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Adobe's latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just want healthcare and a planet that's not on fire.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Best I can do is microplastics in your blood.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

We already have forever chemicals in your blood at home. It’s called Teflon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What percent cyborg does this make me?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Adobe wasn't going to fix either of those problems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For that, people would need to stop voting for neoliberals first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL. I hadn't looked up that word before, just assumed it meant 'new liberal' in the USA liberal vs conservative sense, when really it seems to mean virtually the opposite of what liberal means here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not really. The trick in the US system is that both parties are neoliberal, so there actually isn't a choice. They just differ in social aspects (neoliberalism is purely about economy).

The opposite of a neoliberal within a democratic framework would more or less be a social democrat (like Bernie Sanders).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

What steps are you taking towards that goal?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happens when adobe decides to stop supporting this? Are you left with useless waste?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And how much is the annual subscription?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

$69.99/month. $49.99 for every design change.

$999.99 for a 2 year warranty. Only Adobe Technicians can service it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you miss a payment in your subscription, it will randomly turn transparent while you’re out and about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

👀👀👀👀

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

> Adobe

The clothing will go transparent unless you pay a monthly fee.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The clothing will have 3rd party ads unless you pay a monthly fee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just what I need.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

So if your subscription expires, will it go fully transparent?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

While cool, what a waste of everything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Beautiful plastic bullshit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adobe's CEO Shantanyu is a greedy bastard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could we ban that kinda shit for climate change until the planet's unfucked please

(i.e. probably never)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If it makes money to someone, fuck the planet. We all know how capitalism works at this point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My pencil case wore it better

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

*while standing.

Imagine sitting down with this and it not breaking to pieces. Also, the power pack and whatever the compute module is also back there, and definitely not small.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They probably have their arm behind their back for a reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Power and compute unit is rather trivial problem to solve, I suppose it's big as it's on a prototype state. But that looks more like a scale mail apron with e-ink displays than a fabric you could actually use as a clothing. Neat tech demo, but that's pretty much it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you watch the video? She said she sewed each piece together herself. It's sewn, not one rigid piece of anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's also 30 second clip showing how the thing is built and it is pretty much scale mail -style pieces with an single pixel e-ink style display (apparently that's not really e-ink, but something similar). That's not something I would call 'fabric'. Embedding electronics to clothing isn't a new idea and it has been done by hobbyists and professionals over and over again with different solutions, this is just one more.

I don't doubt her claim, she sewed the dress and the components on top of it, but that's still not something I would call 'dynamic clothing'. If I hot glue an E-ink display on my baseball cap and mount batteries + arduino on it would that be dynamic clothing? With some definition, maybe, but in my opinion the story claims to be a bit more than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just in time for Halloween. Let’s all get this dress, make Rorschach masks and terrorize CEOs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not very practical. How do you clean this thing? One drunk white girl night and that thing is headed to the landfill

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You want me to wear the same thing twice? Why do you hate me?