... Sony has invented it for you.
"We think one of the biggest reasons is the style... the focus has been function, not style," said Hiroaki Tobita and Takuya Kuzi.
This was a quote from 2 guys, speaking — what? — in unison? Were they aided by a SmartWig?
"The goal of SmartWig is to achieve both natural and practical wearable devices," they said, adding the "natural appearance" of their invention -- which can be made from human hair -- could prove a selling point.
I agree. I've been waiting decades for the trend that — back in the 60s —
Andy Warhol seemed to be doing a fine job of making seem hip and cool.
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Warhol had an interesting sense of style; he wore silver wigs and eventually dyed his hair silver. After having been told he had lazy eyes, he wore opaque glasses that had a tiny pinhole for him to see through.
http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/artists/andy-warhol/andy-warhol-facts-2.shtml
Now that So Many Women Shave Their Pubic Hair they Can Also Come out with the SmartMerkin.
Soon enough we will all have implants—one to monitor our vital signs, another for data transmission.
Later, these will become standard shortly after birth like the HBV vaccination (and others) and circumcision.
This appears to be a harebrained idea.
I Notice that Linked Warhol Image is a Polaroid. I Wonder How Warhol Would've Functioned in the Digital Image Era: Paralysis from Too Many Possibilities? More Pieces of Work?
Maybe it explains those really cool wigs worn by female staff on the moon in the 1970s British TV series UFO ...
http://cumbriansky.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shado-ufo-girls-moonbase-10.jpg
Law students would love those computers during tests.
Your title instantly made me think of a line from Stan Lem's book "The Futurological Congress" (wherein, among other things, the hero is awakened from frozen sleep in a radically drugged future.) He remarks on current fashion, something like this:
"And, women could get their pet birds installed in little glass cages in their foreheads. Or, even better, they could not."
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