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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

id be more excited for this if it wasnt adobe.. fuck adobe

[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get the dress but have to subscribe to Dress Cloud for $50/mo and if you decide to discontinue it the dress randomly turns into a 90s era WB shirt and locks itself that way until you re-up

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

If you subscribe for a whole year it only costs 599$ !

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adobe: Pay $1699 yearly subscription or it will go transparent.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Me, hacking Adobe and cancelling all subscriptions during the oscars: "You're welcome"

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a cute dress. If I pirate it, will I get a Creative Cloud warning pop up when it dials home?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Just update your host file so it can't connect to adobe.com

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago

"Hurry up, we're gonna be late for our reservation."

"Hold on, my dress has to install an update!"

[–] reflex@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

They gonna release an ad-supported version to turn you into a walking billboard?

[–] ansis@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it gold or blue I can't tell

[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This article desperately needs video.

Here's the official video from Adobe. Bump to 45s into the vid to see the dress in action:

https://youtu.be/EvGquKkSFMM?si=_yo33O7N6VhFxYQO

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly lol what kind of absurd article doesn't include the video

[–] QHC@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That video is included in the article, it's just at the very bottom for some reason.

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[–] harry315@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

pretty impressive, especially these animations.

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you know you are talking to an engineer when they say

Non-emissive material with reflective light-diffuser modules

instead of "mirrors"

[–] huginn@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe most mirrors can't turn their reflectivity on and off based on an electric current.

I could be totally wrong about mirrors though

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

You just haven't turned the current high enough.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Still no pockets though.

[–] Gregorech@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's like the dress Rorschach made his mask from in Watchmen.

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[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you can totally just throw it in the washing machine, right?

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Dry clean only of course

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

OMG she's wearing the same dress she wore last week! She just changed the design!

[–] Dope@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For some reason I’m not super impressed with this. Looks too much like you’re wearing e-ink panels. Call me when these are fully functioning OLEDs that kinetically charge when you walk.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Each one of those scales operates as an independent display, and coordinating them is quite a challenge. I'd be interested in knowing what is driving them, because it's surely not very portable.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Powerbank backpack lol I guess you could go pretty small with hardware in these ARM days comming

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EInk and monochrome LCD Type Displays need very low power, because you only need a tiny bit to switch them from one side to the other, but none to keep it black or white.

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[–] Dope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m sure orchestrating this isn’t super easy (however, if you treat every “display” as a “pixel”, Idk how this coding is different than a woman wearing a dress made of addressable LEDs— on the surface it doesn’t seem super complicated engineering), but it appears as unimpressive.

[–] nothing@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And why do you want this?

Or was this a "We can build it so we did"?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s awesome and also yes.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I miss when everyone wasn't super pessimistic about absolutely everything and it was ok to do things for these reasons

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[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the book The Diamond Age, where the clothes used nanotech to transform and become waterproof etc.

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Hey look its the prototype for Metal Gear Solid.

[–] Melt@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A changeable dress won't matter, women will buy it, wear it to ONE event and then never wear it again

[–] 5gruel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Women be shoppin - Abraham Lincoln

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