It's finally here, no more social awkwardness due to unzipped flaps, it's time to pair your jeans with your smartphone. Although the whole boom was started by smart watches, followed by Ray-Ban glasses or the Oura Ring, for example, smart clothes are also slowly gaining more and more fans. Now we have a prototype of smart pants that will let you know on your phone whenever your zipper is out of place.
Developer Guy Dupont revealed his on Twitter project after one of his friends suggested he make pants that would let a person know whenever their zipper is undone via a notification on their phone. In Dupont's test, he unbuttons his pants and waits a few seconds. Once the sensor detects that the lid is open, it sends a notification to the user via a service it calls WiFly.
If you know me, you know one of my favorite things to do is speedrun product ideas from my friends. One requested "Pants that detect when your fly is down for too long and send you a notification". Currently seeking investors. pic.twitter.com/Mz3IDnCLaG
— Guy Dupont (@gvy_dvpont) May 23, 2023
To make everything work, the inventor attached a Hall probe to the zipper, to which he glued a magnet, using safety pins and glue. Wires then lead into his pocket, thanks to which the notification process starts after a few seconds. The author follows the video in which he shows how the smart pants work with a list of the materials used and the steps he took to achieve the desired result.
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Despite how useful this feature can be, it rightfully raises some concerns for parties involved in the laundry process. Because of the wires, circuits and glue involved, putting pants in the washing machine doesn't seem like a very good idea. The question is also how much it would affect the battery life since the device has to stay connected to the phone all day.
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As already said, these smart pants are a prototype and no investor has yet taken them on, considering the growing popularity of various smart solutions, however, it is not impossible that we could meet something similar one day at one of the manufacturers of modern clothing. Personally, I am of the opinion that in the future we will witness a significant emergence of devices with customizable use, small smart sensors whose purpose is chosen by the user himself, and thus we can eventually expect much more bizarre applications of smart technologies.
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