Ok, it’s not all that pretty, but I like the future of it. If I were a pretty, skinny famous person going to the Oscars, I’d have them make me a more subtle version, with just a few colors, like a black dress and various shades of blue LEDs.
I think I’ll go down the the Museum of Science and Industry when the exhibit opens to see it in person.
In a few years this kind of outerwear (using more technologically-advanced and cheaper versions of the fabric) will be very commonplace, in regular clothing too. Kids (and adults) will be buying programmable light-up clothing in Target.
I thought it was actually going to be a black dress with the LEDs arranged in the shape of the Milky Way or something. That completely prosaic rank and file arrangement is BOOOORING!
I would totally wear an LED suit. Or an LED jogging suit. Actually, I’d wear anything with LEDs all over it, even the dress if that was my only option.
Not a bad version 1.0 demo, IMO. They need to reduce the pixel size, and display more complex patterns, images, and full motion videos. The plain color thing gets old pretty quickly, but what if the dress showed the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory, the Declaration of Independence, Apollo VIII’s earth rise, a Mondrian, and other iconic images and videos. In rotation.
Or display a live NFL feed on the bodice - every man’s eyes will be fixed there for the whole party.
My first thought was video! Since I’m dirty-minded (and the wearer would be an attention whore anyway) I imagined a nude walk video that might or might not be the wearer: “You’ll never know!” Then I considered feature films across her lap.
Too bad the best they could do was a sort of rippling plaid effect.
No indication of when that happened, but if it was recent, then Venus Hum got there first (it’s a Blue Man Group performance, and she comes out around 3:00).
24,000 lights is not a galaxy. 3 orders of magnitude off for even a dwarf galaxy. Maybe a globular cluster but not a galaxy. Doesn’t “the globular cluster dress” have a nicer ring to it anyway?
Me too. I was picturing something akin to Kate Winslet’s dressin Titanic, but with tiny white LEDs sprinkled among the crystal beads. Or a black or midnight blue velvet dress with a spiral pattern reminiscent of the Milky Way.
That thing, on the other hand, is a cross between plaid and gaudy Christmas decorations.
Now THAT would be beautiful. I love that dress, and the red one too, the one worn when she was going to take her dive off the back of the ship. I can’t find a picture of it. A dress like that, with red LEDs, would be great.
