Social Vibration: Clothes That Connect Online Communities In Physical Space
Designer Dana Gordon has conceived a garment she calls Social Vibration, a jacket fitted with RFID and a small vibration motor. When members of an online community or social network are in the same physical space (within 10 meters of each other), the sensor-enabled hoodies trigger a vibration alerting each user to the other member’s presence.
[via Rhizome]
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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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| TOPICS: | Electronics & Gadgets, Fashion, Web & Technology |
| TAGS: | RFID, sensors, social navigation |
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