Here’s more clothing employing bluetooth / mobile phone technology (similar to the Hug Shirt) that seemed to go through a few weblogs some months ago (We Make Money Not Art, Turbulance and Digital Experience).
MoBeeline (the site was down as of posting) is conceived and developed by Chang Soo Lee and Hye Joo Lee at New York Universities Interactive Telecommunications Program.
A signal is sent from one users mobile phone to another’s using SMS. The Bluetooth device in the recipient’s phone connects to a microcontroller which then transfers the sent signal/SMS to LED’s on the recipient’s clothes to create colors, patterns or emoticons on the garment. These are intended to correspond to the feelings the sender wishes to communicate to the recipient. Below is a diagram of the devices workings.
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November 26th, 2006 at 12:21 am
[…] RoPaSci was created as a final project for the Networked Objects class at New York Universities Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2003. This is the second project from this program I have discussed here (MoBeeLine was the other) and there are many more interesting works (although not all networked) listed on their projects page. […]
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December 21st, 2006 at 1:39 pm
[…] Similar explorations of wearable devices include: MoBeeLine (also from ITP, note the common use of “Mo”, Mobile, same tutor or the start of an augmented fashion line? :), Hug Shirt, Flame 5, Volume over Lumen, LoveJacket and HugJackets. […]
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