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"Smart" Closet Helps Geeks Avoid Fashion Faux Pas

by Terrence O'Brien on November 20, 2007 at 09:42 AM

Smart Closet Helps Geeks Avoid Fashion Faux Pas

There are those among you who can barely dress themselves in the morning. Admit it. You're lost about what shoes to wear with an outfit, or have a tendency to wear the same exact thing on a regular cycle.

Well, we have some good news: Australian researchers are working on a Smart Closet system the will take all thought out of the process of matching your duds.

Here's how it works: When hung, clothes embedded with "electronic panels" talk to electronic hangers, which then communicate with the closet computer (it's a computer trapped inside the body of a closet!). The computer will track what you've worn and warn you if you're about to meet a person for the second time in the same clothes, or suggest what tie matches your shirt.

The smart aspects of the clothes don't end at the computerized closet, either. Your duds will also monitor vital signs, store data, and flash an LED when you get a cell phone call... which sounds like it would be terribly distracting during a business meeting.

As a tech demonstration, the Smart Closet is impressive, if impractical, but we're sure some of these technologies will find their place in our everyday lives soon enough.


From Business Edge (via Engadget)


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Tags: fashion, Future Tech, FutureTech, rfid, smart closet, smart clothes, SmartCloset, SmartClothes, Weird

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