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."

Comments

wardrobe malfunction?

[wealthychef]

I'd hate to see what the new definition of "wardrobe malfunction" will be now!

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[KeiichiMorisato]

Did you see what happens at 14:45 of the video?

Now THAT is a "wardrobe malfunction"!!!

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[Dr. Eggman]

Check it out, I totally overclocked my pants! The zipper can zip up from unzipped to zipped up in 1/5 of a second! Plus the coolant system is quite refreshing.



*sniff**sniff*

Do you smell smoke?

Re:wardrobe malfunction?

[x2A]

In the land of animatronic clothing, the man with a remote is king

Animatronic models?

[gardyloo]

Hopefully, they can figure out how to put some emotion on those faces!

The future of clothing?

[Salvance]

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.

Re:The future of clothing?

[Salvance]

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.

Re:The future of clothing?

[gardyloo]

I'd look at the video again, but after a description like that, you KNOW it's slashdotted now.

Re:That's a relief.

[Harmonious Botch]

You just have to worry about it being closed.

Re:That's a relief.

[Dunbal]

No more worrying about my fly being open.

      Now you just have to worry about your trousers slicing your dick off if you DID leave it open...

Link

[mr_nuff]

YouTube link for those wanting to skip straight to the nudity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFl0rNNQrY

Tubes

[RealGrouchy]

FTA:

Some of the corsets were very complicated. They had 30 or 40 of these little tubes running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.

So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!

- RG>

Re:Freaking Nerds

[CaptainCarrot]

As you move through life, you'll discover that tits are fairly commonplace. Every woman has two. The geeks that actually have a wife/female cohabitator (not to mention those that are women) can see a pair every day. Clothing that adjusts itself is rather more unusual.

It is fortunate for the sake of your blood pressure that you evidently didn't continue to the end, when a model's wrap disappears entirely into her hat.

Frog-Shirt

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Animatronic bra

[viking80]

So finally the problem of removing the bra has been solved.