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MIT Media Lab Fashions

robyn217 writes "At MIT's Media Lab, researchers are developing fashion accessories on which patterns and designs can change according to the wearer's whim, and fashion prints can be shared virally via wireless communication. This technology will be a real boon for fickle New York City baseball fans at the Subway Series in the future (they can simply flip a switch to change from a Mets to a Yankees jersey."

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  1. Mods by foundme · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long until someone got a mod to have naked fashion?

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  2. Bad idea? by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny
    fashion prints can be shared virally via wireless communication.
    Shared virally?

    Imagine a viral goatse fashion hack

    ::shudders::

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  3. The downside... by ktakki · · Score: 5, Funny

    Journal Entry - 8 August 2017

    Got to work at 8:30. Pradesh, my cubicle-mate arrives ten minutes later, muttering Hindi obscenities. He's wearing plaid pants in a pattern so garish that it would make a Scotsman commit suicide.

    "Yo, Prad. What's up with the slacks? You rent Braveheart IV last night?"

    "Good gracious, no," he repies. "Someone hacked my pants on the No. 6 train."

    We spent most of the morning doing a system restore on his trousers. Got them rolled back to pinstripes just before lunch.

    k.

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  4. That'd be grounds for prosecution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That'd likely be grounds for prosecution in certain countries, namely the United States. It's a well known fact that boobies are a prime cause of terrorism. You don't support terrorism, do you?

    1. Re:That'd be grounds for prosecution. by slack-fu · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fashion leads to terrorism AND pedofilia, you don't support those right? Of course not, please put on your blue overalls and let the Ministry of Truth search your Fed-Ex packages for Pedo-Terror DVDs.

  5. Viral Fashion i18n pack by jd · · Score: 2, Funny
    For those wandering internationally, here are the following viral fashions currently in vogue:


    • England: Not sure, but it was either designed by HRH The Prince of Wales or won an award from him for innovation
    • The Channel Islands: A "Stone De Croze" outfit (it's important to be original)
    • Australia: A cross between "Crocodile Dundee" and Rolf Harris
    • Germany: Doesn't matter - the Chaos Computer Club will upload Blinkenlights and use the entire street for a gigantic game of Pacman
    • Denmark: Is there such a thing as a viking mermaid?
    • America: Masks of any kind will automatically transform into the face of one of the FBI's ten most wanted, at random, and the jacket will carry an amazing image of an AK-47 that you'd swear was real, with a net impact on Halloween candy sales
    • Absolutely any abandoned rock quarry: Random assorted costumes from BBC science fiction series

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  6. Hidden Implementation by slashbob22 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Much like Hot Coffee and the Oblivion Skins the "Naked Fashion" is already implemented underneath. Commenting out the "fabric" will result in an change in rating.

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  7. You could make... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    An I'm with stupid T-shirt that always points to the specific stupid you mean.

  8. This is really great. by Who235 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What an exciting and entirely appropriate use of technology.

    Frankly I was wondering why this hadn't been done yet.

    This kind of radical thinking is sure to keep MIT right at the top for years to come.

    Boy am I glad we crawled out of the ocean, fought off fucking cave bears and developed huge brains because this is truly the culmination of all our hopes as a species.

    Look on and be humbled by our own magnificence, people - this is our finest hour:

    We can wirelessly change clothes!!!

  9. viral fashion? by Jim3535 · · Score: 3, Funny

    fashion prints can be shared virally via wireless communication.

    How long before a "kick me" virus gets loose?

  10. Good idea for geeks? by bulletman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think so. Ever see some of the syntax highlighting schemes some Vim users have come up with?

    Stephen

  11. Ugh... by MagicDude · · Score: 1, Funny

    This technology will be a real boon for fickle New York City baseball fans at the Subway Series in the future (they can simply flip a switch to change from a Mets to a Yankees jersey.

    Anyone who needs a jersey to switch from Yankees to the Mets doesn't deserve either.

  12. oh great: by atarione · · Score: 1, Funny

    ~~~ For instance, a T-shirt could be solid blue one day and striped the next, she said. ~~~

    all i need is the smelly nerds at work wearing the same tshirt (albiet with different colors/patterns) all week...

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  13. Re:What?? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based on how Americans support sports teams, I'd imagine they'd flip the switch depending on who was winning at the time.

    Who said anything about America? He was talking about New York.

  14. MIT = by jamesl · · Score: 1, Funny

    MIT = More Irrelevant Technology.