More on E-textiles: Electronic Smart Fabric 150
Little Hamster writes "The IEEE spectrum has an article on e-textile, where conductive fibers woven into fabric using standard textile techniques carry power to sensors, actuators and microcontrollers embedded in the cloth. The result is snowmobilers jacket that can detect crashes and txt an SMS message for help, carpet that can detect motion, or a T-shirt that shows videos. Oh, and the smart fabric is washable too."
Let's see here... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:4, Funny)
Dammit honey (Score:3, Funny)
~S
Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm...come to think of it, that'd be a worthwhile application...I'd buy one.
no cheating (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh great... (Score:5, Funny)
You could also make .... (Score:5, Funny)
Wondering what that guy is doing with your daughter? This sensors on her clothes will monitor everything from body temperature, to heart rate, to surface contact! Using this you can determine if articles have been removed and remotely activate an electric shock - or using the builting GPS, track down the guy and beat him to a pulp the old fasion way!
Furthermore, the dancing images of Hello Kitty displayed on the clothing will ensure that any girl will be dying to have them! Yours for only $199.99!
No Sweet-thing (Score:5, Funny)
Great, just what the world needs, a Tommy Hilfiger jacket that can implement the [marquee] tag.
KFG
Yes, but can it... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:no cheating (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, that's gonna be a big seller.
KFG
Obvious joke... (Score:3, Funny)
Or better yet... (Score:3, Funny)
how long... (Score:3, Funny)
I can see a lot of potential here if the technology gets far enough...instead of a wrist-mounted little GPS device that shows "you are here" info, you might have the length of an entire shirt-sleeve for a display. Maybe Big Brother can implement some sort of forced personal information display so that wi-fi sensors in the shirt respond to remote commands issued by police to display your name, address, etc. across the front or back of your shirt. Heck, they could just forget that and track you using the homing signal in your cyber-undies.
And, of course, the obvious: the day somebody ports an emulator or three to ThreadIX, the Clothing Operating System of the Future, "pocket pool" will take on a whole new meaning.
OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
So now when I get my coffee from that darling teeny-bopper downstairs I'll be forced to see Brittany Spears and Justin Timberlake VIDEOS on her shirts. Oh the pain.
Well, at least that gives me an excuse to stare.
Not like RFIDs or anything (Score:3, Funny)
Um. (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not sure I'd need sensors on my shirt to be able to tell if it had been penetrated by a bullet-- unless I was far enough away from my shirt, and then I'd wonder why it was getting shot at.
What about... (Score:5, Funny)
What about some moral fiber that can detect corrupt CEO's?
(rimshot)
They watched Back to the Future II (Score:3, Funny)
"Your jacket is now dry."
Re:a likely scenario (Score:3, Funny)
Until they decide to just pulverise the first nerd they see
Re:how long... (Score:5, Funny)
No thanks (Score:2, Funny)
I am sure someone can find a way to hack it and put malicious content on your t-shirt. Let say you are walking down the street and suddenly someone put some porn on your shirt, that can be very embarrassing
Re:Impractical (Score:3, Funny)
... CyberJack ... Star Wars ... Star Trek ...
Only on /. would you see a statement like the first, backed up by citing examples from Science Fiction. ;)
Glad bags + Symantec? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's a start (Score:4, Funny)
that way when I have a party and someone pukes on it, and its still stained after I clean it up, the carpet can change to match the color of the carpet, and thereby mask the stain...
Just don't go drinking southern comfort, I don't think that a nuclear orange carpet would look good, but by that thought I can't think of any shade of puke that would look good.