Thursday, March 13th, 2008...11:48 pm - Catherine Gleeson
wearable social networks
Now you can wear your social network (or your heart) on your sleeve - literally. This is what you do:
1. Buy a set of threads from the Get Wickd clothing label
2. Download the special Get Wickd software onto your mobile
3. Go outside and start looking for other people wearing Get Wickd bar-coded clothes
4. Take a snap with your mobile
5. Your phone will connect you with the personal page of that person - from MySpace to YouTube
Apparently not new - but made “newer” with the advent of a camera on your phone. A similar idea, the UrbanSeeder project, was developed a couple of years ago by Maya Lotan for her thesis project at the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea. Back in the late 90’s, apparently, there was an even earlier version of social-widget-fashion in the form of skim.com, which Salon Magazine described at the time as “stalker chic” and asked “Is skim.com dressing up the antisocial pervert or outfitting the terminally hip?”. Good question.
via: twenty1f and nextnature
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