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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. Videos by Hufo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Two videos are available here. The page is in french but you can easily find the videos.

    1. Re:Videos by Knx · · Score: 2, Informative

      The page is in french but you can easily find the videos.

      FWIW, here is a (bad) translation of the 4th and 5th paragraph below the video links. Some technical aspects are detailed.

      The screen is connected to a mobile phone through a Bluetooth link which allows to send pictures or animations via MMS to another user provided with the same equipment. Thanks to an embedded software, the mobile phone is used as a remote control to enable the screen functionalities: brightness adjustment, choice of displayed patterns, text input, donwloading of animations from Internet ... An improved picture editor has also been developed to allow professionals to submit their own animations, which will be put online and made downloadable via Internet, using the mobile phone.

      It's also possible to use the screen in "autonomous" mode, using its built-in sensors (rendering of visual sequences, specifical animations according to physical activity, sound environment...).

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    2. Re:Videos by sploo22 · · Score: 2, Informative

      $ mmsclient mms://wmt-vod.video.francetelecom.com/www2.francet elecom.com/ftrd_2004/image_portee-hd.wmv
      $ mplayer image_portee-hd.wmv

      Now stop complaining.

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  2. More Pictures by Hufo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here you can see other photos, including the electronic board.

  3. Practicallity? Battery use? by Zone-MR · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks kewl in the R&D stage, but a 16x16 pixel LED display has obvious technical problems.

    Lets take the image in the photograph. It has about 3/4 of the 256 pixels illuminated. Thats 192 LEDs. Assuming the image is remain visible outside, in sunlight, rather than in a dark room, you would need bright LEDs, each consuming an average current of at least 2mA.

    So that's 384mA current consumption. To get through a 12 hour day (hardly impressibe battery life), you would need a battery with a 12*0.384 = 4.6Ah capacity. Your average huge+chunky laptop battery won't provide more than 2.5AH.

    The shirt is a great idea, but if I need to carry around a backpack with a car battery, or plug myself in to recharge every hour or two, I say no-thanks.

  4. Re:Shirt I saw the other day... by Cus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quite common in the clubs. Cyberdog do a few, including heart beats and EQs.