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Imagine clothing that can be made to change color under computer control, and which can also be made to be a node in a wireless network. Now imagine a centralized computer controlling that network which, armed with location information for each node, can cause the crowd to display a bitmap image of
some sort. This would be especially useful for sporting events, where each person in attendance has a view of a large section of the crowd. What to display? The scoreboard would be a good choice. Of course advertising might be attempted, but if it was just annoying, nobody would wear the clothing, so it would be in the interest of the operators to do cool stuff with it.
(?) Hacked football games
http://www.tuxedo.o...eaning%20of%20Hack.
Scroll almost to the bottom of this very long file. Or search on "The Meaning of `Hack'" [bristolz, Dec 10 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Blinkenlights
http://www.blinkenlights.de/
Addressable chameleon building? [wiml, Dec 11 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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I'll wear the underscore shirt |
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Well, po, you could take the "," shirt. Then you'd be the comma chameleon. |
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<grins> I think he meant the 3-D effect you're likely to give to any straight line across your chest... |
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I was imaging the underscore to be, well, under that (those). |
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[PeterSealy]
Well, your post is similar, but what I had in mind is that each garment would be one "pixel" in the larger display controled wirelessly. |
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Ok, I want to be a pixel in the underscore. |
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Yeah, but just try to get the message animated -- Impractical to have all those folks doffing and donning their shirts 15 or 30 times a second. |
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So give them a shirt that's white on the front, black on the back. Give everyone a device that buzzes once for 'face forward', twice for 'face backward'. It's monochromatic, but simple. |
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For all that why not just have everyone carry a 21" LCD flatscreen. Hold it up and display what you want. |
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[deef]: I think that was Caltech who hacked University of Washington cheer squad cards at the Rose Bowl in early 60s. MIT did hack a Harvard game in the 80s by placing a large balloon beneath the turf that inflated at half-time with the letters "MIT" emblazoned on it. |
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Luminous hair. Colour-changeable fibre-optic locks that can light and dim. Visible from above, and a wow at parties. |
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Funny, M.I.T. and Harvard don't play in the same league. Does M.I.T. even have sports? |
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My Christmas tree is fiber-optic. If I could do that to my
hair sometimes, I would in a heartbeat. I like the luminous
hair, pottedstu. |
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those fibre optic christmas trees are so beautiful. I got a deal with a friend where he has it for Christmas and I have it the rest of the year. |
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jimithing - how about fibre optic wigs then? I'd buy one. |
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Some Japanese company just came out with this stuff a while ago. It's a shirt with a liquid screen on the front and you can scan/upload any picture you want onto it. It's neat but not worth the several thousand they're asking for it. |
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