Wearing what you are

In this era of mobile phones, security cameras, internet and all the other electronica that we allow to eavesdrop into our lives, is it any wonder that our clothes may soon watch over us too?

PSFK has a preview of the first company to seemingly achieve this new benchmark in sensor technology: A garment that keeps tabs on you, potentially revolutionizing health care diagnosis.

At face value, the medical angle makes it a bit more palatable. But what would stop a company from embedding similar technology in employee uniforms or even in the latest fashions.

Imagine the potential in being able to track your customers or employees, long past the moment they leave your business? Perhaps to even be able to guage their health, as a biometric litmus test of sorts.

Perhaps these ideas are a bit of an exaggeration, but the idea that my clothes could track me scares me a bit. The leap, from a unitard you wear for your doctor to "clothes that look hip" with biometric readers casually embedded, becomes plausible in this era of smaller, more powerful energy sources.

How far are we willing to go to provide others with information about ourselves?