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Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing
Paul Cobbaut writes "From Physorg: Philips Research intends to impress the visitors at this year's IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic advertisements, graphics and constantly changing color surfaces. Here is the Philips Press Release." Obviously, all Devo videos will need to be reshot using this valuabe new technology advance.
The possibilities for the PRON industry abound.
Now they can show it all before they take it all off.
Sweet! Now I can build the perfect Tron suit that I always dreamed of! Hopefully, no one will think I'm weird when I wear it to work...
Can we get this clothing to accept user input? I've always wanted to play pacman on my chest. 2 player battleship anyone, I play my front, you play my back?
Come to Australia so we can strip search you and rob you of your internets, pr0n, rights and freedoms.
But it can be a very cool tech.
Imagine these clothes are sold with a wireless interface in the future, which IMHO is a reasonable idea, geeks in school could learn to hack them and write "kick me" on the back of the violent kids while staying at safe distance.
Why, I thought that was nyl-on impossible!
..Sorry.
That guy with a glowing @ on his back looks so hip, like he's totally part of the Internet Revolution!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I can't wait for this - google can now give it away as Adword supprted clothing.
I think I'm going to patent "Pay per Prod" quickly.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
I predict bed-sheets with built-in mood-lighting.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
You're too late
Or a joke about the differences between 'to', 'two', and 'too'.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
As a cardriver, I will WANT to hit you, if you are wearing a bright flashing jacket. Blinking LED's are annoying enough. It's not a safety issue. If blinking stuff is safer, LED-lamps is enough. Bicycles are not supposed to blink, you are not an ambulance.
Like there is not already too much light pollution in the world. And advertisment .. and lightboards .. and .. and ...
With that jacket you can constantly inform us about that opinion of yours without needing to open your mouth.
As soon as the resolution increases you'll even be able to show example chapters of your book on you clothes and have a little mascot playing the smallest violin in the world to it using the build-in speakers.
Isn't that great?
Oh god. NOOOOOO! I can't stand it... I don't want to see FLASHING! AD! BANNERS! on people!! I got away from them on the internet (firefox + adblock) but there is no way to protect yourself from throngs of joggers wearing DISCOUNT ELECTRONICS and FREE ONLINE GAMBLING etc.... I know, I know, but it's still a terrible idea. Advertising will always want to be flashy and eye-catching in some way. Hopefully people will have enough sense to stay away from the whole idea... but I wonder... by providing free clothing to the homeless, Corpoation X gets free ad space in return! Actually, that's kind of sad, now that I think of it.
More importantly, you mean people don't wear clothing unless they have some sort of price incentive? Where do you live? Thousands of slashdot geeks have to know!
You live and learn. At least, you live.
This could potentially bring an end to the expression "Stick it where the sun don't shine", if my shorts can illiluminate such dark corners of the universe.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
On how long it will take for someone to dress-up in a glowing green outfit and pretend to be an alien?
I'd say about 5 minutes.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Its going to be great to see a virus spreading though your local GAP.
The thing that concerns me most about this would be the potential application in reviving disco. Then comes roller disco and then Kryogenics is used to bring back the decesed members of the Gibb family. AND IT ALL STARTS with the sequins for the digital age.
Dunno about that. Every time I see a female walking about with "These are Real" on her shirt, I always look twice.
This will revolutionize the "I'm with stupid" t-shirt industry - now the arrow can always point in the right direction
Shouldn't these people have been working on the cure for the common cold? Or legos that are don't get stuck together as badly, or something else?
"The binocular guy nods, reaches up with one hand and presses a lapel switch. The next time he turns around, a word is written across his back in neon green electropigment: MAFIA. The older guy turns away; his windbreaker says the same thing. Hiro turns around in the middle of the gangplank. There are twenty crew members in plain sight all around him. Suddenly, their black windbreakers all say, MAFIA. Suddenly, they are all armed."
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
Better still,
...look it up....
You can wire your jacket to your personal GPS and have the jacket change gang colors depending on the neighborhood you just entered. Imagine a gothic-text MS-13 sprawled across you back......
-- Posted from my parent's basement
so, i can look forward to a future in which a typical walk through town will involve punching dozens of people in the face as hard as i can?
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