I only live about an hour from the Scottish border, and yet I’ve only been there twice. Once for a week’s holiday when I was younger, to a hotel that overlooked this bridge, and the other time just to go and look at Edinburgh university. And yet, I feel as if I know enough about Scottish culture to find this tee more than a bit hilarious, and also that I shouldn’t wear this in Scotland, because that would be a quick way to find yourself a beating, presumably followed by being deep-fried. Oh yeah, the tee, this one’s from Go Ape Shirts!Costiness=$18 Link

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I haven’t quite decided who should get the ever-so-powerful HYA Presidential endorsement, but I do like this tee, and as the pic above shows, Barack Obama certainly doesn’t disapprove!

Enstrumental released their OBAMA shirt in March 2007 (before many hopped on the OBAMA tee bandwagon) and has given 8% of the proceeds of the many shirts sold to the OBAMA campaign.

Enstrumental have got a great selection of other tees too, so it might be worth clicking through even if you’re still a bit pissed that the guy with the best hair isn’t in the race anymore.Costiness=$35 Link

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Okay, here’s a diversion from my usual coverage, a t-shirt that can actually generate electricity! From the New Scientist:

In 2007 Zhong Lin Wang, a materials scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US, developed a generator composed of a forest of piezoelectric zinc oxide nanowires topped by a flat conductive plate. As the plate is pushed down, the wires bend, producing a voltage that induces current to flow into the plate.

Now Wang has turned this idea into an electricity-generating thread, which he plans to weave into a fabric. His team figured out how to grow the nanowires on a strand of Kevlar fibre instead of a flat surface, so that the wires stick out from the fibre like the bristles on a pipe-cleaner.

When two of the bristly fibres rub against one another, the nanowires deform, causing a current to flow through a thin layer of metal coating on one of the fibres.

(That’s quite a long quote, so I feel like a bit of a plagiariser, but there’s no way I’d be able to explain this succinctly)

How awesome would it be if you could charge your cellphone just by wearing a t-shirt? Or keep your iPhone playing as long as you kept walking? I’d imagine that we’re probably many years away from this being a usable technology, but it’s always interesting to see how technology is moving on.

New Scientist

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Custom T-shirt Talk has a good roundup of the myriad of t-shirt subscription services. Y’know, the ones where you pay every month (or annually) and a t-shirt you’ve never seen before ends up at your door every month, sounds pretty crazy when you say it like that, but these services are pretty popular and can be great if you want to expand your style horizons somewhat by getting a random tee every month.

T-Shirt Subscriptions - Review of Top Monthly T-shirt Services

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Limited Edition Black and Grey Abraham Lincoln shirts are being offered by Enclothe for one week only. From Abe’s birthday Feb 12th to President’s Day Feb 18th. Order the Abe shirt and get 10% off any other tee or hoodie that you order at the same time.

They’ve also reprinted the Eternal Embrace shirts, with a new brown colorway as well as the standard grey on grey.Enclothe

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I’m currently umming and ahhing about whether I should go to Hong Kong in a couple of weeks for a holiday. I want to go, but I’m a little apprehensive about going on my own. And when I saw this tee land in my inbox, I took it as another sign that I’m meant to see this view with my own eyes at some point in the future.Costiness=€28 Link

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