Grammy Winner Displays Tweets on her Dress
The Grammys took place this past weekend in Los Angeles and though all the women were decked out designer clobber, one dress in particular had all heads turning toward a London-born singer-song writer.
Imogen Heap – best known for the Shrek theme song when she when she was one half of Frou Frou – made headlines with her dress and purse that displayed her Twitter followers' tweets. During the awards, messages from fans tweeting @imogenheap scrolled across the collar of Imogen's dress. Not only that, but Heap was equipped with a TwitPic handbag that displayed pictures from fans on her handbag.
The singer explained she created the dress so that her fans could be part of the ceremony. “I just thought it’d be nice for them to come with me so I’ve got a live Twitter feed from them," she said, according to the Times.
The handbag contained an iPod touch running custom software and all messages were routed to Heap's collar and purse via a wireless router in the back of her dress.
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LMFAO!!! How pathetic have we become?
Owner of Twitter says "This is the best legal addiction we've come up with yet."
Neat.
While most of us here scoff at twitter, I have to admit that the application of technology here is quite interesting.
I like high-tech entertainers. Most of 'em don't know stuff, but when they do, it's cool.
Well, it definitely got her some attention.
"when she when she"
Don't have time to proofread a 100-word article?
iPod touch with custom software? JAILBROKEN!!! Now Apple will be starting a suit against her for it.
interesting use of custom tech. I hope the programmer(s) got well paid.
kudos on the hacks. But why!
twitter needs to be limited strictly to business use only after this stunt. know it won't happen, though.
Also, no fail-whale resulting from this? I'm impressed!
Sweet Imogen Heap won the grammies. I didn't even know she was nominated.
I guess the custom software filtered through inappropriate tweets? lol
I would hope so as I am sure there are plenty of people that would get a kick outta writing obscene phrases on her dress. I would think it to be funny.
Wow! Hadn't heard about her in a while. She's got a great voice (see/hear here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EpXW2ys5rE), glad that she won.
For some reason, I have a feeling this could become a advertising tool....
ROFLMAO ZOMG WTF! this is prolly one of the most rediculous, yet pretty cool thing ive seen yet...next to J-Lo's dress a couple years back of course...MJ's glove had more fabric to it then that dress did lol!