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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. Medical uses by furball · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could be very handy for medical purposes. In normal uses, you can do whatever you want. But sensors inside the wearable can pick up that you're having a heart attack for example and provide the appropriate display on the wearable, eg. "I'm having a heart attack, call for help" etc.

    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.

    1. Re:Medical uses by nkh · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "I'm having a heart attack, look at me, make fun of me, and stare at me for a few minutes before you realize this is not Real TV but real life..."
      I'm afraid this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, but people don't help each other anymore these days. I understand it's an off-topic rant about society, but I doubt this kind of display would help anyone, especially if you look at what happen to handicapped people...

    2. Re:Medical uses by velo_mike · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I'm afraid this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, but people don't help each other anymore these days

      How about this, when people stop suing each other for chickenshit things, I'll start helping. If it's truly life or death, I'll get involved: Choking, CPR, major life-threatening bleeding and I'm there until the medics arrive. Anything otherwise and I'll be more than happy to call 911 for you but that's where my involvement ends.

      It makes me sad to look at the world this way, but I'm also unwilling to put myself at risk unless the outcome is certain death.

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      At the bottom of the endless pile of paper work which characterizes all regulation lies a gun.
      Alan Greenspan

  2. Fashion to Finance by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If these were available widley, I have no doubt that people would link them up to mp3 player and walkmen so an avatar would bop to the music for all to see as they walked around, or the name of the song floated across.

    But how long before we see people walking around with T-Shirts displaying scrolling Benneton or Nike logos, animated unpaid advertisements, possibly updated wia the same AP that loads new avatars displaed on the side. We already have logos on our cloths anyway? maybe some would be proud to a 30 second commerical arounf with them

    Sooner or later, your shirts will display softcore porn ads as you eat breakfast and wait for the bus. Along with bilboards, TV, radio, signposts and probobly the pavement as well!

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    May the Maths Be with you!
  3. Re:Will be really interesting ... by Zone-MR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ummm, why the hell would you expect the clothes to have camaras, yet alone support the execution of custom software?

    Is this a knee-jerk reaction to find an excuse to put on your tin-foil hat? It's nothing more than a semi-intelligent display which will let you upload an animated GIF. And even if they did have cameras (I still have no clue where that came from), they will be less flexible than your average mobiile-phone or digital camera. AFAIK my digital camera is NOT spying on me and my family because I didn't run adaware on it (!)