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Communicator Clothing
coondoggie writes "The crew of the classic science-fiction show's Starship Enterprise wore small devices on their chests that they could tap to communicate instantly with their colleagues. Such communications technology is now closer to reality thanks to a Finnish company which this week demonstrated high-tech clothing that can send and receive messages via satellite. The demonstrator antenna, built by the Patria Aviation Oy company, looks like a simple patch of cloth but is capable of operating in the Iridium and GPS frequency band as part of clothing. The Iridium satellites allow two-way voice and data communication, while GPS provides positional data to the user. Iridium could also relay the position of the user."
Pardon me sir, I believe your fly is ringing.
Make it sew....
I want to meet the guy who invented beer and see whats he's up to now.
This is a breakthrough though, because for once it's not MIT!!
You're completely right, though - it's up there with that Captain Android professor twat who likes to get chips inserted just under his skin and pretend he's the first of a new species of android.
Captain Kirk would rather walk up to the cute Ensign, tap her chest, and say, "Do you mind if I use your phone?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
What if you are inside and there are ladies present?
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Poster thinks a silly cap with antennae sticking out of it is high fashion. There won't be ladies present.
Need new moderation option: Evil.
The real hard choice is between Evil(+1) and Evil(-1).
It beat the crap out of TOS and was the best trek of all time!
Thanks for pointing that out, Kanye, but the award is being presented to TOS.