Philips' SMS pillow
Why whisper sweet nothings when you can just text them? Philips Research has cooked up a number of prototypes for photonic textile fabrics that they'll be showing off at the Internationale Funkausstellung 2005 (which sounds like a rave but we're guessing is likely a more staid type of event) in Berlin, and one of them is this SMS pillow. You send a text message to it and the words scroll across the pillow, thanks to flexible arrays of multicolored LEDs embedded in the fabric. Future applications for this type of LED-embedded fabric will be on-the-fly customizable clothing. As long as we can read our RSS feeds on our next pair of khakis, we're so there.
Filed under: Cellphones, Household, Wearables
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
KC @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
Forget what Hitachi says about the hardrive being "the new Bling"
Phillips has the new bling right here!! This is so much cooler then all those text scrolling belt buckles!
Evan Evans @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
What happens when you need to wash the pillow/fabric?
(gulp)
Evan Evans
mattstan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
What a weird photo.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a fist punching an SMS pillow -- forever."
Tiuk @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
#3, that was awesome, literally laughed out loud.
TxdoHawk @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
This would suck if you wanted to sleep and your buddies were feeling text-happy though...
Samuel Lago @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
The Germans are famouse for their hard-porn, I wonder what his wife texted him for?...
Tom Chiverton @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM
Will it do Mandlebrot's ? :-)