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Minimalist Wipe Shirt Keeps Screens, and Your Look, Clean

by Ben Deitz on March 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM

Having a highly smudged screen on your PDA or smartphone is like having a small stain on your your brand new shirt; no matter how nice, the whole package ends up tainted. Carrying around screen-cleaning wipes isn't an attractive option, so that's where Japanese design company FIFT comes into the picture.

Piloted by the husband and wife team of Katsunari and Ami Igarashi, FIFT has created the aptly named Wipe Shirt. The plain white shirt, which can fit any office or social situation, features an integrated microfiber pad designed for cleaning screens. As is rarely the case with other pieces of "functional" clothing, we'd wear the fashionable Wipe Shirt regardless of whether or not our screen needed constant care.

The Wipe Shirt comes in two variations; one with the microfiber pad in the shirttail, and one with the pad on the cuff. It retails for about $150 (¥13,650), and is, sadly, only available in Japan. [From: Engadget]

Tags: cleaning, fashion, geek chic, GeekChic, novelty, screens, smartphone, smudge-free, top, weird

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