Trying to curtail your use of social media? We’ve found a solution — a wearable one.
As part of their Interactive Telecommunications thesis, two NYU students have made a dress called “x.pose” that becomes transparent the more online data one produces. According to Jezebel, x.pose is made of 3D mesh and a layer of 20 hand-cut, reactive displays.
As its wearer uses Twitter, Facebook and Google, the geometric shapes slowly turn opaque.
“x.pose is an exploration and commentary on the current Internet culture of our generation and the relationship we share with our data,” the designers Xuedi Chen and Pedro G.C. Oliveira, explain on their website. “Individuals carrying smartphones and connecting with services such as Google or Facebook have agreed, often without conscious consideration, to policies that grant these service providers explicit rights to harvest and utilize personal data on a massive scale.”
They point out that using this information, Google, for example, can figure out “where its users are, have been, and even where they’re going.”
At the end of a video about x.pose, the tagline, “In the digital realm, we are naked all the time” flashes onto the screen.
We’d love to nominate a couple of celebrities to rock this sartorial political statement, like Miley Cyrus or Lady Gaga. However, it’s definitely not for the faint-of-heart.
What do you think, collegiettes — do we cede too much personal information when we use modern technology? And would you ever wear x.pose?