Seems the world is opening its eyes to the grave problem of pollution facing the world. And this unique Stephanie Sandstrom’s EPA Dress, currently on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium’s 2nd Skin Exhibition is a perfect exemplar of this.
The link between this dress and pollution lies in the fact that it reacts to bad air. Yes, the moment it gets exposed to the polluted air, it starts to shrink and create wrinkles.
An intelligent interpreter of the bad environmental condition, this eco-friendly dress keeps a sad, wrinkled and tired façade when the situation is unbearable and also hazardous.

Now, coming to the technicalities that stimulate these wrinkles and reaction, one can find sensors embedded inside the EPA dress that are intelligent enough to detect the atmospheric conditions thereby creating telling kinks in the fabric’s surface.
So when the EPA dress looks crisp, happy and gay you have all reasons to feel happy as the environment you are breathing in is fine, else watchout!
Via: Topblogposts

If you think your bag is just a dumping sack for your belongings and will always remain the same, then you have all the reasons to thing again. I’m saying this because the bag that you are going to see next is an exceptional combo of utility, fine design and unmatched technology.

The Marilyn Light Bag is far more than just another riveted blue jeans like hand bag. Inside, it comes loaded with a great deal of technology at your rescue whenever you need and wherever you need. It features chic LED lights (that can be chosen from seven wild colours) to brighten up the interior whenever you need to hunt out something.

Now, the Marilyn bag takes the bag technology to the next level of innovation after the solar bag and the music player bag by making this bag GPS enabled to help you keep a track of your belongings so that you neither they get lost or stolen.

This is not where the bag story ends, there’s more to it! You will find a button inside the bag, which works as a panic button that can be pressed whenever you are in some kind of trouble and police help will be available to you, thanks to the GPS-enabled transmitter alerting them to your exact position.

Styles are many and designs are numerous, and the price range starts from $30, which includes the first two months of the GPS rescue/tracking service free.
Via: Dvice/ Lightsbag

This is the coolest multipurpose gadgets that I’ve have ever come across - the watch and a designer cell phone combo! Yes, this big dialed watch hides under its hood a fully functional cell phone. Just flip open the top of the U200i mobile phone wrist watch and you will come across cool multimedia GSM mobile phone. To tempt you a little more, let me tell you that the mobile phone wrist watch is loaded with the best of features that a regular mobile phone as including a 1.3MP digital camera, Bluetooth connectivity, and full media player capabilities.

This is not where the story ends, check the outside of the watch when closed and there waits a cool OLED display that gives you the details about the time, signal strength and battery meter at a glance.
What more? You can even watch tiny little MP4 videos on the 1.5-inch color display, which also give you touchscreen capabilities. Now, I don’t think I can ask for anything more…what do you say?

OK last but not the least, the looks are no less stunning. The retro styled rounded key pad is worth falling in love with. So if you have already started missing the wrist watch phone on your hand, it can e yours for $234.99 USD.
Via: technabob

I’m sure that your head will move in a positive nod if I say that there are times you’re your job demands you to wear those to stand tall and smart in those chic high heels but at the end of the day you wish to come down to earth in a footwear that’s comfortable enough.

Incase this is a concern for you too, then here is a pair of shoes from the house of Camileon Heels that come with the concept of adjustable heels.

Yes, you guess it right, these heels give you the convenience of adjusting them anywhere between 1 1/2 to 3 1/4. The shoes will be available in a number of styles all featuring this heel that makes you comfy enough of a day’s work and sensuous enough for a party.
When you don’t want a heel all you need to do is push back the heel and it gets hidden inside.
After having a look at these adjustable heels and the lighted pioneer shoes, it seems the shoe designers are finally thinking beyond looks and designs and moving on to comfort based fashion.
Price: $210
Via:ChipChick

Hi-tech clothing and wearable technology is becoming a rage these days, and this cool shirt is no exception to this fad after the hug shirt.

Air conditioners fail and air seems like burning when the sun works on your car to hot it up. But if you have this all new Cooling Shirt, you will have a little less to worry.

A perfect accessory for the professional drivers who most of the time are driving on the roads or rather the racing drivers who burn themselves inside those racing cars. The cooling shirt circulates icy chilled water all across your body via a portable refrigeration unit that’s as small as a medium picnic cooler. The pipes run all across your body and keep you cool without making you wet.

And if you want more, in some versions of the Cool Shirt the water can also be transferred to the helmet to keep the head cool as well.

Via: CoolestGadgets

Two kinds of people would love the gadget that I’m going to tell you about next. First category includes those who are in love with comfort and the others who love comfort as well as are crazy about gadgets to the extent of being geeks.

We are talking about these ‘beauty and geek jeans’ designed by Erik De Njis that feature a chic keyboard in front together with built in pair of crotch rocking speakers in the knees.

Add to it an easy to access mouse in the back pocket of the jeans and a (wrongly) located joystick controller feature just behind the front zipper and it makes this jeans a perfect computing solution for the geek guy and geek fashion!

Via: GeekyGadgets

I always have to carry a torch every time I go jogging early in the morning or for that post dinner stroll, just to avoid tripping and falling in the dark. And I’m sure this would be a concern for many like me. So, finally some designers namely Feijun Chen & Bin Zhao have heard the far cry and designed these uber cool running shoes fitted with glowing LEDs on their heads.
are cool as they light up your path as you walk and the best part is that they don’t require any cells but their battery gets charged your kinetic energy as you walk.
Talk about the intensity of light and the sLEDs boasts of lighting up an area five feet in front of you, now that’s enough a brightness to give you a clear idea of the way ahead and keep you safe.
And if that was not enough, there’s another perk not for you but the person following you. Together with the head light, the Pioneer shoes have a stylish green taillight too.
The concept seems really helpful both in terms of utility as well as cost-effectiveness.
Via: YankoDesign

Take a full dose of Swarovski’s finest expertise in crystal, a considerable portion of Signity gem’s bedazzlement with he design element of John Pszeniczny and what you get is this uber cool time machine called the Luna watch.
A masterpiece finding its root in fine crystal work, shining stainless steel teamed with a Spessartite Garnet, the Luna Watch appears as an enigmatic crystal ball.
The touching of the tow contact points that makes the time visible in flash of light I a digital formay gives an illusion of all of it floating magically inside the crystal.
A subtle luminescence and a lighted luster, the watch glows like a charismatic bracelet having some supernatural powers to break-open into the world of magic. A beautiful matrimony between function and aesthetics, the Luna watch makes a perfect time machine as well as a chic and stylish fashion accessory. Wear this and you won’t need any chunky piece to attract attention, for the Luna watch is already much of a headturner in itself.

Via: Yankodesign

Here’s a dream come true for all those women who are missing the magic of a warm “hug” due to any possible reason. Here comes the “Hug Shirt” which will pamper you with an electronically generated hug, whenever you feel the need.

This will be done with the help of your mobile phone. All you need to do is buy two of these and give one to your partner who is away. Now, whenever you crave for a hug just SMS to your partner and the vital characteristics of your hug will reach him/ her and his shirt will give him/her the desired hug to your partner.

Crew at CuteCircuit analysed the most critical hug intensity points out of upper arms, upper back, waistline, neck, shoulders, and hips. The shirt features “hugging output actuators” on all these points to produce a hug which is as natural as an original one in not just intensity of your hug but warmth as well.

on rechargeable batteries, hug shirt will be priced at $300 as soon as it hits the markets this holiday season.

Via: Talk2myshirt

Today NTT DoCoMo unveiled two compact smart phone based on the Windows Mobile 6 operating system from Fujitsu and HTC. “F1100″ (L), is produced by Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, and “HT1100″, produced by Taiwan’s electrinocs maker HTC in Tokyo on 30 August 2007.