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EPA Dress Wrinkles Up to Show it's a Bad Air Day

Currently showing at the 2nd Skin Exhibition at San Francisco's Exploratorium is this piece of smart clothing by designer Stephanie Sandstrom. Inside it hide a bunch of sensors that measure the nearby air quality, along with drivers that can adjust the fabric. The idea is that on bad air days the dress detects the problem, and adjusts itself to look all rumpled and messy, and raising environmental awareness. Does that wrinkling mean it raises the hemline? I'm not sure... but if it did, that might work to take your mind off the damage being done to your health by all those airborne pollutants. [Inhabitat]

8:56 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,052 views, 31 comments

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Here's a way better idea: Clothing that gets transparent depending on how clean the air is. You know, with clothes that wrinkle depending on how bad the air is, in ladies like that on the pic, I just might be drawn more »

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IOGEAR Fined $208,000 By EPA For Germ-Free Mice Claims

IOGEAR's Germless Portable Laser Mouse isn't quite so germless after all, which is why the Environmental Protection Agency levied a fine of $208,000 on the company for "unsubstantiated public health claims regarding unregistered products, and their ability to control germs and pathogens." In other words, these things aren't killing any germs, and you probably shouldn't be buying them in hopes that they will. And as a result of the fines, IOGEAR's also stopped claiming that their germ-killing mice (now just "mice") kill germs. [IOGEAR via Crave via Gadgetell]

12:00 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Jason Chen
1,578 views, 10 comments

Latest by barfoo: This was probably part of a bigger recent case in which a lot of companies were caught up: a lot of these products are coated in a surface made with silver nanoparticles, which supposedly make for a very inhospitable environment more »