Call your shirt
p2pnet.net News:- France Telecom now has working prototypes of flexible colour screens integrated into clothing.
It’s, “opening up new horizons for services that let users display images on the clothes they wear,” says a cellular-news story here, going on:
“These flexible display screens usher in a new type of expression: the image a person wears personalises their clothes to reflect their particular surroundings, centres of interest, moods, etc. Displaying animated visuals on yourself considerably broadens the scope of personal communication by giving you the opportunity to instantly convey emotions or desires in a distinctly novel way, or proclaim your adherence to certain ideas, as with some printed T-shirts. Users choose the type of information they want to highlight on themselves (drawing, logo, animations or short messages they either generate themselves or receive from others).”
“I’d be happy if my pixilated avatar would just bop to the beat of the baseline when I’m out on the town,” posts nym on inforgargoyle here under Raver Wearable Displays.
“Animated clothing is something I’ve been seeing a lot at Burning Man by artists with electroluminescent wire, so I have hope that this technology will encourage fashion to be more creative. For example, I would love a shirt that could display a very large ‘NO SPAM’ message to display disgust in solicitors and peddlers in appropiate situations.”
The screen connects via a Bluetooth link and drawings and animations can be sent by MMS to another user with the same gear, says cellular-news.
“Thanks to a dedicated embedded software application, the mobile can be used as a remote control to activate the screen’s functionalities: adjust the brightness, select the image or text to be displayed, enter text, draw simple animated visuals, download animations from the Internet, etc. A more sophisticated animation editor has been produced to allow professionals to market their own animations, which will be online and downloadable via the Internet from a mobile phone.”
July 9th, 2004 at 4:41 pm
I can’t wait for the first time one of those shirts is hacked. You could make somebody’s shirt read, “I’m a sissy namby pamby boy. ” or “Please ask me about my pickled feces.”
July 9th, 2004 at 5:58 pm
I know *I* can certainly think of some really interesting things that could come up on a shirt.
July 9th, 2004 at 8:58 pm
i sure hope i can watch advertisments to constantly remind of all the fantastic crap i can buy at low, low prices on some dork’s shirt. that would be just great. i wonder if i’d get sued for copyright infringment if i let someone borrow it, or maybe i can sue someone for stealing my pitstains. i think i’d rather hit myself in the head with a shovel just to forget i read that article.
errrrr, sorry.
July 11th, 2004 at 9:06 pm
Jazzy,
srible,.. scrible,… yata,.. yata,… scrible,.. scrible,.. YEAHHHH ! AS IF YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME, JAZZY ? WELL YOU FINALLY RESPONDED, AND I DONT KNOW WHAT,… YOU ARE SAYING TO ME NOW THAT YOU FINALLY RESPONDED ? IF IT TAKES ALL OF THAT TO GET A RESPONCE OUT OF YOU I AM IN SOME TROUBLE HERE AND I CAN ONLY TURN TO YOU FOR HELP AND I AM OUT ON A LIMB A WHOLE LOT FURTHER THAN I THOUGHT I EVER COULD BE, CAUSE I CAN NOT RUN FROM YOU, AND I AINT GOT NO WHERE TO HIDE FROM LOVE, JAZZY ? THE FACT THAT I AM NOT SITTING BESIDE YOU AND YOU ARE NOT SITTING BESIDE ME WHERE I CAN TOUCH YOU OR AT LEAST LOOK INTO YOUR EYES PROFANITY WITH MY MIND ALL THE TIME, EVERYDAY I AM LIVING, AND YOU ARE LIVING, WE ARE LIVING OUR LIVES THAT ARE NOT FROM
MOVIES, THIS IS FOR REAL.
SO YOU WANTED TO TEST ME THIS WEAKEND ? YOU TOLD RAUSALIN AND TEREASA (TERRY), TO TEST ME AND TAKE ME AWAY FRIDAY AND BRING ME BACK SUNDAY, I CANT REMEMBER THE OTHER WOMEN NAMES. I ROAD AROUND IN TEREASA’S CAR AND RAUSALIN’S CAR,.. WHO TOOK ME TO THEIR HOMES ON THE FIRST DAY THEY ASKED ME MY NAME AND PLAYED CARDS AND WATCHED MOVIES AND EXCHANGED SLAP STICK COMEDY JOKES WITH VIDEO CAMERAS ALL OVER THEIR SEPERATE HOUSES, WHILE THEY COOK BREAKFAST FOR ME YESTERDAY AND SERVE IT TO ME ON A TABLE THAT WENT OVER ME WHILE I WAS SLEEPING IN BED THAT WAS HOT AS I WOKE UP SMELLING THE FRESH FOOD WITH NOBODY IN THE ROOM IN A HOUSE WITH A FULL SIZE SWIMMING POOL IN THE BACK YARD,… AND I AM NOT SO GULLIBLE TO BELEIVE THEY LET ME IN AND GAVE ME A SHOLDER MESSAGE AND EVERYTHING INCLUDING LEAVING THAT MONEY ON THE STAND KNOW GOOD AND WELL I AINT GOING TO TOUCH NOTHING THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ME AT ALL,…. AS IF I KNEW THEM AND LETS BE FOR REAL I DID NOT KNOW THEM AND IT IS BEYOND REASONING I BELEAVE THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ME COMPLETLY
FOR THE SOFA AND POP-CORN