The joint design team of Tangible Media Group and Fluid Interface Group from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a new social networking garment that helps the wearer to identify people with common interests and likes.
The latest wearable technology garment, a social T-shirt, not only helps in detecting people who share similar interests in the same room but also alerts the wearer when those people are present within proximity of about 12 feet of each other through its collars.
According to a media release from the Fluid Interface Group, the shirt, developed by a team of MIT students Viirj Kan, Katsuya Fujii, Judith Amores and Chang Long Zhu Jin, features a thermo-chromatic ink pattern embedded with an underlying thin circuit membrane that can be paired with a smartphone via bluetooth.