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MIT Fashion Show Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-wrong-with-showing-a-little-ROM dept.

djperception writes "'Seamless: Computational Couture,' a runway fashion event curated by MIT Media Lab graduate students, presented its second annual collection of technologically experimental clothing at the Boston Museum of Science on Feb. 1. Seamless is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. Each project [re]interprets the conceptual goal of a seamless relationship between technology and fashion. A full webcast of the event is now available."

67 comments

  1. Fun With Fashion by mfh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Meet last year's winner of the tech fashion contest. Layered Tech is going to explode with these high rez images of the clothing to be used at the MIT event, although I am pretty sure that MIT can handle the bandwidth used by the streaming video. (More Tron Guy Pix HA! HA!)

    What the hell is this guy doing? Don't answer that . I'm going to get this one for those days when I want to look like Snuffaluffagus. Oh and whenever I update my blog, I'm going to wear this blogger hoodie. It's a blogger hoodie because...

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    1. Re:Fun With Fashion by ThatFunkyMunki · · Score: 1

      Worst first post Ever.

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    2. Re:Fun With Fashion by javaxman · · Score: 1
      (More Tron Guy Pix HA! HA!),

      TRON guy has a lot of guts, I gotta give him that. A few too many, really. I don't think I'd do that... and I'm in way better shape than TRON guy. I'd have to really, really get in shape first, or just make the outfit and put it on someone who *is* in shape.

      I presume you're joking about him being last year's winner, right? Please say you are...

    3. Re:Fun With Fashion by prator · · Score: 1

      This is John Fishman from Phish. He used to wear a dress like that at most of their shows. He had this person make a sonic dress version for him.

      Hope that cleared it all up.

      -prator

  2. Is it me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    or did it just get significantly gayer in here?

    1. Re:Is it me... by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Ooooooh I'mmmmm...
      an MIT graduate,
      Gay as gay can be!
      I like to put on clothing,
      That looks like Christmas trees!

      No one doubts my fashion sense,
      Though they might think I'm pretty dense,
      But it's okay, the light bulb's on,
      My technologically advanced dressing gown!

      Now I realize that some of you,
      Might think this rather queer.
      But if you really think it through,
      Well, alright, it's still pretty queer!

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    2. Re:Is it me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. I've noticed it as well, ever since you walked in.

    3. Re:Is it me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      oh diss, but not until your mom walked in!!!11!one!!1!!shift!!!1

      lol rotfl lmfao lmaofow lwidnf slavdsjkn djn!i2?1

  3. Direct video link by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Direct linkage

    rtsp://helix.media.mit.edu/insite/events/misc-2006 /seamless-2006-02-01.rm

    unfortunately, it downloads at the same speed it streams( 30KBps)

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  4. Holy Crap ... by ta+ma+de · · Score: 0, Troll

    they have managed to make fashion boring as fuck.

    1. Re:Holy Crap ... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 1

      Hand in your geek badge right now. You're not worthy.

      They just made the stuff more interesting!!

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    2. Re:Holy Crap ... by BumpyCarrot · · Score: 1

      What was it before?

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    3. Re:Holy Crap ... by AEton · · Score: 1

      Wait until you see the MIT fashion blog :/

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    4. Re:Holy Crap ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You must be doing it wrong.

  5. Exhausted by ettlz · · Score: 1

    I had to make a double-take on Exhausted.

    For a minute there I didn't know what I was seeing. Oddly... um... phallic. It's not the sort of thing one could wear with a straight face. In fact, I don't think what one does with it constitutes "wearing".

    1. Re:Exhausted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      its even better that theres a pic of two women wearing it while wrestling. looks exactly like they're fucking with a strapon.

  6. The concetual goal is. . . by kfg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    . . . a seamless relationship between technology and fashion.

    In other words, you shouldn't be able to notice it.

    KFG

    1. Re:The concetual goal is. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You can't. The fashion is not at all visible anywhere.

    2. Re:The concetual goal is. . . by kfg · · Score: 1

      The fashion is not at all visible anywhere.

      Then how do you know it's there?

      KFG

  7. Just what you'd expect from MIT Media Lab by Locke2005 · · Score: 1, Interesting
    curated by MIT Media Lab graduate students Maybe these grad students need to stop desparately trying to justify their grant money and get a job in the real world, where, you know, real people have to actually want to buy the stuff you design or you're out of a job...

    Engineers (myself included) are notoriously bad at figuring out what the average person would regard as "cool" and want to buy. (With a few exceptions, such as the iPod and RAZR phone.)

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    1. Re:Just what you'd expect from MIT Media Lab by BumpyCarrot · · Score: 1

      where, you know, real people have to actually want to buy the stuff you design or you're out of a job...

      Real people buy stuff like this? Cause it seems that's what happens to fashion designers get jobs.

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    2. Re:Just what you'd expect from MIT Media Lab by jbloggs · · Score: 2, Informative

      Obviously you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. First of all, at the media lab, you're funded so you don't need to worry about grant money. Second of all, this isn't the real world. That is what is good about this. Seamless is put on to showcase the works of designers and other people (mostly not MIT people) who are interested in fashion and technology. It is mainly a CONCEPTUAL event meant for inspiring others into the different possible domains of interaction with fashion and technology. None of these items were meant to be bought off the runway. The designers were not engineers...but artists....

  8. I for one... by garrett714 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...am waiting for TFT embedded clothes that could change the appearence and mood of your clothes on the fly. Heh, it would be awesome, but where would the batteries go?

    1. Re:I for one... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 1

      You are the battery. Didn't you watch the Matrix?!

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    2. Re:I for one... by garrett714 · · Score: 0

      You are the battery. Didn't you watch the Matrix?!

      Ahah, but then we would have to be submerged in tanks full of some weird liquid with tons of electrodes connected to our spine and arms and stuff and I think the electronic clothes would short out. But yeah, the Matrix rocks.

    3. Re:I for one... by Poeir · · Score: 1

      Why bother with clothes? We've almost got eInk, which takes a lower current to change state than would cause any injury (though it would be perceptible). Instead of having white and black sides, have fleshtone and not fleshtone, and inject it into the skin.

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    4. Re:I for one... by yuriismaster · · Score: 1

      Except your 'clothes' would be rather shapely... Think Trinity in Matrix Reloaded or Kate Beckinsale in Underworld Evolution, except much tighter.

      Might be good for camouflage? :-\

    5. Re:I for one... by corblix · · Score: 1
      Why bother with clothes? We've almost got eInk, ....

      Two reasons: Winter, and that "almost" cleverly hidden in your message.

    6. Re:I for one... by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 1

      Heh, it would be awesome, but where would the batteries go?

      Take a guess.

    7. Re:I for one... by Poeir · · Score: 1

      I meant for a display, not as a clothes replacement. Envision a PDA that you can not lose and have at all times, and we'll be on the same page.

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    8. Re:I for one... by Darth_Burrito · · Score: 1

      Clothes that change appearance with your mood? I feel so naked. Oops!

  9. photo's by mtenhagen · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those of you interested some photo's at http://www.klaproos.net/seamless

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    1. Re:photo's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh, it looks like Japanese are really into this kind of thing. 50% of people in those pics look Japanese.

    2. Re:photo's by boingo82 · · Score: 1

      Boy, nothing as comfortable as a plastic bustier. Those models look even more miserable than most.

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    3. Re:photo's by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Congratulations, sir, you've invented:

      Classical Greek clothing.

      Oh, yeah, a bit of Egyptian and the sarong as well.

      I don't have a stich on at the moment. I'm dressed from neck to ankle, but I don't have a stictch on. Not even a sewn hem. Just pieces of cloth right off the loom. This guy calls this A-poc. The Greeks called it a Chiton, which means, "A piece of cloth worn like this" or a Chlamys, which means "A piece of cloth worn like this."

      They're both the same simple rectangle of cloth. A chinton is just that piece of cloth pinned like a poncho and the chlamys is that piece of cloth pinned like an off the shoulder shawl. The Greeks did not believe in even cutting a slit in fabric to stick your head through. That would damage the cloth and cloth was revered.

      I'm wearing a chlamys and shenti, which is just Egyptian for sarong, which means. . .?

      Now let's not always see the same hands. That's right, "A piece of cloth."

      Clothes, of course, means "Some pieces of cloth."

      If you're interested in the idea of sewing free clothing go here:

      http://www.idcw.org.uk/

      In the meantime I think I'm off to invent fire and give it a snappy new acronym.

      KFG

    4. Re:photo's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now that's some strange "double dildo" lesbian action right there...

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  11. Re:Fashion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mummy, I found the goatse man!

  12. Issey Miyake's A-POC line by lysergic.acid · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a little off topic, but Wired has an interesting article on truly seamless fashion created using newly developed manufacturing techniques.

  13. Is there anything 'computational' in the show? by javaxman · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry. I want to listen to the audio descriptions of what the tiny image is supposed to be about, but there's an overbearing, painful-to-listen to abomination of electronica drowning out the announcer.

    And here I thought I liked electronic music. I guess I like some electronic music... still, occasionally it's not as bad as the 'fashions'!

    The first fashion in the show is just stupid... although I guess that's predictable.

    The second thing could be um, interesting, but is really just good for a joke. I guess a lot of "fashion" is like that, though, huh?

    uh. Nothing "computational" about any of this, yet, though. The third outfit is the only reasonable one yet... and it's just some ( not many ) movement-controlled LEDs on the front of an outfit.

    And no, I don't care to know what you're listening on your iPod, thanks.

    Good god, this is awful. Sorry. It's even worse than a normal fashion show. I wouldn't have predicted that.

    I can't really stand to watch the whole thing, I'm afraid, even if the server wasn't starting to show some slashdot effect. If anyone does make it through and sees anything worthwhile, could you let us know what it is and about where to find it ? Thanks... I just can't do it... thanks to the user who posted the link of pictures. That's a much more positive group of images... and easier on the ears.

    Still, is it really "computational" to stick some speakers in something and hook your iPod to it? Why do I expect better than this ?

    1. Re:Is there anything 'computational' in the show? by rts008 · · Score: 1

      You are truly braver than I. All I see is a "click here to download plugin" and a BIG empty page, so obviously this not too important of a website/link.

      But the other link (http://seamless.sigtronica.org/) seems to display....I think?....WTF?...maybe I don't want to know what the "2nd ed." is?!?!?

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    2. Re:Is there anything 'computational' in the show? by javaxman · · Score: 1
      maybe I don't want to know what the "2nd ed." is?!?!?

      Well, it was maybe best as a joke, but uh... imagine the other end of that hose is connected to another vest of the same design. Then imagine two relatively cute girls working the "bellows" of the tube by backing away from one another and then pressing up against each other, repeatedly. Like I said... a cute, maybe slightly crude joke, at best, especially since the noise it made left a lot to be desired- maybe give it an amplified accordian-like keyboard or something ?

      Then again, other than one or two of the other models being a little cute, that was in fact perhaps a highlight of the show, sadly enough. It's hard to be sure, but it was probably the only intentional laugh.

      Anyway, you didn't miss out, that was my point...

  14. Hmmm... An odd coicidence by technoextreme · · Score: 1
    Why bother with clothes? We've almost got eInk, which takes a lower current to change state than would cause any injury (though it would be perceptible). Instead of having white and black sides, have fleshtone and not fleshtone, and inject it into the skin.

    Im a bit creeped out. I was reading a story in Asimov's that had a similar technology that you are describing. What's even weirder is that the company I work at is eInk. Also, I personally can attest to the fact that it does not hurt at all with the voltage levels being used.
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  15. New name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tasteless: Computational Culture

  16. Mirrors by winkydink · · Score: 4, Informative

    Article = http://www.networkmirror.com/2h4OwAe8z25zqr2F/seam less.sigtronica.org/index.html
    Video = http://www.networkmirror.com/kroJ3CDTfxzs7ZqW/www. media.mit.edu/events/movies/video.php%3Fid%3Dseaml ess-2006-02-01.html

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  17. Unless, of course. . . by kfg · · Score: 1

    I just misinterpreted a rather funny cheap shot until I was already clicking the submit button.

    I hate when that happens.

    KFG

  18. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is MIT the right place for this? Let's be honest, it's a fashion black hole; I never saw many white guy afros and 70s-style polo shirts as I did when I visited there.

  19. Hmmm... /.ed by TheSeer2 · · Score: 1

    All that technology must have blown up their servers :)

  20. This makes sense by geordieboy · · Score: 1

    Actually I see this as a very natural pairing, the Media Lab with the Fashion industry. They both typify obsession with surface over substance, and a disregard for common sense.

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    1. Re:This makes sense by John+Nowak · · Score: 1

      And what, may I ask, is wrong with the media lab? They don't produce any useful products? So what? They're artists first, not engineers. To be honest, the media lab is exactly where I'd like to head once I get my BFA.

    2. Re:This makes sense by jbloggs · · Score: 1

      This fashion show is exactly the opposite of what you say. In fact, its purely conceptual about directions and designs for the future where technology is "seamlessly" integrated with fasion and appareal. So in fact, its super commoon sense to think in this direction because its where everyday people meet technology. But typical slashdot trolls, you wish you were cool enough to do something like this so you knock it instead since you don't understand....

  21. And that was the... by mfh · · Score: 1

    ... worst Score: -1 Troll, today.

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  22. Off with their HUDS by technoextreme · · Score: 1

    Heheheh.. Found this in the similar articles category. I don't know why but it's funny.

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  23. Cache by why-lurk · · Score: 1
    Content is available on Coral Cache:

    http://seamless.sigtronica.org.nyud.net:8090/

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  24. I guess this is what they mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    by intelligent design.

  25. Re:Fashion? by myotheralt · · Score: 1

    that is SO going in my quite book

  26. What is the point of this post? by John+Nowak · · Score: 1

    Honestly? They're grad students at MIT. They did some wearable computing business. Why are you complaining?

  27. Real Media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Real Media? No thanks.

  28. Ahhhhhhhhhh, bugger by kfg · · Score: 1

    The above post was supposed to be attached to the post a couple down. I either need more coffee or more sleep.

    KFG

  29. This is kind of funny for me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is kind of funny for me because I actually was the first kiss of one of the contestants when I was 16 (http://seamless.sigtronica.org/media/graphics/dia na_hoodie_tn.jpg). Recently I talked to her after seeing her on the Bravo show Project Runway and she said I was the inspiration of her fashion career. Apparently she used to draw pictures of me in funny clothes and dresses (I believe the persona was Sailor Stephen - like Sailor Moon) in physics class my junior year of highschool and that made her want pursue clothing creatively!

    Ahh, funny how life turns out...

  30. Been reading "Top Ten"? by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 1

    "Girl One", anybody?

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  31. Is it just me... by britneys+9th+husband · · Score: 2, Funny

    or does having an MIT fashion show make about as much sense as having Blonde Supermodels Week on Jeopardy?

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  32. Re:Fashion? by DarkestTiger · · Score: 1

    Full Frontal Nerdity? Ok. http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/ffn/ffn. htm

  33. I've been critical of the 3rd world crank computer by skeptictank · · Score: 1

    but after looking at this. I recommend that MML put all their effort into that project.