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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."
Did you see what happens at 14:45 of the video?
Now THAT is a "wardrobe malfunction"!!!
Skip to the end. There's a mostly nude model wearing a massive hat and a thin veil like gown. She truly does look like a big skinny lamp. All of a sudden, the hat starts pulling up the gown until she's standing their completely nude - really rather ridiculous.
Crack - Free with every butt and set of boobs
YouTube link for those wanting to skip straight to the nudity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFl0rNNQrY
Slashdot seems set on screwing up URLs with the mms protocol. This link should work.
The animatronic stuff starts at about the 10 minute mark, and there's full frontal nudity at around the 15:30 mark, in case you're at work.
The details are trivial and useless; The reasons, as always, purely human ones.
But whos idea was it to put costumes on the skeletons?