The Government is funding over $20 million for the development of Surveillance Clothing called SMARTePANTS

https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs/smart-epants

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mwalimu@baraza.africa · 15 pts · 2y

Which government? Don’t assume the US to be THE universal government. 😀

BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one · 8 pts · 2y

alright sir, step through the machine again

Beeeep

Alright sir... the underwear.

FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Grandma: "I've fallen and I can't get up!" SMARTePANTS: "Your kids should have gotten you a life alert necklace button thingy. I'm just here to observe. They wasted their 19.95 on the wrong thing."

RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ugh what the fuck.

How are these going to interface with my D-Pants? Are they even compatible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwjogp4wIo

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Probably not, they want to sell you their version.

ApeNo1@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Now I'm curious, we have a lot of classified research that people don't know about. Can I hide a surveillance camera a dogs fart?

diseasedolm@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The technology they are proposing to develop to do this sounds pretty sick tho:

""" weavable conductive polymer “wires”, energy harvesters powered by the body, ultra-low power printable computers on cloth, microphones that behave like threads, and “scrunchable” batteries that can function after many deformations. """

archengel@nichenerdery.duckdns.org · 3 pts · 2y

However they don't seem to have any of that tech yet:

"In order to transfer this research into AST products, revolutionary new materials and manufacturing techniques are needed to develop complete and integrated systems containing mechanically deformable and durable: 1) power sources, 2) sensors, 3) computation and data storage, and 4) electrically conductive system component “wires” and interconnects."