The purpose of the ‘Sonic Jacket‘ is to record sounds from the environment through which one moves during the day or night. By the end of the day/night a traveler will have a collection of an environmental sound experiences. Time of the traveling is determining different characters of experience. By the time differentiation are concerned distinct periods of the day and of the night.
—Twenty1F: Fashion for the 21st Century
Flupocalypse be damned.
In my between times, I’ve been reading through Warren Ellis’ TRANSMETROPOLITAN and enjoying every fucking page of it. TRANSMET was published in the mid 90s and ran for about 5 years. The Sonic Jacket(featured below) has a similar counterpart featured in Ellis’ TRANSMET comic. A little over 10 years ago, the jacket created today was used in Ellis-verse as a future New Media device in the hands of the everyperson.
10 years ago Ellis fictionalized what would become fact today.
Considering most science fiction writers are at least two decades dead before any of their ideas pass into reality, seeing this jacket(and many other Ellis ideas) become reality has gotta screw with his old noggin something fierce.
