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Video T-shirts

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Huh? by Cyno01 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    A new t-shirt with an 11" display and 4 stereo speakers was unveiled at E3 last week
    If its stereo doesn't it only need 2?
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  2. Without Pictures this is just a tease by Cyberllama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the ONLY one having troubles visualizing what this would look like?

    So many questions, what powers it, how thick/heavy is it, what's the resolution of the screen.

    Without pictures I just can't make anything out of this story.

  3. somebody mod parent up by evenprime · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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?)

    any max headroom reference deserves an automatic +1 for coolness. It is sad how few nerds remember....

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  4. "Based off of" or "a rape of?" by Valdrax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry -- it's not really a movie based off of a book either.

    I swear. This is going to be a worse rape of a book than Starship Troopers. Take one wide-eyed, enthusiastic book about a future of living with robots and turn it into a Frankenstein/Terminator science horror movie with Will Smith once again somehow dragging racism into the plot like he did with Wild Wild West. I felt sick after seeing the trailer. Honestly, next time Hollywood licenses a SF/F book that I've enjoyed, I'm burning the studios down proactively.

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  5. Pictures...Not Very Elegant by theslashdude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It may be the first time it's been done, but judging by the pictures, it's not a very elegant solution. It's not so much a video t-shirt, but a t-shirt with a hole in it covering up what is probably a heavy vest carrying all the equipament. I was expecting some new technology with flexible OLED's or something mounted right on the shirt. This is nothing more then anyone here could do with an old laptop and a black t-shirt.