June 5, 2005
Fashion industry covets 'iPod factor' Fashion, Technology
Can you imagine putting your address book and photo album on in the morning along with your socks? Or how about using a "3D printer" to make your own shoes on demand? How about clothes peppered with plastic LEDs that let you change the fabric's pattern at will? These are just some of the bizarre predictions coming from an unlikely research partnership between the London College of Fashion (LCF), based in London's übertrendy Soho district, and the staid UK telecoms firm BT.
[...] Pearson sees clothing becoming part of a "personal area network", a digital bubble in which the gadgets in your clothes communicate with your handhelds - things like cellphones and PDAs - and, should you wish it, with other people's bubbles. "You could have a wireless data exchange between bubbles, perhaps between people's intelligent jewellery in a bar," says Pearson. "You might transmit info on your likes and dislikes to help find a compatible date all the quicker," he suggests.
[via New Scientist and Agenda Inc.]
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