Ping Clothing Tracks You, Automatically Updates Facebook

By John Farrier in Blogs & Internet, Fashion on Apr 17, 2010 at 5:37 pm

Fashion designer Jennifer Darmour’s new line is called Ping. It contains sensors that discern what you’re doing based upon your body movements and automatically updates your Facebook profile accordingly:

Lift up a hood, tie a bow, zip, button, and simply move, bend and swing to ping your friends naturally and automatically. No phone, no laptop, no hardware. Simply go about your day, look good and stay connected. [...]

The garment investigates ways to connect to larger software systems that can add more functionality and longevity to the experience while offering a new platform for communication and expression.

What could possibly go wrong?

Link via DVICE | Photo: Electric Foxy

Tags: Facebook, Jennifer Darmour

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W
Apr 17th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
There must be an ‘off’ switch in case you need a quick minute to rub one out. Not everyone would want masturbation updates automatically updated to their facebook pages.
Amander
Apr 17th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
This would make for some fairly horrible pants updates: scratches butt, adjusts balls, etc. Not a great idea.
pam
Apr 17th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
wow i have so little desire to know when my friends are shifting around in their clothing…
abdulhamid
Apr 18th, 2010 at 1:08 am
It will not be long until the government finds a way to apply this technology. Such a garment will be mandatory.

So it will not just be in Soviet Russia that your shirt wears you.
Ranjit
Apr 18th, 2010 at 1:27 am
“Simply go about your day, look good and stay connected.”

Isn’t it just great how “stay connected” means: broascasting your life without giving a damn about the lives of your friends?

It’s the perfect acessory for people who see themselves as the “stars” of their network. For all those with a less pathological tendency in relationships, a gadget that lets you recieve updates as well would be nice.

(But you could always use a handy for that… somehow killing the concept of “No phone … etc.”)
Robin
Apr 18th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Another fashion designer who thinks he’s an “artist”. Ugh.
ted
Apr 18th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Strap one of those on the Ross Sisters and watch it go nuts.
Brett
Apr 18th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
And we welcome Big Brother with open arms
Knute Dunrvnyet
Apr 18th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
vernor vinge
Foreigner1
Apr 19th, 2010 at 2:56 am
If you ride a car or motorbike- they follow you by your numberplates.
If you use cash-dispensers and credit-card, they know where you spend how much of your cash on what items.
If you pay bills, it is recorded.
If you use a mobile phone, they know from where, how long and with whom you called.
If you go to the docter, it is registered what kind of deseases and injuries you have.
If you go on the internet, they know exactly what interests you have and where you visit.

It takes only one guy somewhere to connect all the dots and your whole life is as clear and visible as our sun in the sky on a clear day.

So sure give us these clothes- they only will place the dots closer together…

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