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Here’s a dress that turns transparent every time you tweet

Are you so addicted to tweeting — and revealing details about yourself — that you’d walk down the streets of Manhattan naked?

That’s the point two students are trying to prove with their Interactive Telecommunications thesis at NYU.

Xuedi Chen and Pedro G. C. Oliveira have created a minimal structured dress called X.Pose, made of 3D printed mesh and reactive displays, which turns transparent every time you produce online data via your smartphone, such as sending tweets or updating your Facebook status.

“As more data is produced and collected from her, the more naked she will become,” the video explains.

The interactive design is to remind people that increasing amounts of personal info posted to the Web makes everyone more vulnerable to companies, who compile the most intimate details about people’s lives.

“In the physical realm, we can deliberately control which portions [of] our bodies are exposed to the world by covering [them] with clothing,” the inventors explain on their Vimeo page. “In the digital realm, we have much less control of what personal aspects we share with the services that connect us. In the digital realm we are naked and vulnerable.”