Designer Ivan Poupyrev wants to integrate technology into everyday objects to make them more useful and fun — like a jacket you can use to answer phone calls or a houseplant you can play like a keyboard. In a talk and tech demo, he lays out his vision for a physical world that's more deeply connected to the internet and shows how, with a little collaboration, we can get there. Unveiled in this talk: Poupyrev announces that his newest device, Jacquard, is now publicly available for all designers to use.
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*Use it, before it uses you.*
Just like kill or be killed, right.. ft, don’t believe the hype
How do the fabrics react to water though?
Ayo Pacheco
Came to the comment section to see if anyone else considered that.
From what I saw in the slides, I guess they are making each single yarn as a wire wrapped with waterproof materials and normal yarn, so the “wire” garments still work fine after raining/washing
+Ken K that’s not the problem. The problem is water will act the same as skin in terms of conductivity. So in other words if you get water on your sleeve it’ll start jumping back and fourth between inputs etc..
The fabric is wash resistant. Checkup on project jacquard from Google ATAP. They explained just how difficult it is to develop a fabric that is wash resistant but they solve it after all.
Sobra already knew all of this…
Bravo, wow great job sir, I can feel the impact of the technology you have made, I want to learn more about how that gadget works, I actually have a lot of doubts but you should know that in the end you just impressed me.
So I can buy cheaper clothes, if I sign a licence agreement for my product and give away my personal information?
Think about it buddy)
It is pretty cool though, as a purely ergonomic concept.
Please add Japanese translation too
Now your farts can effect your bank account .
Won’t effect YOUR bank account, just theirs! Understand the real message.
Gas chromatography will affect your credit score. The microbiome never lies.
The more computers you have around you, the more likely you’re being tracked on for targetted advertising. Big tech will dominate in the IoT space if it were ever to happen, and they are incentivised to track you. Don’t buy into this, corporate surveillance is the inevitable path this leads to. It’s bad enough now (your phone is likely tracking you now), buying into this idea is inviting big tech firms into your home for their benefit. Privacy has worth, don’t give it away for free.
That’s why capitalism has become an obsolete system.
+Romanski Well, capitalism has mutated into something completely different. I’m not sure its obsolete, its incredibly successful, worryingly so.
The term “surveillance capitalism” has been floating around a bit lately, its a fairly apt name for what things have become.
With capitalism tho, I’m just not sure of another system that doesn’t involve a significant reduction of wealth and well being for a significant portion of humanity. At some point, tho, we need to trade “wealth and well being” for a better balanced system that’s not so harsh in exploiting the environment and ourselves.
I think we’re sorta screwed, but lets see what happens.
We need movements that ensure that people’s data, belongs to them. Those companies that are tracking you are effectively stealing from you.
Don’t worry. . .In the end, Mother Nature will rip man’s technological arrogance into tattered Shreds !!!!
Thats true, but imagine the good side of this. Now tech can know if you need a taxi, and were the closest steak house is because you’ve been craving it for a long time.
and there it is…. the monopoly play
that’s good
Waiting the day my vibrator will try to kill me.
Where can I invest all my money?
collaborate with someone in the augmented reality business to make your sensors even more interactive
I didn’t mean to call you, honey. I was only scratching my butt!
Шутка про look great понравилась всему залу ))))
and now lets talk about the carbon footprint, and increase of toxic garbage in landfills when the clothing is trashed, of this tech.
Finally a Ted talk that isn’t about diversity or racism. Great ideas
+Kevin Bacon Did Nothing Wrong what in the heck are you talking about.
Whatsup evrybody, welkomback to my laboratory.
Today we will review some gadjekcs.
We are creating a nightmare there will be no escape from
This technology is amazing. But before it’ll become a usual thing in our lives we have to solve the one significant problem – how to make people owners of their lives? Why should I buy a phone which not becomes my own property – it still transmits a lot of my information to google and other tech giants. I want to control things I buy – that’s how it should to be. Someone will say – what about terrorism? I don’t know. And while there is no solution such kind of technologies remains dangerous.