MAKE: Blog: Wireless pain vest makes you wish you were still tethered

Wireless pain vest makes you wish you were still tethered

Austrian artist Gordan Savicic's "Constraint City" is a wearable wireless corset/network detector made from a Nintendo DS that connects to high torque servo motors that tighten the garment when you get closer to a Wi-Fi signal. The idea is to create a "schizo-geographic pain map" of the "invisible" networks that surround us daily. Sounds like a version of "Netstumbler" for the S&M crowd.

Constraint City project page - Link, [via]

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Posted by: Ushanka on November 12, 2007 at 2:26 PM

It's yet another reminder that people are stupid.

Posted by: rdarlington on November 12, 2007 at 5:48 PM

Hahaha, I couldn't agree more!

Posted by: dragonphyre on November 13, 2007 at 8:16 AM

You coulden't use that downtown here... And some of the larger communities have pretty dense wireless maps too.

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Posted by: thenickboy on November 14, 2007 at 4:09 PM

perfect way to get yourself shot for looking like a terrorist with a bomb vest.

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