Urbanhermes is a project conducted at the Sociable Media Group at the MIT, Medialab by Christine Liu (good blog for knitting fans too) and Judith Donath
Urbanhermes is an augmented messenger bag that aims to incorporate the fluid, expressive signals of electronic fashion into the constrained, material-based environment of physical fashion. the bag is able to change its dynamic, temporal display within the context of its social environment, providing versatile means for face-to-face signaling. by accelerating the physical fashion cycle, urbanhermes facilitates more meaningful and communicative representions of self-identity.

Why do I blog this? what I like in this project is this concept:

fashion signals are important in displaying one's quality of access of information. electronic fashions, information that may circulate within blog circles or online communities, experience rapid fashion cycles as the information is easily disseminated and regenerated. physical fashions, such as clothing, are unable to update as quickly as information flow due to their physical structure.

Using fashion signals as a basis for design seems to be a clever way of creating new experiences