Ping: Social Networking Garment
Yes, Ping is a social networking garment concept developed by Electricfoxy. It connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere so you can stay connected to your friends and groups of friends simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear.
“The concept prototype was built on the Arduino Lilypad platform and used a variety of sensors including flexible sensing and conductive threads that are flexible, sewable and washable. The wireless capability was built using the Lylipad Xbee.”
Wearable technology is pretty cool. Maybe a little TMI. What would you call the activity? “Styling” as oppose to “texting”? It could bring back vogue-ing. 🙂