Ladies, the future is here, and the future doesn’t require pockets. Coming this fall via CuteCircuit: a slinky black cocktail dress that doubles as a cellphone.
The brainchild of fashion designer Francesca Rosella, and anthropologist Ryan Genz, the M-Dress is the basic “little black dress” that all women have hanging in the closet. It’s stylish, soft to wear, and tech savvy.
The dress has unique gesture recognition software to handle phone calls. You answer by lifting your hand as if you are holding a phone to your ear. The call disconnects when you lower the hand. What’s more natural than holding your hand to your ear to talk on the phone?
CuteCircuit’s Web site doesn’t exactly say, but I wonder how you know someone is calling? I have visions of the dress ringing in the middle of a fancy cocktail party. Perhaps it just contracts, squeezing the wearer in a hug, which is one way to really highlight those curves.
There is a small slot underneath the dress label for the SIM-card. Once in, all calls to your cellphone get routed to the dress.
The hem of the dress discreetly hides the antenna. There is no keypad or screen, so there’s no way to see who is calling. A single phone number is programmed to the dress for outgoing calls.
M-Dress will be part of CuteCircuit’s first commercial line launching at London’s Selfridges department store this October.
Via The Star
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