Gizmodo: urban tool

Is It A GirlPurse? Is It A ManBag? No, Silly, It's an Urban Performer Unit

AddyDugdale — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:32:00 EDT

Hello, I'm a sexy lady who has been Swarovski-encrusted by my PR people in order to publicize something called the Urban Performer Unit. It's basically a handbag with a little pocket for your iPod which enables you to control your music from the outside of your bag. Nice idea, don't you think? There is, however, one slightly disturbing thing about this Austrian-designed purse:

It's unisex. Yes, all you rugged and slightly dishevelled types (NutBastard, I mean you) fear no more about being an outmoded man in a metrosexual world, for you too can pick up the Urban Performer Unit. Pick It Up, I said, and you will be transformed into a rhinestone cowboy in an instant.

This is my favorite picture. Look! He's using his ManBag to play a geetar riff for RockBand, with nary a bead of sweat to disturb the Swarovski swoosh on his face. I think I'd like to see him use his mascara wand as a drumstick, and tackle Doncha Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me.

This is what the Urban Performer Unit looks like from the inside. There's also room for your other gadgets, like PDA, cellphone, Hadron Collider and so on and so forth. Available in time for Christmas, the black leather purse is priced at just under $520. And perhaps you should know that it's made by a company called Urban Tools. For tools, presumably. [UrbanTool via Talk2MyShirt]

iShirt From Urban Tool Makes You Look Like...

Jason Chen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:30:48 EDT

The iShirt from Urban Tool isn't a joke shirt like the previous iShirt, it's an actual shirt with a pocket designed to hold an iPod. Oh, how we've wished our shirt had pockets. Oh, wait a minute...

The Urban Tool shirt also comes with even goofier-looking loops to thread your iPod headphones through, and generally makes you look like—yes you've been waiting for it—an urban tool. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Unation via Geeksugar]

Grooverider iPod T-Shirt

Travis Hudson — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:34:58 EDT

Yep, another piece of clothing with integrated iPod controls. Seriously, is it really that hard to pull the iPod out of your pocket to change the track or turn up the music?

This poop-brown t-shirt is the work of Urbantool, a Korean retailer. It includes a pocket with an iPod dock connector, and it can supposedly be washed without any problems. Can I get a polo version of this, in pink, preferably with the collar pre-popped? – Travis Hudson

Urbantool to present iPod T-shirt [AVING]