Samsung today announced a new line of IoT-enabled smarter fashion products called the Internet of Trousers. The “exciting collection of pants” brings a number of smart features to an item of clothing that most of us cannot do without.
Available in a range of styles, the new Internet of Trousers aims to “address the pain points of everyday apparel” by giving them functions never seen before on pants. Each pair comes with embedded ARTIK Smarter Fashion chip modules which can communicate with the new Smarter Fabric Care app.
Samsung’s smarter trousers come with a number of useful features. Among these are:
- Wi-Fly: Gone are the days of unnoticed, unzipped trouser zippers upon exiting the restroom. Should your fly remain open for more than three minutes, the ZipARTIK module will send a series of notifications to your smartphone to save you from further embarrassment.
- Get Up! Alert: Using pressure sensors, Samsung’s intelligent trousers detect prolonged periods of inactivity and send notifications to ‘get up off of that thing’ at least once an hour. Should you remain seated for more than three hours, devices embedded in each of the rear pockets send mild electrical shocks to provide extra motivation.
- Keep-Your-Pants-On Mode: Sometimes it’s easy to get carried away with the moment. The Samsung Bio-Processor in your pants checks your bio-data including your heart rate and perspiration level. If these indicators get too high, Samsung’s trousers will send you subtle notifications as a reminder of the importance of keeping your cool.
- Fridge Lock: If the tension around your waist gets too high, the embedded ARTIK chip module will send signals to your refrigerator to prevent you from overeating. The fridge door lock can then only be deactivated with consent from a designated person such as your mother or significant other.
Samsung’s smart clothing ambitions extend beyond pants. It is already planning to offer smart shirts and smart socks, the latter to cut down on the problem of lost and/or divorced socks). It will also open up its Smarter Fashion ecosystem to other players as an open platform. Clothing from famed fashion houses as well as your grandmother’s latest knitted Christmas sweater could soon all come with ARTIK fashion chips.
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Source : Samsung