Thad Starner was ahead of his time.

"Consumer electronics in many respects has become a lifestyle business and, I would say, a fashion business."

This, I didn't know:

The idea for the fashion shows came from another of the Infocharms co-founders, Katrina Barillova, a former model. Ms. Barillova came to the United States from what was then Czechoslovokia, where she had worked as an industrial spy by posing as a model, wearing listening devices while attending fancy parties. She designed and sewed her own dresses, she said, because she had to find creative ways to hide the devices in her clothes.

On the Market for Fashionable Electronics