The social network that you can wear
Normally, when you interact with someone, in order to learn about someone, one has to interpret someone's body language or the words they say. Now this action of interpretation can be performed by simply just reading a shirt. It seems as though design teams at MIT's Tangible Media Group and the Fluid Interface Group have worked together to create a garment that incorporates social networking into it and tells other wearers your interests, associations and even if people are compatible organ donors. The group of MIT students behind the project - Viirj Kan, Katsuya Fujii, Judith Amores, and Chang Long Zhu Jin - wanted to look at ways of seeing how social media worked outside the confines of the computer screen. Sporting a chic alphabet design on the front, the T-shirt's pattern is printed in thermo-chromatic ink with a thin circuit membrane under the weave.The T-shirt uses Bluetooth to pair with your phone and all your critical data. The shirt will "tap" the wearer to indicate that there is another shirt wearer nearby. However, this can only be done up to 12 feet. After the T-shirt has alerted you to the fact there's another wearer in the room, capacitive sensors in the shirt read either a handshake, touch or high five before the T-shirt starts transmitting your data and you begin wearing your heart on your sleeve. Unfortunately, the shirt is still in prototype and it is unknown when it will be coming out.
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