light emmiting shirts

YouTube - Light-emitting shirts! next will be lasers LOL!!!!!!!!!

These may be slightly different. I saw them a long time ago though.

ThinkGeek :: T-Qualizer Shirt

Cool idea though.

I have one of those T-Qualizer shirts, they're pretty cool. My friend's brother has one that lights up according to signal strength in the presence of a of a wireless network.

Yeah, this technology's been around awhile. They sell these shirts in the mall by me.

my friend has a shirt with a guitar printed on it, you strum the guitar with a special pick and it plays music XD

will

The thinkgeek ones are FLP already in shape, that glow when excited from a high frequency elevator.

The ones from Philips, if the video is not a fake or "worked-up", seems using a different structural approach, and, maybe, a different technology .....

Hell, those are the gender of things that make my fingertips itchy from the will to take one and dismantle for understand how it work :eg:

I agree... I have one of those T-Qualizer T-Shirts...

It has a flexible plastic illuminating sheet connected to a
control box stuck to the T-Shirt fabric...
I have removed the electronics of mine..

It is not at all similar to the supple illuminating Philips fabric...IMO


Jerry

zxn474l said:

next will be lasers LOL!!!!!!!!!

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I believe Bono have.

FireMyLaser said:

I believe Bono have.

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he did Bono's Laser Jacket Lights up the Stage - Fashioning Technology

@ Lasersbee: I think you are correct. I didn't watch the video before posting my first comment. Although my comment that it's been around for awhile isn't a lie seeing that the video is dated 2006 :na:

Yeah, the ones that are commonly available use an electroluminescent panel that is fixed to the shirt, and driven by a small box containing the batteries and inverter for the EL

Being sincere, there are a pair of things that let me perplexed, in that video .....

First, no clear images, all is "blurred" or out of focus (it can also due to the bad quality, about the low res, but not about all the "unfocusing" parts.

Second, i examined the video, and i see the flickering (that can be due to the refersh circuitsù), but don't see the pixels ..... mean, also when the images are at focus, i can't see the pixels divisions at the borders of the images (can be due to the fact that the real light source is under the fabric, anyway)

Third, when the person pass a hand on the t-shirt (frame time 0:33 0:34), there is a moment, very quick, in which you see like a shadow, same as when you place a hand between a projector and a screen, also if on the hand there's no light ..... wondering what is causing it, cause the figure is like "cutted out" .....



Also the images on the sofa, it look like a projection, and also there, always off focus ..... just wondering .....

See, i'm NOT saying that is impossible (in fact, with EL fibers, printed OLED and PLED and conductive fabrics, actually IS possible, at least theorically) ..... i'm saying only that i will be glad to have one of them under my claws for a very extensive analysis :eg:

EDIT: and, do you know what they resemble to me, at least the t-shirts ? ..... they resemble me a flexible OLED screen with the luminosity at the maximum, seen through a light fabric cotton t-shirt ..... or i'm the only one that have this impression ? :eg:

ET costume idea!!

HIMNL9 said:

also there, always off focus ..... just wondering .....

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Have you tried pointing a laser at the snow? Even the dot of a laser isn't in focus on a white diffusing material such as fabric. Since it's coming from within the fabric, the fabric itself tends to bounce the light around a bit. This has the effect of blurring the image and subsequently smoothing the edges of the pixels.

I believe the ones at thinkgeek and others have a panel outside the shirt. That makes the image sharper, but it makes the fabric hard and stiff at that spot.

I can't explain the image-break you posted, but if it were from a projection, the image should be easily seen on the hand.

That video has been around for over two years now and I haven't seen anything new about that technology.

I'm much more interested in how they did this: YouTube - Philips Daylight Concept Active Glass Simplicity Event 07

The borders are just opaline plastic with RGB leds inside and pc controlled ..... the glass panels, i guess it's possible do something similar using LCD color screens in place of the glass panels (after all, you can turn an LCD panel from black to transparent to colored transparent and draw on it figures, in a normal screen where the light source is a FL lamp, so why not with a daylight backlight ?

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The borders are just opaline plastic with RGB leds inside and pc controlled ..... the glass panels, i guess it's possible do something similar using LCD color screens in place of the glass panels (after all, you can turn an LCD panel from black to transparent to colored transparent and draw on it figures, in a normal screen where the light source is a FL lamp, so why not with a daylight backlight ?

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I've had the LCD window idea for a long time. Shades would become obsolete, you could darken your windows whenever.

will