Adobe’s latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button::undefined

      • @davidgro@lemmy.world
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        39 months ago

        TIL. I hadn’t looked up that word before, just assumed it meant ‘new liberal’ in the USA liberal vs conservative sense, when really it seems to mean virtually the opposite of what liberal means here.

        • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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          59 months ago

          Not really. The trick in the US system is that both parties are neoliberal, so there actually isn’t a choice. They just differ in social aspects (neoliberalism is purely about economy).

          The opposite of a neoliberal within a democratic framework would more or less be a social democrat (like Bernie Sanders).

  • @GameWarrior
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    659 months ago

    What happens when adobe decides to stop supporting this? Are you left with useless waste?

    • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      79 months ago

      If it makes money to someone, fuck the planet. We all know how capitalism works at this point.

    • alphacyberranger
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      39 months ago

      I have no issue against Indians, but these indian CEOs are absolute cunts and making us hate corporates even more ( Google, Microsoft, Adobe etc just to name a few)

  • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    89 months ago

    *while standing.

    Imagine sitting down with this and it not breaking to pieces. Also, the power pack and whatever the compute module is also back there, and definitely not small.

    • DreamButt
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      69 months ago

      They probably have their arm behind their back for a reason

    • @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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      49 months ago

      Power and compute unit is rather trivial problem to solve, I suppose it’s big as it’s on a prototype state. But that looks more like a scale mail apron with e-ink displays than a fabric you could actually use as a clothing. Neat tech demo, but that’s pretty much it.

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          29 months ago

          There’s also 30 second clip showing how the thing is built and it is pretty much scale mail -style pieces with an single pixel e-ink style display (apparently that’s not really e-ink, but something similar). That’s not something I would call ‘fabric’. Embedding electronics to clothing isn’t a new idea and it has been done by hobbyists and professionals over and over again with different solutions, this is just one more.

          I don’t doubt her claim, she sewed the dress and the components on top of it, but that’s still not something I would call ‘dynamic clothing’. If I hot glue an E-ink display on my baseball cap and mount batteries + arduino on it would that be dynamic clothing? With some definition, maybe, but in my opinion the story claims to be a bit more than that.

  • @malloc@lemmy.world
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    69 months ago

    Not very practical. How do you clean this thing? One drunk white girl night and that thing is headed to the landfill