Comments on: Rear view jacket

By: kerrin

kerrin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:10:21 +0000

I’ve often thought having a camera in the center of the back, feeding a t-shirt front composed entirely of flexible display fabric would be a nice way of making one’s torso disappear.

By: Alek

Alek — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:22:16 +0000

wearing this with these keyboard pants would be awesome:
http://www.geekalerts.com/keyboard-pants/
i totally want both. even though the jacket does seem a bit lacking, but maybe i could hack it and post it back here with a how-to so you all could wear the jackets you think it should be

By: kain

kain — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:51:59 +0000

i again do not approve of miked

By: Haku

Haku — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:55:07 +0000

It’s an interesting idea, but with the screen on your wrist your could get tired holding it up to look at, personally I would have used LCD glasses which don’t fully block your normal vision so you can still see forwards, augmented reality in effect. Like those tv-glasses you can get, something similar was shown at the beginning of the Arnie film “True Lies” where he’s keeping an eye on the bad guys whilst pretending to take a leak.

I once tried putting a rear-view camera on my bike which hooked up to a pocket tv on the handlebars, interesting test that showed up a couple of minor flaws; I kept looking down to see what was behind me which distracted from more important things like avoiding anything in front of me, secondly the screen was impossible to see in sunlight and bright daylight.

By: yurijm

yurijm — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:22:07 +0000

If it’s for a motorcycle, just put it in the helmet, so you can turn your head to see other angles

By: Fivelo

Fivelo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:16 +0000

I think it’s ridiculous – granted, maybe it’s a somewhat new idea… But not very well executed and I can’t see it taking off.

It’s using well established technology, yet look at the size of the ‘micro’-camera. Oh and most notablu the guy clearly needs to have words with his fashion advisor :)

By: Hello1024

Hello1024 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:02:17 +0000

Since having learned to drive a car, I am frequently aggravated that I can’t use those wing mirrors when I’m just walking around.

Maybe this could solve that problem?

By: DonQuijote

DonQuijote — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:40:09 +0000

very cool, but i think this is a bit of an overdrive….. such portable power waste, when the exact same thing can be achieved with a pair of rear view sunglasses. now if the jacket had image processing capabilities, that would highlight faces of people you know, or if it would be interconnectable with other gadgets, like your mobile phone, and via it to the internet, or if there would be anything special to it OTHER than looking behind you….. now that, would be worth it. otherwise, it is just a waist of time in my humble opinion.

By: r0m3z

r0m3z — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:15:43 +0000

this is actually a real good idea for a motorcycle jacket. I would buy one.

By: miked

miked — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:37:49 +0000

i do not approve of this post.

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