Category: Apparel
Stix Eyewear: chopstick holster glasses – make sure you clean them
These might just be the least practical invention I’ve ever seen but I really want a pair. I can’t ever think of an occasion where I’ve even wanted to carry around a knife and fork on my head, let alone have a pair of glasses in which nestle chopsticks…
Robometer happiness-indicating watch – just in case you hadn't realised how miserable you are
A gentleman by the name of Dotmancando explains very carefully how the stress indicator watch – known as the Robometer…
The world's first weather watch – lets you know it's raining when it's all too late
Oregon Scientific, with their firm grasp of the concept of the British summer, are releasing the world’s first weather watch…
Keyboard Jeans – your wearable, portable interface
If these built-in keyboard jeans…
Power dressing: Nanowire clothing to make electric energy from our movement
The 80s are back or at least that’s what I thought when I heard that the future was all about power dressing.
Un/fortunately, Professor Zhong Lin Wang of Georgia Tech is not talking about shoulder pads and trouser suits but instead has harnessed the power of nanowires to come up with materials that can convert kinetic energy into electrical current…
INCHworm Shoes with iFit technology: the shoe that grows as you do
“You’ll grow into it,” is a phrase that echoes back long into my mind as I think of a young me standing unconvinced, swamped in a pull-over between a smiling shop assistant and a nodding parent. I don’t ever remember growing into it. Instead the item in question would just go out of fashion before it would accommodate me.
Hank Miller is obviously another who suffered the same large apparel humiliation and has come up with the idea of putting Japanese iFit technology into a product called INCHworm shoes. The shoes adjust up to one full size in half size increments…
Forget shops – Onitsuka Tiger unveils trainer vending machine in Carnaby Street
Ever feel desperate for a new pair of trainers outside shopping hours? Help is at hand…
The Remember Ring – burning that important date into your memory
If it’s ever been your misfortune to forget your anniversary, then you probably never did it again. If, however, you are a glutton for punishment, then allow me to introduce the Remember Ring…
Be the envy of the post nuclear globe with these Diddo Velema designer gas masks
If, when Armageddon comes, you’re worried about how you look then you either started it or you’ve got some serious problems.
Fortunately for you artist Diddo Velema has catered for your psychotic needs with these three designer gas masks…
ThinkGeek shirts: the only good LOLcat is a dead LOLcat
Finally, it begins. I’ve been waiting for an anti-lolcats backlash since I first clapped eyes on ‘cheezeburger’, and since the ratio for genuinely funny lolcat pics is about 1:70 nowadays, I’m sure I am not alone. Think Geek is leading the revolution with ‘God kills a LOLcat’ – available for roughly £19 including international shipping.
