A joint venture between design teams at MIT’s Tangible Media Group and the Fluid Interface Group have incorporated the social network into a garment which signals to other wearers your interests, associations and even if people are compatible organ donors.
The group of MIT students behind the project – Viirj Kan, Katsuya Fujii, Judith Amores, and Chang Long Zhu Jin – wanted to look at ways of seeing how social media worked outside the confines of the computer screen.
“We wanted to examine more tangible ways of representing ourselves in social media,” Kan told CNN.
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“Perhaps if you need to know other vegetarians — or those with a vegetarian lifestyle — so it helps to know if I was at a burger place who around me is a vegetarian,” Kan said.
While the shirt is still in the research and development phase, the group says that commercial sponsors have a growing interest in the product.
“We’re testing its capabilities — it’s hard to say what its limits are,” she said.
