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46” woven display with integrated smart sensors and energy harvesting
- beardyw 5y agoWhilst these sorts of things look appealing and are technically impressive, I struggle to see where they fit into anyone's life.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoIt could be useful for medical reasons I think.
- brudgers 5y agoSome people, though not me, would probably dig wearing display textiles. Clothes are integral to contemporary human experience, a massive industry, and a well spring of technical innovation (e.g. Nike shoes).
- lopis 5y agoNew exciting ways to display ads in all surfaces.
- sschueller 5y agoDisney parades, store displays?
- vorticalbox 5y agoDynamic rugs.
- have_faith 5y agoImagine my excitement
- avs733 5y agough...uniforms for employees
- tempodox 5y agoI bet it will get used as wearable all-encompassing individual surveillance kit first.
- AndrewDucker 5y agoAwesome t-shirts!
- detritus 5y agoFlags for countries prone to frequent regime change?
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThat comment isn't going to win the Internet today, but you won my Internet for today.
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- herodoturtle 5y agoCamouflaged overalls that adapt to ones surroundings.
- achenet 5y agoRoughly 10 years ago I would walk home from university dreaming about making clothes like this. This could be one of the futures of high fashion. (If you think that’s silly, look at a few runway shows)
- lordnacho 5y agoYou'd never have to change clothes again. Wear one of these, and you can have your work uniform, change to your football team, go on failed dates, and so on. Fast fashion is not great for the planet, and you don't have to use space in your house for a bunch of clothes that are mostly not being worn.
- zardo 5y ago>You'd never have to change clothes again. This stinks
- smrk007 5y agoMy thoughts are it could create clothes or furniture that will last longer fashion-wise. Any of your clothes or furniture look out of style? Just download a new style online!
- nanomonkey 5y agoImagine if the sleeve of your hoodie could display information and contact points. Now imagine you get a call or have an idea and your hoodie could be fully flipped over your face, allowing you a full field private screen. Imagine if your jacket could signal to those around you your intentions while driving. Your gloves could light up objects that it holds. Now imagine that your clothes also harvest energy...
- jacquesm 5y agoEasy: your clothes will turn into dynamic advertising space that can be sold off to the highest bidder depending on who you are and where you are.
- ByThyGrace 5y agoAnd what drink you're holding!
- bratwurst3000 5y agoThis is very interesting. Just moments ago I was wondering what happened to digital cloths as I played around with that like 10 years ago. This has a big importance for professionel outfits. They could signal different states of what the proffesionels are doing. And so better comunicate between professionels at work. First responders for example. Who is who and who is working on what could be done that way
- cs702 5y agoVery cool! Make sure to look at all the videos posted by the authors: Videos: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6#Sec17 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6#Sec17 Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6 The technology is only going to get better from here on: thinner fabrics, higher resolution, faster response times.
- samwillis 5y agoIt looks like quite a thick weave currently but that’s only going to get better. Having lived and worked in the tech industry in Cambridge (used to design biotech/medical devises) this is exactly the type of development that the university and local business are brilliant at scaling up and industrialising. There is a lot of Seed/VC funding available from previous founders who are looking for exciting tech to invest in. And the local skills there are amazing, I loved my time working for Cambridge tech companies.
- sethammons 5y agoThe second demo video from the linked nature article is neat. https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-022-28459-6/MediaObjects/41467_2022_28459_MOESM5_ESM.mov https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414... From the supplementary movie links at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6#MOESM4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28459-6#MOESM4
- ByThyGrace 5y agoWow. A Quicktime .MOV container, in 2022? I'm amazed. (Sorry for the tangent.)
- peatmoss 5y agoMy sister has gone deep with traditional techniques for spinning various fibers into yarn for knitting, and has recently started learning some Peruvian weaving techniques. This has me thinking about technoweaving collectives high in the Andes, and how this would be the most cyber punk thing ever. Then I start to wonder seriously if we'll hit a point where traditional artisans working with these kinds of materials would be able to create truly novel things with practical uses.
- vidarh 5y agoThere's this awesome series of Pervuian cyberpunk comics[1] (the first ones are out, and they're great; the the latest one has been funded isn't complete yet). Maybe it's worth making Vargas aware of this development as inspiration for future comics. [1] https://comicscene.org/2021/10/14/pilcuyo-a-peruvian-cyberpunk-saga-is-coming-to-kickstarter/ https://comicscene.org/2021/10/14/pilcuyo-a-peruvian-cyberpu...
- kwhitefoot 5y agoWhy does a press release from a European university measure something in inches? And what dimension does it actually refer to?
- jfengel 5y agoThe UK uses both metric and Imperial measurements, depending on the circumstances. And you will see more of it: the government is very proud that Brexit means ditching the metric system. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-plans-to-capitalise-on-new-brexit-freedoms https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-plans...
- vidarh 5y agoEven in many places where inches is much rarer in use than in the UK, it's still common to use for the diagonal of displays. Of course that only makes sense if they've stuck to roughly a common display aspect ratio.
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- fartcannon 5y agoA full page of cookie nonsense!