AwareFashion project provides cellphone alerts via clothing
Forget about WiFi finders that you have to carry, or MoSoSo tools that require you to constantly check your cellphone. Richard Etter, a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute, has put together a design spec for something calls AwareFashion, or "clothes that sense your digital and social environment." The idea is that your shirt holds a chipset that can detect various signals, such as those from GSM phones or WiFi hotspots, and your cuffs will light up to indicate their presence. Of course, to really be effective as a social tool, the shirt would need to be able to interpret specific information, such as Caller ID and SMS streams from your cellphone. When that happens, we'll be ready to order a few, as long as we can throw them in the wash without destroying the whole system.
[Via textually.org]
