Slinky Black Dress Doubles as Handy Cell Phone

[Logan Westbrook]

Slinky Black Dress Doubles as Handy Cell Phone

You can keep your gaudy gold pins and chest tapping, I'm wearing my communicator.

It's always a little exciting when actual science catches up - or overtakes - science-fiction. Case in point: The M-Dress, which combines a cellphone with a dress and makes the communicators on Star Trek: The Next Generation seem needlessly bulky. Ok, it's not going to make calls to your orbiting ship, but as long as you don't mind being limited to just planetary communication, you should be fine.

The M-Dress accepts a standard SIM-card underneath its label and has an antenna built into its hem. The wearer answers calls by lifting their hand to their ear, and ends them by dropping it again. The dress is limited to making calls to just a single number, but can receive calls from anywhere.

According to its creators, London-based CuteCircuit, it's constructed from soft circuits, and was designed to stop women missing important calls when they were in a situation where having a cell phone in easy reach was difficult.

While the dress looks pretty nice - and that's about as in-depth as I get when it comes to dresses - I'd love to see the same technology built into other garments. CuteCircuit plans to sell the M-Dress in London's Selfridges store later this year, and if it sells well, perhaps phone slacks won't be that fair behind.

Source: Geek [http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/this-little-black-dress-is-also-a-mobile-phone-20100824/]






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[JEBWrench]

Shoes man. SHOES. We need Phoneshoes.

 

[Disaster Button]

Shoes man. SHOES. We need Phoneshoes.

Nuts to that, we need phoneGLOVES.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I'm thoroughly liking this. The problem I'm seeing is the rain, but I guess an umbrella or a latex glove remedies that problem.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

FAB-ulous dahlink!

According to its creators, London-based CuteCircuit, it's constructed from soft circuits, and was designed to stop women missing important calls when they were in a situation where having a cell phone in easy reach was difficult.

So. Many. Jokes.

 

[DazZ.]

But...

You change clothes daily, you couldn't exactly use this often or you'll be known as "that girl who wears that dress".

 

[Jared]

Oh wow, future of phones? Would certainly look weird at first...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

But...

You change clothes daily, you couldn't exactly use this often or you'll be known as "that girl who wears that dress".

Pfft...you just need a pair of phone pants. Problem is you'd be dialing a number everytime you see an attractive woman.

ba-dum-tsch

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I might have to start cross-dressing...

Not really. But they need a male equivalent soon.

 

[The Cheezy One]

You can keep your gaudy gold pins and chest tapping, I'm wearing my communicator.

im sure youll look very sexy indeed in that Logan

According to its creators, London-based CuteCircuit, it's constructed from soft circuits, and was designed to stop women missing important calls when they were in a situation where having a cell phone in easy reach was difficult.

So. Many. Jokes.

be strong man, be strong

 

[unacomn]

They could make it to call any number, either with voice dialing, or with a keyboard. I once saw a jacked that had sown into it an electronic keyboard that played music.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

I demand my Phone Glove, which operates by using the Phone Gesture. You know. Little Finger as the Speaker, thumb as the listener.

Calumon: Jack, I don't think it's called that.

Jack: And buttons on the back of it! And... I don't know much about phones...

 

[Eleima]

You can keep your gaudy gold pins and chest tapping, I'm wearing my communicator.

im sure youll look very sexy indeed in that Logan

Okay that had totally snorting in laughter! XD

Back on topic: My first extremely geeky impulse was to say "oh sweet!!! I want one for Christmas!"
Then I settled down and started thinking about it. We still don't fully comprehend the impact the cell phone has on our brain: some studies show an increase in brain tumors with intensive cell phone use, others dispute it. The fact of the matter is that we really don't know yet. Still, in medicine you tend to err on the side of caution, and I'm not certain wearing a giant antenna would be extremely wise...

 

[Booze Zombie]

If you're going to make something a phone, why not a hat?

 

[Forgetitnow344]

Though interesting...

>The wearer answers calls by lifting their hand to their ear, and ends them by dropping it again.

What if your arm gets tired and you try to stretch it or something? This sounds like a neat idea, but I don't see it being very useful in many situations. Especially since you don't want to wear that dress every day.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Ah so now you can make the answering the phone gesture with your thumb and pinky (which so many ppl apparently find annoying) and be actually making/receiving a call! HAH! Technology catchs up to annoying pantomime!

 

[Jonluw]

I demand my Phone Glove, which operates by using the Phone Gesture. You know. Little Finger as the Speaker, thumb as the listener.

And a telescopic antenna needs to emerge from the thumb when doing said gesture. It will be activated with the phrase "Go go gadget phone".

And then the world will be a better place.

 

[Sougo]

Hmm.... I forgot that I CHANGED clothes this morning, and I seem to have left my damn SIM-card in my last dress.

 

[CoverYourHead]

I need a cell phone jacket. NOW. Seriously, it would be the best!