Get ready for transparency in banking to reach a whole new level if this Dutch design team has their way. Studio Rooseagaarde (any relation to @KevinRoose?) is creating what it believes is the avant garde in banker attire: a suit that becomes invisible when a banker is lying.
The suit utilizes "smart e-foils" to detect increased heart rate and other biological markers which indicate deception. Studio head Dan Rooseagaarde admits that the suit is designed with bankers in mind and is based on current lie detector technology and methodology.
Some folks (at least the folks at SmartMoney) hope the technology catches on and banking regulators make it mandatory. Having seen some of you guys, this is pretty much everyone's worst f**king nightmare. Do you even lift, bro?
All joking aside, I can see where something like this would come in handy in the bars. We're all pretty much lying non-stop when talking to women in bars, so these suits would really separate the men from the boys, so to speak. Natural selection at its finest.
Anyway, I'll leave the designer to explain the concept to you, and then you can tell me if this self-described "hippie out to change the world" has partaken maybe one too many shrooms. Who knows, it might be all the fashion in a couple years.
I wonder what FINRA has to say about Rockports.
Shouldn't they send these to lawyers and judges first? Congress? The application of this tech seems endless.
So when the client comes in from Cincinatti, and you say, "Jim, how the hell are you, great to see you!", you're basically naked before you start the pitch?
FUCK YOU FINRA
All of Washington needs to be donned in these suits, mandated by law.
I would have no disincentive to lie. I look damn good.
Politicians need to wear one too...
What about female bankers, etc?
It's a good thing women never lie...
dat pear shape
the emperor has no clothes lol. Yeah politicians to the front of the line please.
Made me laugh.
Yeah, I do brah...COME AT ME FINRA!
Kidding aside, there are good reasons why most employers (excluding the federal government) can't make you take a polygraph.
Just out of curiosity, how does the The Employee Polygraph Protection Act (1988 I think?) factor in? Genuine curiosity here because I really don't know. I would assume this can't be legal unless congress does something.
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