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.

[(Unverified) Posted 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!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

What happens when you need to wash the pillow/fabric?

(gulp)

Evan Evans

[(Unverified) Posted 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."

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

#3, that was awesome, literally laughed out loud.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

This would suck if you wanted to sleep and your buddies were feeling text-happy though...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

The Germans are famouse for their hard-porn, I wonder what his wife texted him for?...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

Will it do Mandlebrot's ? :-)