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.
One of my issues with wearable technology is the problem that they can be a bit of a faff to wash. A hoodie with built in earphones sounds pretty cool, but it loses some cool points if you have to spend ages removing the earphones when laundry day rolls around, so I was quite excited when I saw that it was machine washable. You’d expect something like this to be mighty expensive (especially since I found out about it via a PR company), but they’re actually very much afforable at $44 for a guys hoodie. I guess the proof would be in the pudding as they say because I have no idea what quality you get through the earphones, if they were a weak link then I can’t see many people having an interest in this hoodie.
Hoodie Buddie
This
hoodie is very cool, and has that typical Paul Frank cheekiness about it. You know how you want to listen to music when you’re wandering around, but you have to mess around with the cable from the headphones so that it isn’t dangling around, well this
hoodies solves those issues by having a headphone jack in the pocket and earbuds at the end of the drawstrings. My first thought when I saw this was “how do you wash it?” It says on the product page that the hoodie is ‘machine washable’ so clearly that’s been taken into consideration. I doubt that you’ll be getting the same sound quality out of these earbuds as with a pair of badass
Skullcandy ones like mine, but come on, the headphones are in the drawstrings, how cool is that!?
Coatiness=$36 Available from hoodiepeople.com
Have you ever looked at a t-shirt and gone “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if someone took this tee and printed another graphic on top of it, and wouldn’t it just blow your mind if those two graphics were random and not paired up in any way?”
That’s what Nonsek do, and at first you’d presume that it was a really stupid idea, pretty much flying in the face of all that makes sense in the design world. But, shockingly, some of that tees are actually pretty cool. Using the Nonsek Machine you pick an artist, and then just remix to your hearts desire until out pops a t-shirt that you like, and ‘good’ tees do appear with surprising frequency. It’s an unusual concept, so I recommend that you try it out yourself simply for the novelty value.
Nonsek [thanks for the tip, Pam!]
