this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
184 points (94.7% liked)

Technology

58150 readers
6226 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have to subscribe or else it just goes transparent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How can I cancel her subscription?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

CC.exe has stopped working.

Ok Report to Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ohhh wow 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I will wait until the gimp version is released

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

pretty impressive, especially these animations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks... Been seeing the article but didn't even want to bother with reading about it.

The video is pretty damn cool though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it gold or blue I can't tell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Dry clean only of course

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months 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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Or the dress that Rorschach made his mask from.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And why do you want this?

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it’s awesome and also yes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Hey look its the prototype for Metal Gear Solid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean... not really... it is auto-sequins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's as close as anyone has come so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can it turn into the face of Nic Cage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't know it sound more like a design for 10 years ago (maybe being kind).

load more comments
view more: next ›