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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

id be more excited for this if it wasnt adobe.. fuck adobe

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get the dress but have to subscribe to Dress Cloud for $50/mo and if you decide to discontinue it the dress randomly turns into a 90s era WB shirt and locks itself that way until you re-up

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

If you subscribe for a whole year it only costs 599$ !

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adobe: Pay $1699 yearly subscription or it will go transparent.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Me, hacking Adobe and cancelling all subscriptions during the oscars: "You're welcome"

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s a cute dress. If I pirate it, will I get a Creative Cloud warning pop up when it dials home?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to subscribe or else it just goes transparent.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can I cancel her subscription?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

CC.exe has stopped working.

Ok Report to Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Just update your host file so it can't connect to adobe.com

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

"Hurry up, we're gonna be late for our reservation."

"Hold on, my dress has to install an update!"

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will wait until the gimp version is released

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

They gonna release an ad-supported version to turn you into a walking billboard?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it gold or blue I can't tell

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This article desperately needs video.

Here's the official video from Adobe. Bump to 45s into the vid to see the dress in action:

https://youtu.be/EvGquKkSFMM?si=_yo33O7N6VhFxYQO

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly lol what kind of absurd article doesn't include the video

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That video is included in the article, it's just at the very bottom for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/EvGquKkSFMM?si=_yo33O7N6VhFxYQO

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you know you are talking to an engineer when they say

Non-emissive material with reflective light-diffuser modules

instead of "mirrors"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe most mirrors can't turn their reflectivity on and off based on an electric current.

I could be totally wrong about mirrors though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You just haven't turned the current high enough.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Still no pockets though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you can totally just throw it in the washing machine, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Dry clean only of course

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's like the dress Rorschach made his mask from in Watchmen.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

OMG she's wearing the same dress she wore last week! She just changed the design!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For some reason I’m not super impressed with this. Looks too much like you’re wearing e-ink panels. Call me when these are fully functioning OLEDs that kinetically charge when you walk.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Each one of those scales operates as an independent display, and coordinating them is quite a challenge. I'd be interested in knowing what is driving them, because it's surely not very portable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m sure orchestrating this isn’t super easy (however, if you treat every “display” as a “pixel”, Idk how this coding is different than a woman wearing a dress made of addressable LEDs— on the surface it doesn’t seem super complicated engineering), but it appears as unimpressive.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And why do you want this?

Or was this a "We can build it so we did"?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s awesome and also yes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I miss when everyone wasn't super pessimistic about absolutely everything and it was ok to do things for these reasons

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the book The Diamond Age, where the clothes used nanotech to transform and become waterproof etc.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hey look its the prototype for Metal Gear Solid.

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