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How Animatronic Clothes Work
bethr writes "TechnologyReview.com has an article about the inner-workings of the animatronic clothes featured at a recent Paris runway show. The dresses use computerized motors and monofilament wires to radically transform from one style to another. From the article: 'Zippers closed, cloth gathered, and hemlines rose — all without human assistance.' You can see the finished product in the second half of a video of the show."
I'd hate to see what the new definition of "wardrobe malfunction" will be now!
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"Zippers un-zipped, cloth fell off, and hemlines fell"
Hopefully, they can figure out how to put some emotion on those faces!
A perfect way to make it more painful if/when you get your balls or other soft tissues caught in the zipper...
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So basically, women in the future will walk around naked with lampshades on their heads? This seems like integrating technology in clothing just for shock value ... I can't imagine most women will want to wear giant hats just so they automatically change/rearrange their clothes.
However, I think there will certainly be some really cool tech clothing in the future. For example, Philips has displayed really cool animated LED t-shirts (if you haven't seen the video, check it out here), that if they could be made washable would probably spread like wildfire through our schools. Integrated music, computers, and even temperature control are possible/probably in the near future.
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No more worrying about my fly being open.
A representative at Sony was quick to reassure the designer than on one's ass would be burnt on this one.
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Highly impractical, and yet the inevitable evoloution of it is definately something to think about.
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YouTube link for those wanting to skip straight to the nudity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFl0rNNQrY
In case you are wondering: Yes, the models are skinny, but not that skinny. The video was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio but encoded in 4:3. Everything looks squashed.
Think of the possibilities.
You could have a shirt or pant made of micro-filament optical cord giving you the ability to change the color of your shirt on the fly. Hell shoes are already 'helping' you jump higher it seems pretty straightforward that clothing that can assist you in other ways would be next.
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Dear God, what the hell has happened?!
Why do people put stock in stuff like runway shows? All it is is a bunch of uber-skinny models wearing things so ugly and absurd. Are runway shows intended to show off junk that makes people look like drowned cats and just be so abstract that there is nothing more being shown than what could pass as a random amalgamation of crap?
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Where was Marty McFly and his year 2015 jacket?
So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!
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This could have some interesting practical joke potential. Gift somebody some clothes, keep a remote control for yourself...
So, now they have another way to make absolutely ridiculous looking outfits that would never have any practical purpose outside the runway. Or would it actually be considered useful for your dress to fan out, showing off whatever you might have underneath, while it transforms into a nearly identical version of itself.
I suppose this could be useful for criminals trying to evade the police. Then again, how many 5 ft 11 in 80lb people would there be skulking around the bank.
Honestly, fashion shows should really be renamed into wearable art shows, because that's what they are. Well, okay, some of them could be renamed "Designer X wanted to see Model Y's boobs so he 'designed' a dress lacking any substance above the waist" shows.
That would be insanely cool, but I don't think I'd want to wear my pants inside-out; even if it will be the in thing.
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I hope that they aren't using Dell batteries!
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
you don't wear clothes, clothes wear you...
Before the middle of the video, some chick walked out in baloons. The baloons were clear, and you could see her tits and all you can talk about is the whirring motors? HER FSCKING TITS WERE SHOWING. Jimminy Crickets. Sometimes you folks amaze me.
There have been several sightings of Slashdotters' clothes -- most prevalently shorts and pants, though there has been rumor of an isolated incident involving socks -- exhibiting a similar "transformative" characteristic upon viewing of this video.
I grew up in Japan in the early 80s and even though I didnt know Japanese, I would still watch Japanese cartoons. The premise of this cartoon was kinda crazy but was pretty entertaining even though I didnt understand most of the time....wtf was going on.
There was this one particular cartoon where a boy was trying to catch a green frog, the boy leaped on top of this frog and somehow the frog got stuck to his white shirt. For some reason this frog was permanently attached to his shirt? Turns out this frog-shirt was very intelligent and bizarrely enough could speak...over time they became buddies. Of course being good friends the boy would wear his frog-shirt everywhere he went.
Some of their adventures envoled normal boyhood adversity like dealing with the bully at school or trying to convince the teachers that the frog-shirt is not helping him cheat on exams and so on.
In one funny episode...because of jealousy the boy and the frog-shirt get into a major aurgument over a girl they have a crush on. They get into a physical brawl to the point where the boy cast off the frog-shirt and they go their separate ways. The boy and the frog-shirt start to compete in trying to win the affections of this girl. One would give the girl flowers, so the other would try to out do him by getting her a box of chocolates or jewelry. This gift giving would soon start to escalate. They both go out to get jobs to earn money to keep up with this gift giving frenzy, all the while their friendship was going sour.
End the end they both come to the realization that the girl was just using both of them for monetary gain. They both snub the girl and thus preserve their friendship.
I think this Cartoon was a warning, a foretelling of the future. Animatronic Clothes may try to still your girlfriends. Please lets band together to prevent this! Food for thought.
So finally the problem of removing the bra has been solved.
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from Janet Jackson's bustier.
This would make for an awesome hat/raincoat. No, you don't have to be nude under.
So we can now transform loose light weight clothing into slightly different configurations through motors that can last atleast the 30 seconds necessary for a fashion show on 80 pound models that avoid body movements. Seems pretty useless to me, why's this on /.?
But whos idea was it to put costumes on the skeletons?
There's an effort at MIT to develop Mechanically Active Materials.
"Team 2 is developing nanomaterials that are capable of mechanical actuation and dynamic stiffness. As part of the soldier's battlesuit, these adaptive multifunctional materials will improve soldier survivability.
Mechanical actuators embedded as part of a soldier's uniform will allow a transformation from a flexible and compliant material to a non-compliant material that becomes armor, thus protecting the soldier by distributing impact. Soft switchable clothing can also be transformed into a reconfigurable cast that stabilizes an injury such as a broken leg. Contracting materials can be made to apply direct pressure to a wound, function as a tourniquet, or even perform CPR when needed. Mechanical actuators can also be used as exo-muscles for augmentation of a soldier's physical strength or agility and as wound compresses."
There are some polymer gels that change shape when an electric field is applied. And shape-memory alloys, which have been a solution looking for a problem for decades, have already been used for a dress with a changing hemline.
All those little motors and strings are a theatrical effect; that approach is too fragile and bulky.
Grab the video from YouTube (there are Greasemonkey scripts for this) and fire it through mencoder. Result - models that look less freakishly thin.
Given that all the models walk like manically depressed androids with broken arm-servo's. What's with that stupid walk anyway?
The fashion industry has no redeeming value whatsoever.
Judging by how fast the models end up nekkid, I'd say badly.
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Looks like they French fasion industry has perfected cloning but are too thin. Some of the clothing was interesting but I wonder how they kept people from popping the bubbles on the one with the jumbo bubblewrap.
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Hot rich chicks with technologcally advanced clothing will need top engineering talent to implement and maintain cloths. WHERE DO I APPLY??
They can have my command prompt when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
However if a car company doesn't produce a ridiculous concept car it won't get any attention at all, not even to its real products.
Same with fashion events. Getting a models tities exposed ensures that you will get eyeballs. Your name mentioned in the press. No these dresses won't ever appear on the street but you can bet that this guy's name will. Well, just look at slashdot. Naked boobies, tech gadget and voila, thousands of geek visitors to a high fashion site by people who think haute couture is a t-shirt with no food stains.
So fashion shows are NOT art shows, they are a combination of show-off shows and presentations. If you watch the entire tape you will have plenty of "realistic" clothes that women with plenty of money can wear without being arrested.
Oh and don't forget that once you move up as a woman even simple regular dresses involve a lot of nudity. Just ask a female used to wearing evening dresses how many of them just don't allow for the wearing of any undies.
Go to more fashionable places in the near future and you will see some of the dresses of this show make an appearance. No I doubt you will be invited (neither am I but because I work for a firm that handles the tech of all kinds of events (from shows like this to private parties) I do get to see some of the stuff going on in the land of the cool people).
Many respectful physicists said they wouldn't go to stand for that sort of thing, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
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