This design concept jacket from Lunar Design aims to turn your torso and neck into a walking anthropomorphic digital display. The Blu Jacket would be made of flexible, organic e-paper: potential applications are displaying advertisements and broadcasting your mood, as well as more mischievous aims like virtual streaking.
This sort of design is a long way off from being plausible, but I can’t wait to see it happen. I think I’d make a point of always showing silent movies on mine: The Lost World and Pandora’s Box and Metropolis and the like. I love the idea that the person staring at me from across the subway isn’t just some random weirdo or smitten stranger, but a viewer, absolutely engrossed by the silver screen drama unfolding on my wardrobe. Hell, you could take the idea even further: the video portion of a movie displayed on your chest as a ghetto-blaster on your shoulder broadcasts the soundtrack. Obnoxious? Yes. But fun!
Lunar Design Blu Jacket [PDF via DVICE via Gizmo Watch]
Silent movies are a good idea, but I think the real slickness would entail a small camera on the front of the jacket displaying what’s ahead of me on my back, and a camera on the back of the jacket displaying what’s behind me on the front of the jacket.
Or perhaps X10 would pay me big money to jump in front of people while displaying ads.
How about a net-connected mic displaying conversation-context sensitive google ads?
[shudder]
On the womenswear, a scrolling marquee across the chest saying “Stop staring at my boobs”.
electronic paper is “electrophoretic”. The coat, on the other hand, may very well be “anthropomorphic”
You could link your clothes together with other peoples’ clothes via wireless, with GPS tracking. That way if you leave the bus but another person gets on who’s on the same feed, the people on the bus can continue watching.
Or a bunch of you could stand together for a simultaneous wide-screen feed.
And be kind. Don’t use a ghetto blaster – broadcast the audio via Bluetooth.
How very Nathan Barley.
I’d love to see this actually existing. And, shoes! Women could finally stop crowding their closets with the same style in every color.
This is already in the works. We will have real Panther Moderns before too long.
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Thanks, that’s the reference I was trying to recall. Now I gotta go find Neuromancer / beat it out of the last person who borrowed it so I can feel like I know the future.
I really do like the idea of being able to project things onto ones garments. But if this technology becomes run of the mill, wont every man and his dog be playing his favourite movie / clip / advert?! The world will become so saturated with visuals it will be impossible!!
-breath-
Oh how i love the future.