03:16 · Score: 2, Funny

The extra two speakers are for redundancy.

That's what the organisers said at the last conference I attended.
camo by nanojath · 2004-05-20 03:18 · Score: 3, Funny

"active camoflage" - pfft - I can TOTALLY see that guy.

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