The Blu Jacket concept from Lunar Design aims to turn our children's children into walking billboards using an electronic fabric based on e-paper technology and space-age organic fabrics. It could display your mood throughout the day, pull up maps using a built-in GPS module, display photos, video and (gasp) even advertisements.
Imagine a future filled with people getting paid to wear annoying ads everywhere you went, or attention seekers getting in your face with a shirt filled with their stupid propaganda. It's a good thing we will all be long dead before this sort of technology becomes widely available. [Lunar Design via Gizmowatch via DVICE]











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I bet it would look better on her if it was crumpled up at the end of my Bed:)
In this case, it says, You are here. I live here. I am going here. Please stock me.
Uma Thurman rides the subway?
I like how they paid the thuggish looking characters behind her to sit around as though nothing was out of the ordinary.
can it display images of the (naked) skin underneath?
@EQC: Or can it display enhanced images of the (naked) skin underneath? Wearable avatars?
@EQC: It auto-pixelates due to public indecency laws.
@DeadWriter: and on the back it says "sorry for my misspelling, feel free to STALK me."
@CGrant: lmao, touché.
@MONSTERGOC: I think this is one of few occasions when the words 'epic fail' are truly fitting.
The neck cone to prevent her from licking herself after surgery is a nice touch.
Panther Modern jumpsuit here i come!
No, really. I wasn't staring at your breasts. I just wanted to see if I could transfer from the B to the V at Lafayette Street.
@Slartibartfast: Not just that. She rides the NYC subway? Or she rides the NEW subway trains that the MTA has been rolling out?
What's with those thugs in the bg...
@CutePuppyz: Indeed she does. That is the IRT (can't tell if it's local or express). The newest trains are on the M and N lines. The crappiest trains are on the Staten Island Railroad.
And the redbirds are sleeping with the fishes off the Jersey shore.
"Imagine a future filled with people getting paid to wear annoying ads everywhere you went, or attention seekers getting in your face with a shirt filled with their stupid propaganda. It's a good thing we will all be long dead before this sort of technology becomes widely available."
Was this line supposed to be ironic? Cause I'm pretty sure this is happening right now. Now let's figure out glasses that block annoying shirts like ADBlock does now.
Getting paid is better than paying to advertise a product. Why the hell do I have to be a walking bill board for products.
oh man I would definitely wear a jacket that auto displayed my mood. Especially when it was like "Kill all slow up the stairs people" or "Must maim all doorblockers who insist on getting on first and hogging the spot by the door" Grrr. See? Grrr.
or even better: Pron when I see yet another one of those New York Knockouts in high heels and a nice summer skirt. damn.
so theoreticaly, at some point in the future you will literaly be able to hack your way into a chicks pants?
"Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants! Use it to get into their heads." - Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip
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I would write that coding can be poetry and art.
I wish that there was an edit button here. The above is in regards to @pantan: so theoreticaly, at some point in the future you will literaly be able to hack your way into a chicks pants?
The days of using homeless people as walking billboards are almost upon us.
Some ads may not translate well to clothing in the states. People may not want to walk around wearing slogans such as:
"Reach out and touch someone."
or
"The quicker-picker-upper."
Imagine walking selling Subway's
"Five Dollar Foot Long! Every Day!"
Actually, it would be a great system for tour guides. They could pull up reconstructed pictures of ruins, kings, etc. It can show a night sky of the region. The driver can use it as a map. It can show animation videos, to keep the kids silent on long, boring trips. And if it has Wifi, it could be used to do extra research.
Of course, at the end of the trip, it would read. Tip please.
I don't see how this would help much of anyone. Tour guides have been doing well all by themselves for years and years they don't need some ugly ass coat with a cone to help em'. Is it just me or is she stoned? I think she got the good stuff from those things, and THAT is why they are there! durrr
Somehow, I do not like the possibilities this idea might open up.
Think about this:
What if some asshole decides to put the video "2 Girls, 1 Cup" on his Jacket?
@Klappstuhl:
Sales of cups would steadily increase?
@Klappstuhl: LMAO oh you made my day before work.
Eh this stuff won't win over large markets. Maybe Steve-O will take your idea?
@MONSTERGOC: booooooo
Is the map version a touch screen?
Sheik rides the subway?
"Imagine a future filled with people getting paid to wear annoying ads everywhere you went..."
Your joking right? I can tell you the present is even worse, people pay good money to wear annoying ads everywhere I go.
@hnkelley:
*pokes nipples for menu
*gets peppersprayed by woman
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