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
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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
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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
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
