This probably isn’t the first multi-tasking belt buckle you’ve seen, and I’m pretty certain it won’t be your last, either. Remember the belt buckle knife and the Etch-a-Sketch belt buckle?
While the Smart Belt Buckle won’t provide you with extra protection or a few minutes of fun and entertainment, it will give you some extra storage space for your credit cards and IDs.
It’s called smart for a reason. The biggest pain when you lose you wallet is having to phone the bank to cancel all your credit and debit cards. Then there’s the matter of having to file for lost IDs and waiting weeks or even months to get a new one, whether it’s for work or for your gym membership.
With this buckle around your waist, you’ll still have the essential stuff with you – even if you lose your wallet.
The Smart Buckle Belt can be personalized with your name or initials on the front, and it’s pretty light as it weighs in at only seven ounces. It’s available in three different finishes, Gun Metal, Brushed Metal and Titanium, and is available for $39.95(USD) on Amazon.
The arena of geek fashion has evolved far beyond the domain of pretentious, pabst-sipping sods. Geek Chic is no longer a self-referential term used by people who are trying to sound like intellectuals. Rather, it’s a wide, all-ecompassing term which incorporates a wide array of fashion and design choices. Far from being something ironic, it’s a celebration of all things geeky. Today, I’d like to hit you with a dose of that geeky fashion: video game controller cufflinks.
In what could be the most stylish camping accessory ever created, Meister designed this gold and titanium pendant that transforms into a functioning compass. So whether you’re deep in the woods, or strutting down a runway, you’ll theoretically never get lost with some basic survival skills. That, and just over $3,000 for the pendant. I’ll stick with hunting for moss on a tree. [Meister via Born Rich] More »
Lotta Luv is a cosmetics company that’s no stranger to collaborating with well-known chocolate and candy franchises. The latest one they’ve forged is with Jolly Rancher, where they’ve incorporated the candy’s familiar flavors into the scents and colors of their new 5-color nail polish set.
I know many nailbiters try to kick the bad habit by coating their nails with a layer or two of polish, but this is a set they should probably avoid if they want to succeed at their goal. The candy colors are tempting and perfect for summer, but if you’re trying to keep yourself from chewing on your cuticles, then these are a no-no.
Each set comes with five bottles of polish with the following color and flavor combinations: cherry (red), grape (violet), watermelon (pink), blue raspberry (obviously this one is blue), and green apple (which is again, obviously green.)
If Jolly Rancher isn’t your type, then maybe you’d fancy Bubble Yum or Nerds-scented polishes by Lotta Luv instead. You can get the Jolly Rancher polish set from Amazon for $8.88.
Summer is on its way and with it comes that perennial problem of hot and sweaty feet while dressed for success. These days businessmen in Japan can keep their cool on the job with air conditioned dress shoes. The shoes come in a wide range of colors — brown and black. The footwear can be found in the best-seller section of a prominent shoe store in Tokyo.
The clothes we wear tell part of a story about who we are. Cuban artist team Guerra de la Paz uses recylced clothes to express their political and artistic messages.
3D printing technology is amazing. People are already using 3D printers to make cookie cutters, gadgets, replacement parts, toys and even robots. Now they’re moving forward into the realm of fashion by printing full-length dresses.
Here’s burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese sporting a custom and truly one-of-a-kind 3D-printed creation.
The dress was a product of a collaboration between designer Michael Schmidt and architect Francis Bitonti. They didn’t just pull this sexy number out of their head, because it’s actually based on the Fibonacci sequence.
When they were ready with their design, they sent it off to 3D-printing service Shapeways, who printed out the gown’s seventeen meshed pieces. They assembled the parts to form one dress and voila – instant sexiness.
Shapeways designer Duann Scott had this to say about the role of 3D printing in fashion: “Traditionally, all garments are either a weave or a stitch. And with 3-D printing, we can … introduce something completely different. So we can grow designs rather than just using something that’s centuries-old technology. It’s a whole way to move forward in fashion and clothing and textiles.”
If you’ve seen the photo shoots that’ve come out thus far for Google’s Project Glass, you know good and well that they’ve taken just as many photos of the device on the heads of women as they have of men. The idea that the device will not be as appealing to the feminine side of the equation here is about more than just the idea that women will or will not want to wear the first wave of Glass as it appears on the market, but according to a couple of sources we’ve had a peek at this week, there does seem to be some concern that only the distinctly male amongst us will want to go “wearable” with Google in 2013.
First you’ll want to see what TechCrunch has whipped up using the results of a recent Google Glass “#ifihadglass” Twitter and Google+ contest. They found that respondents to this content ended up being either massively male or too ambiguously named to tell. Females appeared in these findings as well, but they ended up only appearing as a small fraction of contest-goers: unless, of course, they decided to call themselves men on the internet or decided they didn’t want to be recognized with a distinctly female name (according to that site’s name/gender algorithm.)
Then you’ll be interested to know that Google appears to be reaching out to women with a set of new photo-shoots with female Googlers. While these shoots are limited, this isn’t the first time Google reached out to a female-dominated outlet to see Glass rest on the faces of ladies. Back on September 10th, 2012, you’ll find a Glass-toting DVF fashion show heading down the runway during Fashion Week.
The following photo set comes from Google employees Isabelle Olsson and Amanda Rosenberg, both of whom worked on the DVF show last year. They’re both working on Project Glass and we’re expecting that this isn’t the last we’ve seen of either of them pushing for a continually fashion-forward appeal in the hardware – and how it appears in is final form.
So given that tiny cross-section of instances in which Google specifically addressed how Glass will look on your face, do you feel that your gender will be playing a role in how Google will be marketing the product in the future? How about those of you, specifically, that consider yourselves more feminine than you are masculine: does Glass appeal to you? Do you feel like the appeal here has anything to do with fashion, or is it purely based on how you will or will not be interacting with the technology in the near future?
Google Glass is expected to be available later this year, with some concepts impressing us as well as offering a glimpse into their possible real-world use. We’re sure it might be a tad difficult to pick out someone from a crowd using facial recognition, which is why Duke University is looking to developing a Google Glass app that would help recognize a person based on what they’re wearing.
The application is called InSight and will require your chums to submit self-portraits to the app, which would be used to create a spatiogram that would identify colors, textures and patterns people tend to wear in the submitted photos. The data would then be available on Google Glass, making it easier to find someone, that is, unless they’re the kind of person to adopt the latest fashions. Then we can see InSight never recognizing your style-changing friends.
We suggest if Google Glass comes with facial recognition, to make sure your friends look unique enough in order for the technology to do its things, since clothing recognition may not be the ideal way to recognize a person.
You’re looking at the first fully articulated 3D-printed dress. Printed off at Shapeways, the piece was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni specifically for burlesque star Dita Von Teese. In the future, this is the kind of clothing you might be able to get from a department store. More »
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