There’s no reason it has to be spyware, but it will be. For the last 15 years it’s all that Silicon Valley has been creating.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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I'm so sick and tired of these "people" coming up with solution looking for a problem.
A cooling jacket is neat, but it's not a new idea. Seeing behind my back is also nice but... idk, can't you just strap LIDAR to a hard hat or something if you really need an alert? Don't factories have curved mirrors installed just for this?
The rest of the examples in the article seems useless to be honest. I don't even know why they have to include bulletproof clothes using kevlar like some novel concept.
I want a simple baseball cap or face mask that defeats facial recognition tech. Not shoes that tell me I walk wrong.
It's just clothes, those doesn't have to bd interactive.
Their argument: yeah! 1/4 Canadian wear wearable (mostly watch) so let’s put gait detection in their sole and range finder in their jacket so ~~we~~ they know when there’s someone near and if they walk ok
"Interactive clothes" sounds awesome to me.
a garment made of conductive fibres that track heart rate and breathing and feed that data into an AI algorithm that detects when a person is anxious and triggers a mechanism that causes the garment to tighten and give the feeling of a comforting hug.
Does not.
Dear consumer
We have detected you are currently running away from our law enforcement for scanning a pack of meat as bananas
We have constricted the garments in alignment of our policy to facilitate your capture
Please do not resist and thank you for shopping at Walmart
In addition to all the tracking data. That sounds kinda awful. A clothing item that suddenly starts to constrict me during a time when I'm supposed to be anxious.
Though yeah, when looking at it from a hopeful perspective it might have uses and benefits, but I'd still prefer basic old cheap dumb clothes.
I don't like interacting with people IRL, what makes you think I'll do it for my clothes?
I interact with my clothes enough. I handle them, put them on, wash and dry them - and occasionally I even work them over with an iron .
This is just another product for those sad schmucks that feel the need to measure and 'improve' every single metric in their life. Not sure how well that will mesh with hallucinating AI-crap, but that's their problem.
Finally, I can interact with my clothes.
...and your soon to be private medical insurance.