Wouldn’t it be great if there was a shirt(or something vaguely resembling a shirt) that monitored our heart rate at all times? Well, wait. There is! Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have created an intelligent eT-shirt that purports to do just that.
Hey you hypochondriacs out there. It is intended for hospital use, to make it easier on doctors to monitor their patients. Also, it’s not just for your heart. The shirt is embedded with electrodes that monitor its wearer’s vitals, and a removable thermometer and accelerometer for the collection of temperature and positioning data.
This has already been tested in a hospital in Madrid and it passed with flying colors. No word on its bedside manner though. You never know with shirts. Sometimes they can be real sticks ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Shirt, Vitals Monitoring
Sure, some t-shirts do some pretty cool things. But do any use the power of sound vibrations to charge your mobile device? We think not, until now. Orange UK’s appropriately named Sound Charge T-shirt purports to do just that.
The shirt was designed to be used at loud music festivals. If your charge is running low on your phone, all you have to do is wear the shirt near some of the festival’s many mega-loud speakers. Before long, thanks to the magic of piezoelectrics, your phone will be charged. This is truly a cool and quirky use of technology if there ever was one.
Of course, it only works when it is near really loud sources of sound. Just because your ex-wive’s nagging seems loud to you doesn’t mean it is loud ..read more
Posted in: Mobile Phone Integration, Orange UK, Shirt, T-Shirt
Monitoring sleeping patterns can be tricky business. It can require tons of wires, tons of equipment and a whole lot of headaches. Headaches, after all, do not help insomniacs fall asleep. It’s a good thing, then, that recent start up Nyx Devices is on the case. The company has created something called the Somnus Sleep Shirt, which purports to make sleep monitoring easy as counting sheep.
The shirt works by analyzing your breathing patterns. It is fitted with two sensors, one on each side of the shirt, that gets that job done. That information is then transmitted to a small data recorder, which can then be uploaded to the company’s server and analyzed. Co-inventor Matt Bianchi, a sleep neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, thinks the Somnus could help patients suffering from ..read more
Posted in: Nyx Devices, Shirt, Vitals Monitoring
Working out is hard, um, work. Why not make it a bit easier, right? Under Armour hears your flabby, flabby pleas and have readier their E39 performance shirt. This amazing little doo-dad uses electric compression to give you the workout of your dreams.
The shirt comes equipped with with a triaxial accelerometer, processor, and 2GB of storage joined by additional monitors that measure the wearer’s heart rate and breathing. Your biometric data is then analyzed to show you what you are doing wrong and right with your workout. A clue: Sitting on your couch and eating nachos is probably gonna fall on the “wrong” side of that equation.
The NFL has already equipped a handful of players with the E39 shirts. Want more information? Check out this video.
Posted in: Environmental Monitoring, Shirt, Under Armour, Wearable Tech
Shirts can do a lot of things nowadays. Until now, however, nobody has capitalized of the very simple concept of turning a shirt into a holder for your beloved iPad. This shirt does just that.
Syte Shirt is a start up company with one goal in mind, give iPad fans a new way to show off. This shirt features a sleeve to tuck your iPad in, where the screen is in full display. Yes, this means cute girls can poke at your abs as they try out the iPa. It could work, budding Romeos.
The shirt even comes with ports for attaching the many useful cords and wires that interact with everyone’s favorite tablet device. These shirts are on sale now for around $50. That’s only 1/5th of an iPad.
Posted in: Shirt, Syte Shirt
Lots of shirts encourage you to wear them, but how many encourage you to actually make them gross? That’s the case with FIFT and their Wipe Shirt. The shirt that is used to clean all of your favorite gadgets.
The shirt uses a cleansing microfiber that is perfect for cleaning the screen of your iPhone, iPad or anything else with a glossy and easy to muck up screen. Incidentally, it also works for glasses. Incidentally again, it is also stylish in an understated way. If the aesthetic isn’t your bag, not to worry, new styles are on the way.
The bad news? This useful frock will set you back about $150. That’s a lot of dough when a pocketed rag does just about the same thing. Still, it is pretty cool.
Posted in: FIFT, Shirt
You have a smartphone that tells you when you have new emails, but do you have a shirt that does the same thing? Didn’t think so. You know who does, though? Two industrious modders known as Chris and Madeline. This husband and wife duo has created a t-shirt that lets you know when you have new emails.
It gets this done using an Arduino Lilypad microcontroller, a few LEDs, conductive thread, and a Bluetooth dongle. The result? A flashing light when your friends and family are letting you know what is up, or when an African prince lets you know you are about to be the proud recipient of a billion dollars.
If you are interested in cobbling together your own, check out a video on the procedure here.
Posted in: Bluetooth, Concept Design, DIY - Corner, LED, Shirt
Cool Shirt is a company that make a neat refrigerated shirt. This company offers many different solutions for cooling from small scale to industrial solutions. The cooling comes from a non-flammable CFC-Free solution that flows through about 50 feet of tubing.The fluid is stored in a replaceable 12oz Port-a-cool can. This button activated system goes for a reasonable $179.90.
Posted in: Cool Shirt, Cooling, Safety, Shirt, Sports
Studio 5050 is back again with the Embrace-Me hoodie. This hoodie has a large conductive version of their logo printed on front. When two Embrace-Me hoodies combine in a hug, lighted version of the big dipper appears on the back and a heartbeat sound is emitted.The hoodies come in a luxurious, cashmere-like 100% bamboo basket weave and are super soft. In about 4 weeks and $480.00 to $600.00 bucks you can get your own pair of Embrace-Me hoodies to share.
Posted in: Conductive Yarn, Display, Intelligent Clothes, Jacket, Light Emmiting Fabric, Lighting, Shirt, Sportswear, Studio 5050, Techno Fashion, Top, e-Textiles
Stressed and Depressed brings us a stereo integrated hoodie solution. Since the hooded sweat shirt is one of the most versatile things in the closet. How wonderful to have stereo sound too.This Hoodie is using NXT’s SurfaceSound technology designed into a Stereo Speaker Insert module which can be easily clipped directly into the hood of any Stressed and Depressed hooded garment. Powered by 3 AAA batteries, the 2mm EVA foam speakers by NXT SurfaceSound. Audio hookup comes via the 3.5mm jack.Best of all its clips out and fits into any Stressed and Distressed hoodies. For $107.50 you can get your own 100% cotton audio hoodie.
Posted in: Jacket, NXT, Shirt, Sound, Sportswear, Stressed and Depressed, iPod Fashion
