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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."
Imagine a viral goatse fashion hack
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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
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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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.
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
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.
not to mention easier to use large crowds of people as giant LCD screens.
think of the stadium applications!
Asking people to think is like asking them to buy you a new car
> 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.