Biodevices brings us the Vital Jacket. This garment is used to monitor ECG waves and Heart rate levels. This can be used for sports, fitness, and medical purposes.This beat traditional cumbersome methods and is a valid high quality solution. This allows for a free range of movement with no compromise to bio-feedback integrity.
There are currently two versions available, the HWM100 that stores data on a SD memory card for post-analysis on a PC. This version allows long term monitoring. Users can define heart rate limits and will be alerted through a vibration alarm embedded in the T-Shirt.
The second version is the HWM200 that allows realtime visualization where data is sent via Bluetooth to a PDA or smart phone.
This device will set you back $635.44 and ..read more
Posted in: Biodevices, Bluetooth, Intelligent Clothes, Shirt, Sports, Sportswear, Tech Clothing Industry, Vitals Monitoring, e-Textiles
Ok one of these might be ok to wear to work, one may not. Enlightened now offers a new line called Power Ties. The company, founded by Janet Cooke, specializes in light up apparel.This particular tie has a circuit board design and features various lighting patterns. A style that may find a soft spot in the hearts of geeks everywhere. These ties are powered by 2 button batteries located within the back of the tie itself. The tie costs about $60.Also in the works is this fancy light up bra. Never lose your girlfriend in a crowd again. Enlightened offers a variety of these, check them out.
Posted in: Enlightened, LED, Light Emmiting Fabric, Shirt, Suit, Techno Fashion, Textiles, Underwear
Philips is looking to make wearable tech functional over fashionable. Monitoring body functions have always been intrusive. The patenient has to be stationary and wired up.In an effort to combat heart diesease and heart failure, HeartCycle is a global project that aims to have live vitals of a patient. Using the data to prevent and monitor, this can mean big things.
Posted in: Philips, Shirt, Vitals Monitoring
Firebox.com finally has most sizes available for its WiFi detecting T-Shirt.The WiFi T-shirt is available at Firebox.com for $38.90.
Posted in: Display, Firebox, Intelligent Clothes, Light Emmiting Fabric, Shirt, WiFi Detection
How can you embarrass your significant other on Valentine’s Day? Or even find another herb or herbette? ThinkGeek has an 8 – bit Dynamic Love Life shirt.
To make this magic work, you need one transmitter and one receiver shirt to make the hearts appear. This scale is based on proximity of each other. The shirt is washable(feel free to be lame again next year), all you have to do is remove the electric elements that are fully detachable.
So for $24 you can get the shirt, but the transmitter is not yet available or priced.
Posted in: Display, Shirt, ThinkGeek, e-Textiles
WiFi Detecting T-Shirt’s keep getting more stylish. The last introduction of Thinkgeek’s Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt was already a great looking T-Shirt, it’s a bit geeky to wear but hey – life should be fun as well.
In case you want to have the convenient WiFi sniffing without reaching for your laptop, you have the option and go for one of those WiFi detecting bags we recently posted about.
The Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt searches for wireless signals in the 802.11b or 802.11g range and shows their signal strength in a Macbook stylized laptop image on the front of the T-Shirt.
The WiFi Detecting T-Shirt will be available for just £20.- ($39.-) from the end of January by firebox.com
Posted in: Display, Intelligent Clothes, Shirt, Techno Fashion, WiFi Detection
The Hug Shirt first posted about here is a concept created by the fabulous team of Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. The founders of CuteCircuit, have taken on the challenge to bring this great idea to reality.
Much has been written and said about the Hug Shirt but it seems this, once seen as ‘just a concept’ idea, is reaching the next level, being a product that consumers can buy.
So what exactly is it? The Hug Shirt is basically a Bluetooth accessory, according to CuteCircuit, that works together with Java enabled cellphones.
Sensors integrated into the Hug Shirt register your hug and sends the intensity and position of your hug via Bluetooth to your cellphone running the Hug Me java software which in turn sends this data as simple SMS to the ..read more
Posted in: Bluetooth, CuteCircuit, Mobile Phone Integration, Shirt, Techno Fashion, e-Textiles
The T-Qualiser shirts have been around for some time and I have to admit, we have one since we have posted about it. It’s cool and brings a lot of fun to any party. The TQalizer shirts are not made for the serious folks but for those how like to be in the center of the dance floor action.T-Qualiser, the distributor behind this shirts has added a cute twist to the up to now male dominant range of T-Qualiser T-Shirts, the TQ Style, a pink, heart shaped equalizer for the dance floor girls.
There are seven other models for the boys but all have the same features like the sound sensitivity controller that pulsates your heart (on the TQ Shirt) in time with the music it ‘hears’. How? A sound sensor ..read more
Posted in: Display, FlashWear, Shirt, T-Shirt, Techno Fashion
Music and Sons from Italy offers this beautiful looking urban-style fashion T-Shirt for girls and boys, for the music enthusiasts and fashionistas.
How many times did I get in trouble with my tangling wires in front off me. In the office, at home and in crowded places, I had encounters with sudden, forceful earphone removals because something or someone got between my body and the tangling wires.
That’s now over with Music and Sons’s T-Shirts that come with stereo earphones and a side pocket for the iPod or MP3 player. No more flying cables and sudden earplug removal.
The T-Shirts are designed in Italy, manufactured in Bangladesh through the fair trade project Aarong and are finished, printed and “set to music” one by one in Italy by Music and Sons.
A conductive ..read more
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Numetrex started selling just in time for the ‘big daddy day’ the Cardio Shirt.
The Cardio Shirt eliminates the need for a separate heart rate monitoring chest strap – and makes you boys and dads great looking. It comes in two colors: Graphite or Blue Steel.
The NuMetrex cardio shirt is compatible with Polar heart rate monitors and the Polar WearLink transmitter. More details on this great looking shirt on our previous post.
Go and make your Father (or husband) happy and keep him off the couch fit and buy the Cardio Shirt directly by Numetrex’s online shop. If you order before June 15 you get even a 20% discount which makes in only $ 47.15
Go and hurry up!
If you do not have a Polar system, Numetrex offers you different packages with the ..read more
Posted in: NuMetrex, Shirt, Sports, Sportswear
