Smart Closet - Fashion aide extraordinaire...

From BusinessEdge (and via Gizmodo and The Raw Feed), Australian researchers are working on computerizing yet another part of life: your closet! Sounds geeky, but the use-and-usability implications are pretty impressive. Assuming the closet can recognize each piece of clothing (using RFID, image recognition, or whatever), it can advise on matching various items with each other, the appropriateness of a selection for the level of dressiness of an event, when each item is due for cleaning, even whether you've worn the same thing the last time you went to a particular event. Extrapolating a bit, it's easy to envision a web-connected version advising on fashion trends ("that shirt is OUT, get rid of it"), helping buy new clothes that match well with your existing items, or even checking with friends' closets to make sure you don't wear the same thing as your buddy to the same shindig. The best part? The fact that this product is aimed squarely at geeks, who are most in need of all the advice it's designed to dispense. Talk about a match!