I want somebody to make this product: a loosely connected electronic system which tracks movements of my body and triggers events I choose to associate with certain movements, gestures or postures.
So in other words, if in real life, I clicked my heels and said the word “home” {in this case a motion+word™ triggered it} my memory-recording device would spring to motion until I gave it the release signal. Then shaking my right hand and saying something else, “fly”, would send a holographic image of a bird flying up from my hand - but it would actually be the memories which I’d just extruded(?). (Or a photo of this moment from my perspective {for example: the gesture artists do with their two thumbs to form a canvas would take a cropped snapshot of my visual field} would get uploaded to my Flickr account.}
The simpler explanation/more immediate use of this programmable semantic meaning suit™ would be to basically make a the equivalent of a “ringtone” {think: frequencyID} associated a certain gesture or posture. So I could flick my wrist and jiggle my finger and a funny song of my choosing would audibly play in front of me and whoever happened to be around me in physical space. It would allow you to affix media reference points and advertising signifiers (or non-advertising, but who’s gonna pay for that shit?) directly into gestalt human perceptual moments, with multi-modal triggers: a gesture (like a flip phone), an audio frequency and keyword cluster, and whatever else you want to ad into the mix.
Performers of all kinds would benefit from a suit like that, because their own physical body could become a mixed realm locus of augmented moments… just think of the ^gasp^ possibilities!
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I’m pretty sure this could be built out of existing technology and am kind of tempted to try it. Maybe a bunch of different people should try it, document their efforts and pool their resources into some kind of mutually-beneficial financial enterprise. I could definitely see “early adopter” types eating this kind of product up - and it’s good training wheels for teaching people how to use technology which must follow it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionism
sounds cool. I’ve seen the one man band version, I can picture it.
I believe u r right, the tech exists and it is doable.
Only missing holographic 3d equipment to produce birds out of sleeves and rabbits out of hats into thin air. I can suggest that, since the suit needs different functions, you could create an armband, or a glove, hat, or whatever with these features, to start it with a smaller goal, and then could piece it up to anyone willing to work on a part of the suit (codpiece, anyone?)
Yeah that was my idea, is start with really basic functionality: like having it play one of six different built-in sounds depending on your gesture. And then move upwards from there.