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Intimacy 2.0 - a dress that flirts

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This dress seems like something straight out of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. It's almost a cross of the 'onion-skin' jeans and the apparats that everyone wears.

If you haven't read the book (you should): Apparats: It’s a wonderful invention that ranks everybody. When I enter a bar in downtown Manhattan, my entire history is broadcast to everybody, and immediately everyone knows I’m the eighteenth ugliest man in the room but I have the fourth-best credit rating.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162097/gary-shteyngart-intervi...

The onion skins: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...

Or just check page 89 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKk8w8buCxYC&lpg=PA83&#...

So cool yet so stupid at the same time. I wonder how much it costs to manufacture it.

"What fascinates me the most is the materials used in making this dress possible - Smart foils, wireless technologies, electronics, LEDs, copper and more"

... and probably "Like" for becoming more transparent.

Now, all we need is a flannel shirt version of this...

I think the general idea that wearable textiles can change dramatically in real-time during usage is pretty cool.

Aside from the old temperature based slow changing material and a Neal Stepheson book, I haven't seen this idea implemented.

I hope, for the wearer's sake, that the dress' firmware has been thoroughly checked for exploitable bugs

because as we all know, once you have thoroughly checked for exploitable bugs your system is completely free from exploitable bugs!

Cool use of technologies, but i think it's very objectifying and offensive as clothing. Could be good for curtains or cars tho.

Can you explain why a dress that is meant to become more transparent for people you are intimate with could possibly be objectifying? Unless you become intimate with strangers, I don't see how that is possible.

As a female, I wouldn't necessarily wear this but I approve of the research and the appeal to sexiness to get attention. I'm not sure how more objectifying this is than a pair of high-heels? (equally useless but can be fun to wear in the right environment).

I meant it is offensive for men, not women. Using your clothing transparency to manipulate us so overtly so evilish ... yet so effective.

Do women want this?

maybe not "this", but I can see a market for bio-feedback apparel. Brings a whole new meaning to wearing your heart on your sleeve.

Make it Bluetooth to uplink to the smartphone so it can tweet your arousal levels based on time and map GPS coordinate. Also id like to track 50 other metrics about my body and wetware without me thinking about it.

I should get this, write an Android app and modify a Bluetooth headset to plug into it. Wire it up. Realtime Biofeedback apparel, ill be rich!

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