Here’s something you will want in your closet: clothes that never stain. Hell, they never even get wet. This Silic T-shirt basically cleans itself with hydrophobic nanotechnology. That means no matter what you spill on it, it’ll never damage the shirt.
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Hey you, wandering tech obsessive. Want a t-shirt with some white outlines that prove you attended CES this year. Then you’d best make your way around to the Engadget stage (between North and Central halls) here in Vegas, because we’ve got many hundreds of t-shirts to give away all this week. Along the side of the stage we’ve got a vending machine filled with them. But there’s no cash slot. So what do you do? It’s not all that complicated. Approach the machine, and you’ll be asked to tweet your most beloved gadget of 2012, alongside the mandatory #engadgetces hashtag and a size-code. Seconds later, a freshly packed t-shirt, given the nod by editor-in-chief Tim Stevens himself, will be yours to walk away with. A visual guide follows.
Continue reading Get your Engadget tee at our CES vending machine: a guide
An LED display, camera, microphone, speaker and accelerometer all packaged into a t-shirt and controlled via your smartphone? That’s the concept behind tshirtOS, a wearable platform for “self-expression” that currently only exists as a prototype. It can show off tweets, play music videos, capture belly-height photos and send them off to Instagram, and pretty much do anything except play percussion. CuteCircuit, which came up with the idea in cahoots (inexplicably) with Ballantine’s whisky, says it’s about to conduct product tests and will mass produce the smart-shirts if enough folks register interest. There’s no Kickstarter page, definite specs or pricing for any of this, but based on CuteCircuit’s history and the video after the break we’re inclined to believe TshirtOS is more than just viral marketing stunt for the sake of a dram — click onwards and judge for yourself.
Continue reading TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton (video)
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