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

  • @Someguy89
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    1141 year ago

    I just want healthcare and a planet that’s not on fire.

    • @drislands
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      351 year ago

      To be fair, Adobe wasn’t going to fix either of those problems.

    • @anlumo
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      81 year ago

      For that, people would need to stop voting for neoliberals first.

      • @davidgro
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        31 year 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
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          41 year 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).

  • @[email protected]
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    641 year ago

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

    • @Cyclist
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      501 year ago

      And how much is the annual subscription?

      • @malloc
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        171 year ago

        $69.99/month. $49.99 for every design change.

        $999.99 for a 2 year warranty. Only Adobe Technicians can service it.

      • JackGreenEarth
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        -71 year ago

        Why does this need to be subscription based? In what way does clothing that changes color or pattern or whatnot need to be connected to Adobe’s severs?

        • @errer
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          631 year ago

          Because it’s Adobe and fuck you, that’s why.

        • @TurboDiesel
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          1 year ago

          It doesn’t. Nor do Word, Photoshop, or heated seats but that didn’t stop Microsoft, Adobe, or BMW. Guaranteed they’ll provide some kind of subscription model for it.

    • edric
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      241 year ago

      When you miss a payment in your subscription, it will randomly turn transparent while you’re out and about.

      • @malloc
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        31 year ago

        👀👀👀👀

  • @Chickenstalker
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    461 year ago

    > Adobe

    The clothing will go transparent unless you pay a monthly fee.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      151 year ago

      The clothing will have 3rd party ads unless you pay a monthly fee.

    • @Asudox
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      11 year ago

      Just what I need.

  • alphacyberranger
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    441 year ago

    So if your subscription expires, will it go fully transparent?

  • @Alexstarfire
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    261 year ago

    While cool, what a waste of everything.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Could we ban that kinda shit for climate change until the planet’s unfucked please

    (i.e. probably never)

    • @devfuuu
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      71 year ago

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

  • @alienanimals
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    101 year ago

    Adobe’s CEO Shantanyu is a greedy bastard.

    • alphacyberranger
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      -161 year 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)

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        That has absolutely 0% to do with their nationality and 100% to do with with them being general cunts.

  • @just_another_person
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    81 year 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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      61 year ago

      They probably have their arm behind their back for a reason

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year 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.

      • @just_another_person
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        01 year ago

        Did you watch the video? She said she sewed each piece together herself. It’s sewn, not one rigid piece of anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    Just in time for Halloween. Let’s all get this dress, make Rorschach masks and terrorize CEOs.

  • @malloc
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    41 year ago

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