Lifeblog: BYOB @ MIT
09/14/2006
Build Your Own Bag is an older fashion project from the MIT Media Lab.
What is a conversation like between a handbag and a scarf? How can you mediate their conversation and when is your skirt allowed in on the discussion? As a woman is about to leave her house, her handbag may solicit the weather forecast from the humidity sensor on its fellow smart curtain. It might deliver the news of an impending downpour by saying "I think it might rain. Go get your umbrella." And after deliberating with her coat pocket, the handbag may use ambient light to caution the user if she's forgotten her cell phone.
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nanda/design/electronics/byob/byob.html