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Wearable Customizable Displays

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the animated-shirt-logos dept.

igargoyle writes "France Telecom has done some fun R&D to display pixilated images from your cellphone on your shirt or sleeve. These raver garments can even be used as a standalone device that can animate based on sounds and gestures. With better resolution, designer memes and logos might become the hot intellectual property being shared by the young hipsters. Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit."

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  1. animation ? by mirko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could be cool to wear a demo or a game of life :)

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  2. Will be really interesting ... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... if T-Shirt spammers start to sent typical spam messages (probably with the help of virii). Imagine your T-Shirt suddenly turning to "cheap Viagra at www.somewhere.com". But even more interesting would it be for girls if suddenly a typical porn message shows up on their back ...

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  3. Nothing new with ads... by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit

    People are already paying for the apparent privilidge of advertising nike and Abercrombe and what not. If anything, it'll just become the rotating billboard of the fashion industry, every thirty seconds it changes to another advertisment. Now, the real problem is when the wrong types of ads flash across your chest. Think about it, you're trying to pick up chicks and an add like "Levitra helped me with my erectile dysfunction" comes up. Bad news all around.

  4. This will bring... by Biogenesis · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..."Kick me" into the 21st century!

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  5. Maybe? by tempest303 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit."

    Yeah, and maybe Microsoft would love to see SCO win their case with IBM...

    Is there really any question that marketing people would love to exploit something like this? Any surface they can manage to slap a brand name onto, they'll use.

    I'll leave you all with a little Bill Hicks:

    "By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. No, really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, okay? Kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good. This is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Just planting seeds... I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." There's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
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  6. Pixilated images by ericvids · · Score: 3, Funny
    France Telecom has done some fun R&D to display pixilated images from your cellphone on your shirt or sleeve. These raver garments can even be used as a standalone device that can animate based on sounds and gestures.
    I dunno, but it's not my style to put pictures of animated drunk people on my shirt. ...

    Oh, you mean pixellated.

    (Previous comment might sound snobbish, but I learned the meaning of aforementioned word the hard way -- after the graduate aptitude test I took, where the friggin' word showed up. Not fun.)
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  7. It's just wrong. Oh so wrong. by sakusha · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can'e believe the stupid demo videos. In one segment, a guest arrives at a conference or hotel or something, he is greeted by a woman with a high-collared jacket with a panel right above her tits, it's scrolling the message "bienvenue." I wasn't aware that women needed any technological assistance to get men to stare at their chests. If the women in this scenario truly wanted to make the men feel really welcome, they'd ditch the high collar and show some cleavage.
    But what went way beyond stupid was the video of the girl walking down the street, she sees a sk8r b0i, she wants to hit on him, so she grabs her cel phone and types a message "cafe" to the panel on her purse. Once again, a little cleavage would do a much better job of attracting a man. The purse's display panel was pointed backwards, hanging back off the woman's ass, so I guess if you wanted to attract people stalking you from behind, that would be the perfect way.

  8. Re:Medical uses by node+3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you suffer a grand mal for example, it could give life saving instructions to people around on how to assist you in such a scenario.

    A: That guy's freaking out, I think it's a seizure or something... Hey, look at this display on his chest.

    B: Cool. Check it out, it can play Tetris.

    A: Don't you think we should help him?

    B: Two-player Tetris.

    A: Oh yeah?

  9. New Microsoft T-shirt available by whimdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only in blue