[ivox3]

Coming to a teenager near you.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk

[Hervé]

hey That's cool stuff.. I can see a great potential... wow..

Thanks Chris

[x_site]

over 100 million years of evolution... and we come to this!

[lsega77]

Now do that with underwear and you're gonna make things reallly interesting....

Luis

[RonB]

It's a sad but perfectly good example of the motivational direction of R&D for any kind of technology in our society...creating sellable junk that does nothing but advertise consumption.

I know it's an unrealistic fantasy, but what if those brilliant minds that created this excess, and it's really nothing more than that, had been directed to apply their focus to help solve real problems?

Some say this stuff is cool, I say it's just more crap to deal with.

[Jozvex]

A lot of things start off as a gimick or seemingly useless, only later to be put to great use. You can't always start at the top.

As it is you could use that fabric for:

1. Road workmen at night
2. Bicycle riders at night
3. Safer toys for young children maybe? Toys with colour/light responses are usually hard plastic things with corners.
4. Maybe the changing room curtains in clothes shops could have a red X or green tick to say if they're occupied?
5. Perhaps if they used black/uv light (or whatever) the miltary could use it for night training in their uniforms etc.

Those may not be the greatest examples but, just about every technology can be helpful in some way. It just might not be obvious initially.

[b-kandor]

RonB: Here Here!

The first world is awash in make work projects - profilerating pointless crap that's so poorly made your lucky if it gets out of the packaging without breaking. Meanwhile, 1 billion are starving- and last year for the first time ever our resource consumption ratio (good to keep this below 1 folks) rose to 1.2:1

[Hervé]

It's a sad but perfectly good example of the motivational direction of R&D for any kind of technology in our society...creating sellable junk that does nothing but advertise consumption.

I know it's an unrealistic fantasy, but what if those brilliant minds that created this excess, and it's really nothing more than that, had been directed to apply their focus to help solve real problems?

Some say this stuff is cool, I say it's just more crap to deal with.

understand me Ron... it is crap... but it is cool...

Coca cola is crap... we don't need it... how much energy goes into that..? but drinking one is cool..

[Voidmonster]

I can pretty easily envision this tech being used in socially relevant ways. Phillips likes to think it's for advertising, but it's not hard for me to imagine a future wherein your shirt talks to your cellphone and gives you location-based information. The earliest and stupidest application would be displaying whatever icon is associated with a caller on your contact list when talking to them.

The same concept allows for much more interesting and cool stuff, however. There is -- of course -- the advertising potential. Businesses could contract with ad agencies to pay anyone with visually addressable clothing to hang out near their stores.

Alternately, people could program their cell phones to run scrolling lists of all the lawsuits any given business has settled out of court whenever they're near that business.

More personally interesting, the clothing/cell combo could be linked up with online dating software so that people with compatible profiles show that to you when you're nearby, with some sort of configurable image or animation.

Yeah, it's kind of useless at the moment, but it's an additional form of communication and communication is kind of important to our species.

[Hervé]

could be linked to your comp @ home... displaying the SL.. of your render... hehe

[ivox3]

A lot of things start off as a gimick or seemingly useless, only later to be put to great use. You can't always start at the top.

As it is you could use that fabric for:

1. Road workmen at night
2. Bicycle riders at night
3. Safer toys for young children maybe? Toys with colour/light responses are usually hard plastic things with corners.
4. Maybe the changing room curtains in clothes shops could have a red X or green tick to say if they're occupied?
5. Perhaps if they used black/uv light (or whatever) the miltary could use it for night training in their uniforms etc.

Those may not be the greatest examples but, just about every technology can be helpful in some way. It just might not be obvious initially.

This is the spirit ........

[Hervé]

hey Chris !!!!!!!! PM me..

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2. Bicycle riders at night
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If i saw a prat wearing that jumper at night on his bike i would run him over... hehe

[b-kandor]

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2. Bicycle riders at night
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If i saw a prat wearing that jumper at night on his bike i would run him over... hehe

My 3 year old would say your 'nasty' - then he would furrow his brow at you and scowl - so there!

[kirkt]

How about a 30" Cinema Display that you could roll up and store in a tube and take with you to use with a handheld or laptop. That would be cool.

The bicyclist thing is sort of like the Bicycle "Spoke POV":

http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/portf ... index.html

This is my favorite though:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/minty/index.html