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IonX - Ionically Charged Sports Clothing
England are hoping to gain an edge in this year's Rugby World Cup by the use of a smart ionically charged fabric in the kit. The makers - Canterbury - claim that the negatively charged ions generated by the friction between their coated tops and an athlete's body provide a small but significant competitve . . .Article posted: 18/09/2007 Read full article...
CECT Mobile Wrist Watch Phone
We've seen a number of prototypes and early models of wrist watch phones and now Qiao Xing Mobile (using the brand name of CECT) say they are introducing their W100 model pictured on the right. The watch is claimed not only to be a phone but also a 1.3 megapixel camera. It has a 65k LCD touch screen and 1GB of flash . . .Article posted: 20/08/2007 Read full article...
T-Qualizer T-shirt
There's lots of cool gear out there but this one's really cool. It's a T-shirt with a functional graphics equalizer displayed on the front. This otherwise cotton T-short responds to ambient sound via its EL (electro-luminescent) display showing coloured bars that rise and fall depending on the frequency and volume of the music. . . .Article posted: 12/08/2007 Read full article...
Scalar T3-F Teleglasses
Japan's Scalar Corp. has yet again managed to shrink the HMD (head mounted display) and they now really are becoming a manageable size - only slightly more obtrusive than Bluetooth earphones.Their latest model, the Teleglass T3-F Video Eyeglasses, is intended for mounting on an ordinary pair of glasses or sunglasses and . . .
Article posted: 26/05/2007 Read full article...
JanSport HiFi Bag
Lugging your sound system to the beach is no joke and when you get it there you've got problems with sand and spray. JanSport present their solution to this problem in the form of the Recourse - a backpack containing an amplifier and speakers into which you can plug your MP3 player. For control there's a volume wheel on the . . .Article posted: 12/03/2007 Read full article...
Nike makes the Apple iPod your Coach
Nike have teamed up with Apple to use some of the spare processing power in an iPod for recording your work-out session. They've put some a sensor in the left shoe of a pair of trainers which communicates wirelessly to a receiver that you plug into the bottom of your iPod Nano. The sensor detects your every step . . .Article posted: 20/01/2006 Read full article...