You may think you know a pair of pants when you buy ’em, but denim’s true character isn’t revealed until your trou are well-loved, worn-in, and sudsed up a few times. Rather than just fade out like most pairs on the market—booooring—Betabrand’s new Gay Jeans (yup) have a technicolor surprise hiding underneath the regular indigo.
It doesn’t matter if you are a celebrity who is being stalked by the paparazzi, or you continuously feel like Big Brother is watching, or maybe you just hate having your picture taken. We found the perfect thing for you.
The Justice Cap looks like a normal baseball cap. The major difference is there is a built in set of high powered LED lights along the rim of the visor. These lights make it difficult for most cameras to capture your face in a video or on a digital camera. Used it at night and this hat works perfectly to black out your face. During the daylight hours, however, it will only be able to hide part of your face.
Watch their YouTube video to get an idea of the capabilities of this simple yet perfect way to hide your identity.
Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Now that there’s a version of the Microsoft Office suite available for the iPad, it’s a decent time to make sure your tablet’s case looks like it means business. From the makers of the much-loved Cord Tacos, This Is Ground’s Cargito iPad cases combine simple design with hidden treats. They’re loaded with mobile charging options and compartments for sidecar necessities.
The Cargito Air Charging iPad Case comes with a 7000 mAh battery in a zip-up compartment and an integrated Lightning cable that lets you give your iPad a full recharge in transit while it’s tucked inside the full-leather sleeve. There’s also a smaller and cheaper version — the Cargito Mini Charging iPad Case — made for the iPad Mini.
Both sizes include a strap that’s fitted to hold a Pencil stylus, a compartment for your business and/or credit cards, and a zip-up pocket. In the charger-equipped versions of each case, the rechargeable battery goes in that zip pocket; there are also non-charging versions of each sized case that free up that zip compartment for spare change, hard candy, or a pocketable amount of what-have-you.
These high-end cases come with some high-end price tags. The Cargito Air Charging case costs $165, and the Cargito Mini Charging case goes for $155. If you want to supply your own battery pack, you can save a little bit: $109 for the larger non-charging version, and $99 for the non-charging Mini version.
Color options abound. Each case size comes in eight colors, including various shades of brown, black, white, and gold.
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The rainforest dumps water and bugs on your head, throws mud in your face, and chucks branches (or entire trees) in your path. This is the gear we used to survive eight days of Amazonian abuse.
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