Try out the tshirtOS with a Wearable Display [Video]

3 Aug 2012 / By sanjo / In Social


How about trying out a wearable electronic t-shirt with an integrated display and camera? This is the creation of whiskey brand Ballantine’s and clothes company CuteCircuit. The tshirtOS is a programmable, washable shirt with a built-in screen for displaying messages.

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It shows Twitter updates, Facebook wall posts, or Instagram pictures and has the ability to snap pictures itself and push them directly to your photo stream.

The tshirtOS is a wearable, shareable, programmable and 100% cotton t-shirt. The shirt itself has a microprocessor, which wirelessly connects to an iOS app which can then call on the internet to conduit information to and from your clothes.

It is provided with an audio playback via a headphone jack, and the company claims that the camera used in tshirtOS is the smallest in the world. In fact, it measures 2.5 x 2.9 x 2.5 mm and comes from Omnivision, though only captures at 32 x 32 resolution.

The chest display itself only runs at 32 x 32, consisting of 1,024 ultra thin RGB LEDs.

There’s an ultra-slim PCB with Bluetooth, USB, an accelerometer and a pair of headphone sockets, while the processor hasn’t actually been decided upon.

The tshirtOS could even stand a chance of being produced, though right now it’s a very expensive prototype. Reports are saying that it will be monitoring the interest before making a decision about a production version.

 

 

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