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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."
It's a freaking PDA screen showing through a hole cut in the bag. The Media lab keeps getting lamer and lamer.
I thought MIT was a leading technology school. How come we keep seeing this lame crap coming from them? OMG, I twisted some cat5e into a pony and had a fashion show. Or, I cut a hole in a bag so my PDA would show through. Aren't these best and brightest supposed to be working on cool things like figuring out how to mass manufacture a fabric with OLEDs? Stop posting this crap.
Going AC here since I know folks with MIT degrees.
Urbanhermes defines a communicative fashion framework that would ultimately consist
I have this idea of a robotic housemaid that can also tune my car and cure cancer. Can I get a post on slashdot?
It's pathetic how anything that MIT can conjecture automatically makes it news.
A teddy bear that's also a 100mbit switch? OMFG what innovation!
I know some of the older school media lab guys and even they are getting tired of the "news" they see in Tech Briefs etc.
Please, give it a rest and treat the rest of us like we're not damned fanboys of anything MIT does. It's a good school that does some great science but it's not some flaming oracle.
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Actually this has little use period. This isn't some cool e-ink for printing on fabric. This is a PDA with it's screen superglued to a transparent window in a backpack. Not flexible, cannot maintain state without power, bloody expensive and impractical for large uses. It'd be no more useful for adaptive camoflage than walking around with a plasma TV haning from your neck would be.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
No, you will NOT be able to switch from a Yankees Jersey to a Mets Jersey in the flip of a switch. That would violate intellectual property rules.
But you'll be able to do things ALMOST as cool. For a low payment of $2.50 per use, your fabric will connect to a AT&T mobile fabric pattern access point, from which you will be able to download AWESOME patterns which include all your favourite TV stars, American Idols, and Pop Starlets. "Locked" fabric will be rented to you at discounted prices in exchange for 2 year contracts costing roughly $200. Fabrics will be locked to only allow patterns from the manufacturer you bought it from. You will not be able to upload patterns from your computer to your fabric. You will not be able to share patterns with your neighbor.
Enjoy your high-tech clothing of the future.
-Laxitive