Mom, you look ridiculous. Son, what the hell are you wearing? These type of conversations go on in every household everywhere. In a generational tug of war between style and comfort it seems like parents and children are on opposite sides. But what if they changed places? What if parents wore the outfits of their children and children wore the clothes their parents wore?
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Nobody likes looking like a tourist, especially in their hometown—but with a public transportation system as complex as Tokyo’s, sometimes a map is entirely necessary. Need a simple solution to avoid getting lost while looking like a native? Wear your map in a hidden place.
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Coat hooks come in two varieties: dainty things that fling your jacket to the floor whenever someone walks by, and torture devices that take five minutes to snake through the loop in your collar. Leave it to the Swedes to come up with the perfect solution, an articulated pincher that’s deployed by the weight of your garment, and releases when you pick it off the hook.
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With Christmas less than a month away, a lot of folks have begun putting up their wreaths, lights, and Christmas trees. If you’re in the mood to spread more holiday cheer and aren’t afraid to dress in bright and bold colors, then you might want to grab a pair of these pants.
The Panta Claus pants feature one red leg and one green leg – the semi-official Christmas colors. These pants are loud, so you might want to pair them off with a simpler top, like a plain dark shirt or sweater.
The Panta Claus pants are available from Bonobos for $118(USD). Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Dare to be different by wearing your Christmas spirit around your waist.
[via Laughing Squid]
Here’s technology we can all get behind for our occasionally smelly behinds. Shreddies is a pair of underwear that promises to filter out farts. Seriously, it’s supposed kill your fart’s smell and be able to neutralize odors up to 200 times the stinky strength of the average fart. So even if you have a particularly foul brand of flatulence, Shreddies can let you fart wherever you want without feeling like you’ve dropped a bomb. Freedom farts.
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Determining exactly when humans began wearing clothes is a challenge, largely because early clothes would have been things like animal hides, which degrade rapidly. Therefore, there’s very little archaeological evidence that can be used to determine the date that clothing started being worn.
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Other than lasers and Elon Musk, magnets might be the most superhuman objects we have on this dear Earth of ours. They can make things fly, they can make things stick, they can demolish laptops, they can make you squeal and scream and feel like a kid. Another thing magnets can do? Make clothes. The two dresses above were "grown" using magnets.
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Sometimes you realize that the shorts you put on don’t actually have pockets or that the pockets on your jacket are really inaccessible. And then your day is ruined. If you had a t-shirt with a clear plastic gadget pocket this would never have been an issue. Obviously.
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This scarf will never go out of style for one reason: because it adapts to match your outfit, whatever pattern or color you’re wearing. I think the concept behind this fashionable piece is pretty self-explanatory. The scarf is embedded with LED lights all over that changes color automatically based on what it’s wearer currently has on.
You can’t buy this scarf anywhere, although you can make one of your own. The tutorial is posted online on Adafruit Learning System, which explains that the scarf uses “the Flora color sensor and 12 color-changing LED pixels diffused by a ruffly knit scarf.” Check it out in action below:
How’s that for convertible and interactive fashion?
[via Softpedia]
Have you ever been embarassed at a meeting or a party because your clothes got wrinkled on the way? First of all, you’re going to the wrong parties. The best ones don’t require you to be clothed. Second, if you don’t want that to happen again, this portable clothes iron could straighten things out for you.
Google’s translation of this gadget’s Japanese name is Mobile Trouser Press, but of course you can use it on all sorts of clothing. It can heat to 95ºC in just 1-3 minutes and runs on either three AA batteries or via USB. As you can see in the pictures, its heating elements are inside a clip-like mechanism. This means its suited for ironing pleats or collars. If your entire shirt is a wrinkled mess, you’ll need a proper iron to deal with it.
Japanese online store eSupply sells the portable clothes iron for ¥980 (~$10 USD). Good thing we don’t have a dress code here. I don’t have anything worth ironing.
[via OhGizmo!]
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