Tag: WEARABLES

Two of the most popular toys amongst DIY enthusiasts right now are the Arduino and the Microsoft Kinect. So what happens when you combine them? Probably the most impressive hack of either device we've ever seen. Created by Michael Zöllner and Stephan Huber from the University of Konstanz, NAVI (or Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired) allows the blind to easily navigate an ...

Lost remote control woes, begone! Japanese electronics giant NEC announced this week that it's developed a way to let users control a variety of electronics simply by touching some skin. No implants are necessary; a wristband with acceleration sensors (similar to what makes your smartphone and Wiimote so awesome) transforms the user's arm into a seven-part controller, with each area ...

During this weekend's NFL Combine, some prospects will wear an Under Armour shirt equipped with an accelerometer as well as heart and breathing monitors. According to Wired, the E39 shirt is made from the same material as Under Armour's other compression gear, and weighs less than 4.5 ounces -- even with the bright yellow puck stitched just below the chest. In addition to the accelerometer, the ...

Customized kicks aren't just for the cool kids. For proof, check out these customized Nike Dunks inspired by Firefox, Twitter and Google. The colorful hi-tops are designed by Daniel Reese, who sells a number of other nerd-themed kicks at his site Brass Monki. Most of his custom sneakers, which are available in limited runs, retail for between $200 and $250. Honestly, that's a small price to pay ...

While much of the tech world's attention to eyewear has focused on creating non-dorky 3-D glasses, Dr. Ronald Blum has been developing an astounding -- and potentially revolutionary -- set of hi-tech specs. Now, after more than a decade of research and advancement, Dr. Blum's PixelOptics firm appears set to release emPower, "the world's first electronic focusing eyewear." These loaded, ...

Call us scaredy cats, but there's no way we'd follow in Mark Visser's footsteps. As part of a film, the adventure athlete rode a 30-foot wave off the coast of Maui in the dead of night, illuminated by the moon... oh, and his LED-bedecked life vest and surfboard. That's right: that blinking thing in the surf is a person, not a boat. Check out the video after the break. ...

Wearing gold fronts and jewels in your teeth is so Aughts. The 2010s call for a thoroughly more modern oral adornment. Enter Japanese fashion designers Mr. Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, who have created LED inserts that are worn behind the teeth. The light-up smiles are now being used as part of a marketing push by Laforet Harajuku, a popular department store in Tokyo, and are becoming a much ...

We're not sure who would want to wear their iPhone -- or, for what reason -- but the company behind the Vyne figures that there must be someone out there who wants to do it. The Vyne is a flexible plastic strap with a clip on the end for holding your iPhone or iPod touch. Bend the plastic strap to fit around something -- like, say, your neck or a favorite household pet -- and you can relax and ...

Companies are working hard to change the perception of active-shutter 3-D specs as bulky and unsightly, so it comes as no surprise that Samsung enlisted design firm Silhouette to create the world's lightest 3-D frames. The glasses, which weigh 28 grams (about 0.06 pounds), house all of the electronics in compartments at the back, charge wirelessly and turn on and off automatically by detecting ...

Texting or pinching on a touchscreen in the bitter winter cold is nearly impossible while wearing traditional gloves, and most of the dedicated winter hand apparel does a poor job of actually keeping our mitts warm. Digits conductive pins, designed for use with knit material, forgo the custom gloves for simple silicone caps that can be attached to the finger end of your favorite pair of gloves for ...

No matter what side of the body-scanner fence you call home -- the Righteous Nation of Hands Off Our Junk, or the Republic of Poor TSA Workers Forced to Look at and/or Fondle Your Bits -- you should now know that the saturation point has been reached (even before National Opt Out Day!), and that we have entered the realm of self-parody. How can we tell? Well, now the tinfoil hat inventors have ...

Share Charlie Bucket is a bit of a star in the hacked crafts crowd, having debuted his Fluid Dress at the Maker Faire festival in California last year. Yet, showing the dress in its most-perfected form, Bucket's just-released video is time-lapsed and edited together to demonstrate how beautiful (and fluid) the Fluid Dress could actually be. Composed of over 600 feet of knitted tubing and a ...

Looking for the perfect wristwatch to complement your LSD-laced lifestyle? Still searching for a Christmas gift for your chronically late delivery guy? Look no further than Tokyoflash's new 'Wasted' LED watch -- a crunchy chronometer designed to simulate a chemically heightened, psychedelic state of mind (or so we're told). Priced at $85, this USB-rechargeable watch features a sleek plastic ...

Bringing a smile to a geek's face is easy: take several things they love (especially things they love ironically), and jam them together in some ridiculous way that's both incredibly novel and completely useless. It's a flawless formula that leads to the creation of things like this tweeting Snuggie (or Slanket if that's your bag). The recipe is simple. Take one cheap piece of infomercial-famous ...

A new iPhone accessory promises to bring mind-control capabilities to cell phones, signaling the future of laziness handhelds. The PLX's XWave headset sets you back $100 bones, but lets you control several apps with your brain by reading electrical signals via a sensor placed on your forehead. Upon its October launch, the XWave will work with a few first-party apps that teach users to levitate an ...