Section 03 · Wearable Digital Identity
Wearable digital identity, with you in control
A shirt that opens your portfolio is a business card nobody can lose. It's also a door you leave open in public.
This desk covers clothing and accessories that link to a person: conference shirts with a contact card, musicians with a code to their profile, freelancers and artists using a jacket patch as a portfolio link. It's one of the most practical uses of QR apparel, and one of the easiest to get wrong.
The questions we keep asking are about control. Who can see the page? Does it show a personal phone number to every stranger at a festival? Can you switch the link off when you leave a job, or point it at something new? We favor setups where you own the destination, share only what the moment needs, and can change your mind later.
Coming up: a starter guide to wearable digital identity, and the beginner mistakes that put too much on the page.
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On this beat elsewhere
- Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgetsThe Verge
- Netflix is pivoting away from prestigeThe Verge
- Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase riskThe Verge
- Sling TV drops its one-day cable passesThe Verge
- OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinnerThe Verge
- Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to doThe Verge