How Animatronic Clothes Work 97
bethr writes "TechnologyReview.com has an article about the inner-workings of the animatronic clothes featured at a recent Paris runway show. The dresses use computerized motors and monofilament wires to radically transform from one style to another. From the article: 'Zippers closed, cloth gathered, and hemlines rose — all without human assistance.' You can see the finished product in the second half of a video of the show."
wardrobe malfunction? (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like an opportunity (Score:2, Funny)
Animatronic models? (Score:5, Funny)
That's a relief. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's a relief. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's a relief. (Score:5, Funny)
Now you just have to worry about your trousers slicing your dick off if you DID leave it open...
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:5, Funny)
*sniff**sniff*
Do you smell smoke?
Re:The future of clothing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:2, Funny)
The dress stays on?
KFG
Re:The future of clothing? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, as long as you stay away from Wal-Mart that should work out ok.
KFG
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:4, Funny)
Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!
- RG>
BTW... (Score:1, Funny)
In soviet Russia (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tubes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Freaking Nerds (Score:5, Funny)
As you move through life, you'll discover that tits are fairly commonplace. Every woman has two. The geeks that actually have a wife/female cohabitator (not to mention those that are women) can see a pair every day. Clothing that adjusts itself is rather more unusual.
It is fortunate for the sake of your blood pressure that you evidently didn't continue to the end, when a model's wrap disappears entirely into her hat.
Re:Style/Fashion... (Score:2, Funny)
Well, okay, some of them could be renamed "Designer X wanted to see Model Y's boobs so he 'designed' a dress lacking any substance above the waist" shows.
I doubt it. Designer X is probably gay.
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Freaking Nerds (Score:4, Funny)
Don't forget, most
Oh, you mean FEMALE tits....ermh, sorry...nevermind.
Or is this the time for Natalie Portman, naked, covered in grits- and a remote control?
I'm so confused!
Frog-Shirt (Score:4, Funny)
There was this one particular cartoon where a boy was trying to catch a green frog, the boy leaped on top of this frog and somehow the frog got stuck to his white shirt. For some reason this frog was permanently attached to his shirt? Turns out this frog-shirt was very intelligent and bizarrely enough could speak...over time they became buddies. Of course being good friends the boy would wear his frog-shirt everywhere he went.
Some of their adventures envoled normal boyhood adversity like dealing with the bully at school or trying to convince the teachers that the frog-shirt is not helping him cheat on exams and so on.
In one funny episode...because of jealousy the boy and the frog-shirt get into a major aurgument over a girl they have a crush on. They get into a physical brawl to the point where the boy cast off the frog-shirt and they go their separate ways. The boy and the frog-shirt start to compete in trying to win the affections of this girl. One would give the girl flowers, so the other would try to out do him by getting her a box of chocolates or jewelry. This gift giving would soon start to escalate. They both go out to get jobs to earn money to keep up with this gift giving frenzy, all the while their friendship was going sour.
End the end they both come to the realization that the girl was just using both of them for monetary gain. They both snub the girl and thus preserve their friendship.
I think this Cartoon was a warning, a foretelling of the future. Animatronic Clothes may try to still your girlfriends. Please lets band together to prevent this! Food for thought.
Animatronic bra (Score:4, Funny)
he obviously copied the idea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:wardrobe malfunction? (Score:3, Funny)
Godless Europeans! (Score:1, Funny)
Note to humor impaired: Ah, why bother. Nevermind.
Oblig. (Score:3, Funny)
Supermodel dates her engineer (Score:2, Funny)