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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."
How long until someone got a mod to have naked fashion?
Please stop entering code 2,2,7,6,6,4
Imagine a viral goatse fashion hack
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
A virus makes people appear naked? Nude patch for reality?
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It's a freaking PDA screen showing through a hole cut in the bag. The Media lab keeps getting lamer and lamer.
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.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
...this'll make it a lot easier for people to sell themselves as add space.
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.
According to the laws of war if you are fighting out of uniform and you are captured you are considered a spy and not a soldier and do not get pow status. They have status very similar to unlawfull combatants. This is a reason lot of commando raids are done by people wearing uniform even though the raid would be easier to do if you could just be dressed as the enemy. So my question is why not use this kind of material to create a uniform which matches the enemy's uniform and if you think you are about to get captured flick a switch and switch to full uniform. Voila you are no longer an unlawful combatant and rather a POW
**Life is too short to be serious**
Does this hint at the possibility of 24bit truecolour mexican waves?
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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?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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
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.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
An I'm with stupid T-shirt that always points to the specific stupid you mean.
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!!!
fashion prints can be shared virally via wireless communication.
How long before a "kick me" virus gets loose?
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
I should probably submit a shameless plug for some of the related work that our collaborators in Colorado are working on:
An LED tank top playing Conway's Game of Life and an extensive guide on do-it-yourself sewing circuits. Very nerdy, and very cool. The idea here is that you can have computationally enhanced stuff available for people doing craftwork. They have a lot more awesome stuff, but you'll have to click around for it.
I don't think so. Ever see some of the syntax highlighting schemes some Vim users have come up with?
Stephen
but the inventors are not thinking this through... Have you seen what some people wear with 'regular' materials? Anyone ever want to kill the person that thought "hmmm, spandex will look good in XXXXlarge canary yellow" ???
Have any of you seen what gets worn at high schools? (no, I'm not a pervert) but there are groups of people that would take self expression to an entirely unexpected new level if they could change it before getting caught...
Have you ever seen the gay pride parades? Mardi Gras? Imagine that in the mall or your local TGIF's on occassion. If clothes could make it look like the wearer was naked, but not be, more people than you think, and certainly people you wouldn't want to, will think its fun to do so.
Not that I think such innovations should be held back, but there are some serious consequences to our laws and society with the introduction of such things... and trust me, the judiciary is NOT ready to deal with it, whether it is innovation or change, they are not prepared to deal equitably with either.
Just what do law makers do with someone that creates a virus that makes little girls clothes go transparent? There are some serious things to think about with technology, and UNFORTUNATELY, our law makers have NO CLUE what to do with it other than react like they were born with the patriot act in their mouths (or pick your preferred orrifice).
Yes, I'm paranoid... at least when it comes to anything that requires law makers and politicians to have common sense and good humor.
sigh...
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What does it say about you when you wear a t-shirt with a Nike swoosh on it?
I'd rather see people walking around, freely exchanging memes on their shirts instead, something more complex than a band name or an athletic wear logo. Ideas, slogans more profound than "just do it". That would be a nifty way to exploit new technology to facilitate human communication in ways that haven't been as widely experimented with until now.
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
> researchers are developing fashion accessories on which patterns and designs can change according to the wearer's whim
It has already been developed, by Philips Research in the Netherlands, with the possibility to modify the patterns on your textiles e.g. by bluetooth or GSM.
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.