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Avi's Yarmulke Version 2.0: Now With Scrolling LEDs

The last time we caught up with tech analyst Avi Greengart, he sported a yarmulke emblazoned with crocheted gadgets. Now he's put his money where his mouth keppe is and made his newest yarmulke a gadget itself. It is loaded with LEDs that scroll his name—and presumably messages to the man upstairs, or anything else he can dream up. I have one pressing question: Does he turn it off on Friday night? [Avi Greengart]

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Official Indiana Jones Fedora Available Now For Nerds Everywhere

The reason that the official Indiana Jones Fedora is available on Think Geek is that only geeks think that they can pull off wearing a fedora in the year 2008. The only fedora you (us) nerds should stick to is Red Hat's version, leaving Indiana Jones' to the still handsome but greying Harrison Ford. If you really do want to pick up your own version for some down-home sexy play, it's $99. Everything's in stock except for X-Large and XX-Large, further proving our point that only overweight nerds will buy and wear this outdoors. [Think Geek]

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2CLight Hat: Solar-Powered Handsfree Lighting at Night

At first glance at the 2CLight cap you'd think "oh come on... who'd use that?" — but then you'd think about fishermen and other outdoorsy-types who'd benefit from some hands-free lighting, and maybe you'd reconsider. Its flexible solar cell charges a small battery up during the day, and gives out about 2 hours of max-brightness from the twin LEDs in the brim, or 36 hours at low setting. According to the website blurb it's "not a cap with lights," ohoho no: it's a "tightly integrated, highly advanced, microprocessor controlled solar lighting technology" system. Hmm. So, this cap with lights is available in three color schemes for $35. [2CLight via Talk2MyShirt]

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Knitted Gas Mask Helps Cyclists Avoid Cotton-Wool Smog

For those who are about to knit, we salute you—especially if you make woolly hat 'n' gas mask combos for your friends to wear on their bike ride to work. Not sure whether it would work in the event of a mustard gas attack, but it works for me. File this alongside the R2-D2 beanie and Darth Vader bonnet and see the full-frontal below. More »

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Pong Helmet Designed for Idiots, People Who Like Pong

If you are retarded and need to wear a helmet around to keep that noggin of yours safe, you might as well make it entertaining for others around you. I guess. I'm not really sure what other uses there are for this except perhaps as a way for construction workers to pass time on their lunch breaks. In any case, this is a hard hat with an LED display on the front that plays Pong and displays messages for some reason. Of course! [Instructables]

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Darth Vader Drinks Guinness, Wears a Bonnet

Right now it's a bit hot for one of these, but we salute Lady Linoleum, who made this Darth Vader helmet out of eight Guinness cans and some black wool.
[Monster Crochet via Craftzine]

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Head Lite Cap Makes You Look Like an Oncoming Train

Now you can have a hands-free headlight to light your path instead of cursing the darkness with the Head Lite Cap from Lite and Motion, a new take on the miner's headlight. Instead of that old-fashioned flashlight beam, now there's a super-bright LED positioned at the top of your forehead for hands-free lighting convenience. More »

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SkyKap Advisor GPS Golf Cap Whispers Sweet Distances in Your Ear

The SkyKap Advisor is a GPS-enabled golf cap controlled by voice commands. First you plug it into your PC's USB port and download course maps from SkyKap website. Then you wear the cap out on the links, asking it for information about distance to things such as the pin, water hazards and fairway boundaries, and it whispers the info into your ear. More »

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Nike Hatphones Holds the Nano, Keep Noggin' Toasty

Nike has done the unthinkable and invented a word for their latest product. The Nike Hatphones is a cold-weather cap, or beanie, that includes integrated earphones and a pocket that holds the iPod Nano. There is also a mesh area that allows you to control the iPod clickwheel through the cap. The Hatphones cap is available in black, grey, blue or red and will go for a hefty $60. More »

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Muttering Hat Amplifies the Voices Inside Your Head

Can't get rid of the voices inside of your head? Well, why not make them louder (and look like a mental patient in the process). Created by Kate Hartman, the Muttering Hat is a goofy-looking hat made up of hacked MP3 players, headphones, and microphones. One form of the hat lets you listen to pre-recorded mumblings as you go about your day-to-day tasks. (Cause you know, listening to music is so boring). The other version, puts your inner thoughts on speakerphone, so as you mumble to yourself, anyone near you can strap off one of the hat's giant ear balls and listen in on what you're saying. In other words, you'll never be able to silently judge someone again. And that in itself is reason enough to pass on this hat. More »

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Ginity Carbon Fiber Caps

Now you can wear a piece of Formula One technology on your head with Ginity's baseball cap, whose visor is made of carbon fiber composite (pictured at top). If that's not quite fancy enough for you, get yours with a silver or gold fiber brim. More »

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Solar Radio Visor: For Dorktastic Martians Only

What could be more practical than a Solar AM/FM Radio Visor powered by the sun? It just makes sense: a visor is supposed to keep the sun out of your eyes, and while it's doing so, it sucks up all that solar energy it's blocking from your delicate peepers. More »

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iSoundCap: iPod and Cables, Tucked Away Up Top

Getting fed up with all those wires hanging off your iPod shuffle or nano? Now you can hold that player in a perfectly-sized compartment stitched into the iSoundCap. The hat also has a sleeve that stores all the wires leading to and from that iPod, leaving only your earbuds dangling down to your ears in just the right position. More »

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Scat Hat

Not sure if this is a trend or what, but this guy doesn't seem too happy about wearing this poopy-looking hat. Maybe this scat-hat trend will spread to Wisconsin and beyond, supplanting the cheesehead craze and taking us all to a new level of discourse. More »

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iPod Shuffle Beanie

As an avid iPod fan and beanie wearer I shall give this product a seal of approval. This acrylic beanie stores the Shuffle and the cords neatly inside. And because the beanie will cover the ears of most wearers, then you will get a barrage of people talking to you without knowing you can't hear them. I love it when that happens. It is available in multiple colors for $22 through Pakatun. More »

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Scary, But Not Fun Scary

The Taiko no Tasujin Hat is frightening in a way that it's makers certainly did not intend. Even on Halloween, there's something positively nightmarish about a head enveloped by a giant plushy eye, and the look on this gentleman's face only confirms one's suspicion that that wearing one will make you go quite mad. More »

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Pac-Man Hat - Makes You Chicken Fried!

I don't know. This is probably about 20 years old but that picture is a classic. You can buy this hat, which causes your face to get really oily and red, for $39 but I think if you printed out the photo and put it in your wallet and just kind of looked at it every few days you'd get more of a chuckle. Novelty hats never work with the ladies. That's why I stopped wearing that huge Cat in the Hat chapeau emblazoned with "Show Us Your Tits" to church. [Thanks, Jeromy] More »