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ugh on Oct 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The...

Exactly. There is nothing that would stop us from making smartphones water resistant and shock resistant and sowing them into clothes. It’s not that we don’t do it because it’s impossible, we don’t do it because it’s a stupid idea.

0x12 on Oct 10, 2011 [–]

Ah, but think of the sponsor & advertising angle. Rent out the space on your t-shirt.

Eventually every surface will turn in to an ad. And animated ads after that. The animated t-shirt can't be all that far into our future.

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