This seems like a harmless 2026 wish that will become everyone’s 2035 Black Mirror nightmare technology, where your clothing - your entire body - is now covered in a nonstop, blinking, endless advertisement space
I remember that episode. Not exactly what I’m talking about, and I think it’s different enough that it’s worthwhile exploring in a separate episode. Like Fifteen Million Merits.
It starts to prickle your skin, “watch this short 30 second ad to disable the itch for 30 minutes!”
Five minutes later, starts to prickle again.
Or:
You’re talking with your mother about such-and-such, suddenly your shirt starts blaring an obnoxious influencer screaming “HEY LOSER! DOES YOUR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?!?”
I remember reading about a group of researchers many years ago who had developed a subdermal LED screen that could be implanted and ran off of the oxygen in your blood stream via a tiny turbine or something.
I remember this. It was like 10 years ago or so. I had a friend of mine in design school who wanted to use it to make a subdermal PipBoy. I convinced him it wouldn’t be worth it because he’d probably be taking antibiotics and anti-rejection meds for the rest of his life. Also, the flight to Japan and the surgery wasn’t in his project budget. Our professor was also skeptical.
instead, he made an actual PipBoy out of a 3-D printed model and a disused Android phone. It’s was… functional. he made a revised version out of a raspberryPi and an LCD touchscreen. That worked much better. All programmed from scratch using nodeJS libraries. It was pretty impressive for what it was.
People have been paying companies to walk around advertising for them for 4 decades now. 80% of the population walks around with a pesant’s undershirt, that has the logo of a multinational corporation on it. Or one of some other, smaller business entity. They will have paid 3-6 hours of minimum wage work for this privilege.
I wish I could get this on an animated T-shirt
This seems like a harmless 2026 wish that will become everyone’s 2035 Black Mirror nightmare technology, where your clothing - your entire body - is now covered in a nonstop, blinking, endless advertisement space
Well that was the last episode of the 7th season of Black Mirror. It was called “Common People”
Not clothing but worse.
I remember that episode. Not exactly what I’m talking about, and I think it’s different enough that it’s worthwhile exploring in a separate episode. Like Fifteen Million Merits.
But you get the idea
It starts to prickle your skin, “watch this short 30 second ad to disable the itch for 30 minutes!”
Five minutes later, starts to prickle again.
Or:
You’re talking with your mother about such-and-such, suddenly your shirt starts blaring an obnoxious influencer screaming “HEY LOSER! DOES YOUR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?!?”
Shades of The Illustrated Man. Moving tattoos.
The Culture Series of book “Surface Detail” has a protagonist called Lededje Y’breq who has an infinitely detailed, moving tattoo. pretty dope scifi
This sounds somewhat familiar, like something I read in high school when I was very high, and only vaguely remember
I can thoroughly recommend revisiting it in these dark times for a bit of hopium.
It also murders unrepentant, genocidal, pieces of shit. Which, I feel, is even better.
Yes, yes it does. The elon-alike getting splutched was satisfying.
He was given a chance to face consequences before that happened…
I think I prefer how meatfucker interrogates war criminals, however.
Oooo, now that’s different.
If tattoos could move… but only a little… like, just a small, subtle motion, it could give them a whole new mystique…
I remember reading about a group of researchers many years ago who had developed a subdermal LED screen that could be implanted and ran off of the oxygen in your blood stream via a tiny turbine or something.
I remember this. It was like 10 years ago or so. I had a friend of mine in design school who wanted to use it to make a subdermal PipBoy. I convinced him it wouldn’t be worth it because he’d probably be taking antibiotics and anti-rejection meds for the rest of his life. Also, the flight to Japan and the surgery wasn’t in his project budget. Our professor was also skeptical.
instead, he made an actual PipBoy out of a 3-D printed model and a disused Android phone. It’s was… functional. he made a revised version out of a raspberryPi and an LCD touchscreen. That worked much better. All programmed from scratch using nodeJS libraries. It was pretty impressive for what it was.
for real. hopefully my ad-blocking glasses will work there too.
also - human adverts become the new low rent influencers, with people professionally walking around sticking adverts everywhere
People have been paying companies to walk around advertising for them for 4 decades now. 80% of the population walks around with a pesant’s undershirt, that has the logo of a multinational corporation on it. Or one of some other, smaller business entity. They will have paid 3-6 hours of minimum wage work for this privilege.
I think we just wrote the plot for the first episode of the next season of Black mirror
As long as the episode ends with everyone getting naked
People have already been doing that for decades…
We should be working on making animated t-shirts with science, not these dumb LLMs and datacenters. The future is now.
agreed.