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3D Printed Dress Begins Exposing Skin as Wearer Shares on Social Media

3D-Printed Dress Begins Exposing Skin as Wearer Shares on Social Media

By Indo Asian News Service | Updated: 12 June 2014 17:33 IST

You have to be careful before liking a picture on Facebook or sending a tweet while you are wearing this dress. Scientists at New York University have designed a dress that gradually turns transparent as the wearer's online activity increases.

Which means that at the end of the day you might end up exposing your whole body - if you are an avid social media user.

"x.pose is a wearable data-driven sculpture that exposes a person's skin as a real-time reflection of the data that the wearer is producing," the designers behind the project, Pedro Oliveira and Xuedi Chen from New York University, were quoted as saying.

The dress is made of a 3D mesh created from location data of the user's whereabouts, gleaned from the wearer's phone. The reactive displays that change in opacity to reveal the wearer's skin are controlled by a small computer built into the back of the dress.

Chen adds, "There currently exists a paradox in our internet culture. As a generation, we are simultaneously obsessed with publicity and privacy. While we publish and post details about our lives online, at the same time we demand the most advanced privacy protection software. An unprecedented degree of potential exposure comes with the current mode of existence... I have ceded control of my data emissions and Based on my activity logs, Google clearly knows where I am, where I've been and possibly even where I'm going. Yet when I wanted a log of my location history, I had to go through numerous steps to 'enable' tracking..."

The computer constantly monitors the user's online activity. Depending on the volume of posts and other activity, panels on the dress can either flicker or become completely transparent, Daily Mail reported.

"As more data is produced and collected from the wearer, the more naked he/she will become," the developers added.

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