[rpledge]

Perhaps the goal is to get mainstream people accustomed to seeing people wearing the odd looking device. I don't think they look all that fashionable, but I could say the same about other things at most fashion shows.

Maybe by having them at fashions shows, they become fashionable? There is some kind of self fulling prophecy here....

[indiecore]

Mainstream people don't watch fashion shows, nerds much like ourselves but who like clothes instead of computers watch fashion shows, I'd wager they were just trying to get it out there to designers and get feedback like this for free. Pretty clever of them if you ask me.

[Evbn]

Fashion shows make the front page of news sites like seattlepi.com all the time, well beyond the public interest in fashion shows, since news sites like to show pictures.