Martian Attack – Zapparel from Zappar on Vimeo.
If you haven’t got time to watch the video, it shows a t-shirt being the backdrop for a game on an iPad, can you imagine showing that to someone even 20 years ago, they’d call you a witch and dunk you in a pond, it boggles my mind how quickly technology is moving. As far as I know that shirt is not yet available, though I would presume you should keep an eye on Zappar.com to keep up with developments.

I thought I’d better make sure that ‘ambigram’ was the right word for this kind of shirt (where if you flip over the word it still reads the same), and it was, but on the Wikipedia page it listed a few other names for them that I thought were pretty cool.
vertical palindromes (1965)
designatures (1979)
inversions (1980)
FlipScript (2008)
FlipScript? I’m sure they thought it was cool when they came up with it.
$10 today at Shirt.Woot

I suppose that with people having the ability to make cameras the size of a pin head it should surprise me that it’s possible to hide a camera in a t-shirt, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they should do it. I would like to think there are some legit uses for this t-shirt from ThinkGeek, perhaps for making a timelapse of a run, or taking photos you shouldn’t in a museum (which I think is okay, but many museums would not), but let’s be honest, we all know what people are thinking when they order a spy camera t-shirt… BOOBS!
Costiness=$39.99 Buy it at ThinkGeek


At the weekend the love-of-my-life and I went to the gargantuan Trafford Centre near Manchester to shop (I bought pants!), exchange her broken iPhone (Apple were having none of it, but they’ve sent one now, huzzah!), eat burritos, watch Scott Pilgrim (post about the tees in that coming up soon on HYA), and generally have a good time (we did).
Whilst we were wandering about in Selfridges we happened upon the Muji section. I really wish that Muji still had their own stores in the UK, but I guess it wasn’t to be, so we’ll have to make do with an in-store store. Amongst all the other well-designed items were these little cubes of cotton, which when opened would reveal themselves to be an extremely wrinkled t-shirt. I’ve got no idea of the quality of the t-shirt, but I really liked the idea of tee-cubes, and the scarf-cubes they also sold, and thought you guys might enjoy seeing it too.
I also found ‘Ass Blaster’ hot sauce in Selfridges, but we probably shouldn’t dwell on that for too long.
They can also be purchased from the Muji online store in the UK (and presumably elsewhere) for £9.95.

Here’s something cool, a t-shirt that also doubles up as safety clothing!
At first I just thought that they were just brightly printed, but it turns out that some of the wheels on the bikes in the design are printed with a reflective ink so that it makes you easier to see when you’re out cycling on the road. Neato!
Costiness=$40 Buy it at Dargelos [via ATB]