Custom Animation and Tweets on Your Tee? It’s All Possible with tshirtOS

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Now this is just plain awesome. It used to be that shirts are just for, well, wearing. But CuteCircuit, in collaboration with Ballantine’s, is setting out to change that with the tshirtOS. Think of it as a shirt with its very own operating system that you can program, tweak, and configure so you can make it do whatever it is you want it to do.

Want to share your thoughts with the world? Then hook it up with your Twitter account and have it display your latest tweets, right on your chest. Missing your kids who’re off to summer camp? Then hook the shirt up to display your family pictures and your favorite portraits of the kids. The possibilities are literally endless with the tshirtOS.

Check out how the technology behind the shirt works by watching the video after the jump.

Interested in getting a tshirtOS for yourself? Head on over to tshirtOS.com to find out how you can get one.

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TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton (video)

TshirtOS is webconnected, programmable, 100 percent cotton

An LED display, camera, microphone, speaker and accelerometer all packaged into a t-shirt and controlled via your smartphone? That's the concept behind tshirtOS, a wearable platform for "self-expression" that currently only exists as a prototype. It can show off tweets, play music videos, capture belly-height photos and send them off to Instagram, and pretty much do anything except play percussion. CuteCircuit, which came up with the idea in cahoots (inexplicably) with Ballantine's whisky, says it's about to conduct product tests and will mass produce the smart-shirts if enough folks register interest. There's no Kickstarter page, definite specs or pricing for any of this, but based on CuteCircuit's history and the video after the break we're inclined to believe TshirtOS is more than just viral marketing stunt for the sake of a dram -- click onwards and judge for yourself.

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