Web developer Steffest (blog, twitter, the guy on the left in ImkeDielen's photobooth pic) got inspired by Dorien when she talked about the news on your t-shirt. Another proof that tinyurl is the Mystery Meat of the twitterverse, because Stef had hoped it would be "a t-shirt with LEDs that would show live feeds through GPRS or something" (and not the knitting project it turned out to be).That was one month ago. In the meanwhile, he found a slogan and simply started building his TweetShirt and it was ready just in the time for a very succesful demo at Barcamp Ghent.
In short, a TweetShirt is a web connected t-shirt with an embedded display that can be configured through a web interface to diplay a.o. live Twitter feeds, Flickr pictures, custom texts.
Obivously, Stef 1) is a software guy, not a marketing guy, and 2) not able to sell or ship a t-shirt built with discarded mobile phone parts and duct tape. On the other hand it's the closest thing to Wearable Computing I've seen. The idea of wearing computers on the body is certainly not new. But I like it a lot. Can someone help Stef make this project come alive?
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