Friday, July 09, 2004
Wearing your cellphone display on your sleeve
Researchers at France Telecom have recently developed operational prototypes of flexible colour screens integrated into clothing, opening up new horizons for services that let users display images on the clothes they wear. An initial range of purpose-built garments has been created by the designer Elisabeth de Senneville.
“Clothes are becoming a key interface for giving graphic expression and form to your moods. It’s a very personal symbolism, an emotion or state of mind that you can now display publicly and very simply through eye-catching animated graphics and short texts,” explains Emeric Mourot, R&D project manager.”