It’s been quite a week for Pac-Man, first getting his own furniture line in the form of the Pac-Man Poufman and now being featured front and center by designer Giles Deacon at a recent fashion show.
We’ve seen technology being incorporated into all kinds of wearable jewelry and so it should be. Carrying around a USB stick on a key chain isn’t tough, but it is one extra gadget that you have hanging out of your pocket. If that USB stick can be incorporated into a piece of jewelry, then it becomes fashionable, functional and fun. As such, it just makes sense to see jewelry gadgets and I believe this is theme will continue as time passes.
Garment Guard, has just done humanity a great service with their product Subtle Butt. Subtle Butt is an activated carbon anti-microbial inserts that fits discreetly inside of your underwear. To put it simply, when the person farts, Subtle Butt will absorb and neutralize the fart, preventing you from having an embarrassing moment. With this gadget, you can have your beans and eat them to.
If you grew up in an era when records and cassettes were big, you may still have a healthy collection of them in your home. Jeff Davis, an American Designer, who’s other designs have included record bowls now offers vinyl jewelry.
If you’re elderly and prone to falls or just someone with two left feet who keeps stumbling over yourself, Tokyo based Prop has produced a wearable airbag. The 2.4 pound airbag resembles a traveler’s waist pouch.
The T-Sketch t-shirt from Elektro range really has the look and feel of an Etch a Sketch for clothing. Writing your message on the wipe clean panel activates a glowing light below it to cause your text to glow. A series of settings can be manipulated to control that glow from a gentle hue to a pulsing strobe.
To erase your message, all you need to do is jump and and down a couple of times and the screen clears itself….only kidding. However, this t-shirt does require 2 AAA batteries to power itself.
[T-Sketch via Gadget Venue]
Elegance and attitude, those are the two defining qualities you will express with the barbed wire cuff bracelet. A handmade creation of designer Nina Dinoff, the barbed wire cuff bracelets are hand cast from swizzle sticks and plated in either sterling silver or 18 karat gold-plated brass.
[Uncommon Goods via Productdose]
Thanko announced the availability of their All In One Media Player Sunglasses. In addition to eye protection, these sunglasses offer the wearer the ability to listen to music and watch video files. The sunglasses support MP3/WMV audio formats and MP4/MPG/AVI/ASF video formats. Apparently, the viewing area for these glasses is 50 inches with QVGA resolution (432 x 240)
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