Comments on: Wearable LED display

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:16:49 +0000

Very nice! I can just imagine in a few years this will be a new advertising method. Worn by bike couriers, joggers, service people… Could be a huge potential market! The resolution would have to be better but this is a great proof of concept for the conductive thread. Good luck in the future with this idea.

By: cyberfunk

cyberfunk — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:27:04 +0000

Well I’m glad that the NSF’s money is going somewhere useful… (see bottom of linked page).

Also.. Is it me.. or is that poor girl somewhat.. unlucky in the beatuy department… That stare on the videos.. that’s freaking creepy.

By: geoff kim

geoff kim — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:05:26 +0000

Woohoo! Parrtayy!
Would be cooler if you could send SMS messages and have it display on people’s clothing.

By: radioeyes

radioeyes — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:44:19 +0000

The Brit techno-fashion store Cyberdog has some more advanced shirts that go so far as to have the Martrix code scroll on electroluminescent displays. Unfortunately, the shirts tend to go for around $80~$120. http://www.cyberdog.net, and look for “light tees”

By: leah buechley

leah buechley — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:09:25 +0000

thanks for the comments! would love to hear from anyone who used my instructions to make something similar. i agree that the bracelet is more interesting, but it was harder to make, and therefore not as good a candidate for a diy posting. i’ll try to post my code by the end of the week.

By: billytheimpaler

billytheimpaler — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:36:14 +0000

*ot*
weblogs inc. (parent company of hack-a-day) sold to aol! say it ain’t so.

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2005-10-06T034342Z_01_N05108393_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBLOGS-AOL.XML

By: Wireframe

Wireframe — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:22:16 +0000

What would be really cool is if someone could sew a small speaker somewhere under the garment and have some realtime LED Visualisations (even if its just an equaliser)…..

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:06:58 +0000

By: Duncan Domingue

Duncan Domingue — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:42:10 +0000

I had this idea a couple of years ago, except I wanted to use a white shirt and use surface mount LEDs behind the fabric so it would just glow through. I also wanted to make a couple of soft & small keypads that I could keep in my pockets that hooked up to the shirt. The purpose? T-shirt PONG. The problem? College kid with no money. Oh well, I’m pretty sure it’s been thought of long before I thought of it and long before she did it.

By: marnargulus

marnargulus — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:18:40 +0000

Thanks mojo, that was exactly what I was looking for.

By: Mojo Jojo

Mojo Jojo — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:44:08 +0000

Hey Marnagulus you mean something like this

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/LEDBed/index.html

Not sure if the guy is still selling the kits or not but I bought one I love it, would post pics but alas no camera. This link was on /. about this time last year.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:41:46 +0000

Josh that is a great ideawith the motorcycle turn signals. You could even turn the entire back of the jacket into a giant brake light display.

By: joelanders

joelanders — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:03:13 +0000

hey marnargulus, that sounds like a great idea- be sure to keep us informed. you should mount them along the bottom of the walls so that the light goes up all pretty. maybe alternate red green blue and be able to adjust brightness so you could make more colors… that would be so cool.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:53:12 +0000

I think the bracelet that she made is a cooler looking aplication of the same principals
though i can see a motorcycle jacket with built in turnsignals on the sholders being useful

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:45:29 +0000

Jesus gyus this is really cool – i am making similary project here i denmark and this is really a nice project. Like the bracelet even more. The thing about taking electronic devices out of content is really great more of that stuff.