Re: Where did the LED M*** S**** thread disappear to?
This girls not just getting an led strip and stitching it in with a couple of AAA's taped together, hoping for the best and going ooooooooooo look at the light. She's coding her own control app, designing a new enclosure that hooks on to a belt and using 3D printers to make them (and other projects). She's even blogged her thoughts on expanding the idea. Some of which I reckon you can really see catching on, in her part of the world especially!
"The original Hiraku skirt is self contained with limited functionality. The versions I have read about either respond to sound, or to motion. It's basically just an electric bangle- like the reflective belts belly dancers wear that flash when you move. What I wanted was a smart skirt- a true wearable output device. Right now I just use the app that came with the board to control the skirt, but even that offers a ton of functionality. I've almost finished a new, smaller enclosure after that I think I will code a better control app. Some ideas so far: * I can sample my outfits color- even multiple colors and coordinate my skirt to those colors. * I can set specific colors that match certain holidays- red and yellow for Chinese New Year and flash in the pattern of lucky Chinese numbers. Red White and Blue for a 4th of July BBQ with my foreign friends. The team colors at a sporting event. * If I set my phone up as a open wireless AP, and have the skirt colors change or brighter depending on the number of connected wifi clients (and so crowd size). * Chinese girls love to wear matching outfits on a girls night out. Not only can our skirts match colors, they can chance in sync or strobe in complex patters across a group. * We can use the skirts to coordinate complex group dance patterns or games of tag. * It can be used for speed dating meetups- if you approach a girl with a lot of shared interests her skirt glows green, otherwise it glows red so you are saved the embarrassment of trying to make conversation with someone you have little in common with. That's just off the top of my head. Women already use clothes and fashion as a primary social signal- it's one of the ways we communicate with the world. Variable wearable fashion builds on and allows us to automate that."
How is someone dressed in more than a bikini could be offensive to anyone anyway?
As Semiman says there have been some garments around for a number of years but the only ones I have ever seen have been on ads on DX etc
