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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
News Dress lights up when wearer's phone rings
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Let me just go ahead and say that I wouldn't be caught dead in this dress. What was this British design student thinking?
Last week, an attention-grabbing dress was unveiled: It was a prototype dress that is designed to light up when the phone of the person wearing the dress rings. What the heck?
Georgie Davis [the design student] said the dress is designed to eventually be connected to the wearer's phone by Bluetooth wireless technology, so she can be alerted to a call even in noisiest of places."When you're in a pub or a bar, you can never, ever hear your phone," 20-year-old Davis told Reuters on Wednesday.
The right shoulder of the dress is embellished with translucent white scales that move and light up.
Apparently there's a thin line between style and technology.
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