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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. is this the "within 5 years" category from ars? by dan501 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they're right - if anybody could properly exploit this technology, it would be burning man people. much better than the high-tech iteration of the guy who stands on the street corner waving a big arrow pointing toward the pizza joint or the apartments for rent.

    if they sell them as individual units that you can affix to fabric, I'd buy a bunch and make a shirt covered with them. with cameras in every haphazard direction.

    two things I would not do is use it to display pacman. nor would I make my outfit a star trek tng get up.

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  2. Re:Will be really interesting ... by aj50 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This could take the hatred of popups, adware and spyware to a whole new level, especially if clothes have cameras.

    "I know who you are, I know where you live, I know your family, I know your girlfriend and where she works and all because you were dumb enough to download dodgey free software without using ad-aware regularly."

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  3. Political use by CdBee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Groups of demonstrators could use them en-masse to project messages onto prominent political persons or buildings.

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  4. Re:Medical uses by FryGuy1013 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not "Help I'm having a heart attack.. wait let me send these electric wires into your heart and send some current to restart it." Seems better to me :)

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  5. Other Research by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    More fun R&d

  6. Invisibility Cloak? by oldwarez · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could this be the basis for a viable invisibility cloak? You have a camera on the back and a camera on the front that hooks straight up to the shirt therefore making you appear trasnlucent. Would it be useful? Probably not. Would it be kickass? Yes. It does seem like a lot better of a method than the Japanese camera trick used to appear invisible. codeus.sexybsd.org

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