Fashion

New Chinese Fashion Is All About Laptops

In Nanjing this week, a bevvy of aspiring fashion models strutted their stuff in a fashion show filled with laptops, skintight circuitboard body stockings, and throbbing digital backdrops. I’m not sure if the woman in the first image is deliberately falling, or is trying to portray a failing video card. Either way, the fact that…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 2

The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby

OK, who gave Brando the rhinestones? With Valentine’s Day a little over a month away, we’re all scratching our heads as to how to get our loved ones jewelry that we can actually play with. Luckily, the $33 USB Thumb Drive Bracelet showed up just in time to ship from overseas. Hiding a discreet 8GB…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 31

Apple Tqualizer Will Either Get You Hugged or Punched in the Chest

Your standard animated equalizer t-shirt is generally considered obnoxious enough. But when you stick an Apple logo on the front, well, it’s a statement that can’t be ignored. https://gizmodo.com/t-qualizer-equalizer-t-shirt-video-210857 As clearly explained on Jetsobox, the $45 Apple Tqualizer "rocks and looks the business !" with a sound-sensitive, multi-color equalizer display. Powered by four AAA batteries, the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 29

New Superman Fashion Spread Will Give You The Power Of Projectile Vomit

If you thought Superman’s stock couldn’t fall any lower after Superman Returns, then you haven’t seen the new issue of Vogue. Batman never would have done such a cheesy fashion spread. Gallery below. [Models.com]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 26

iCap MP3 Player: Genuine Disruptive Technology At Last

While headphones are a serious cause of hearing damage, there are alternatives. And one such alternative is the iCap MP3 player—an MP3 player in a baseball cap that never bows to social pressures. The $100 iCap features two speakers with SRS WOW technology that play music from a MicroSD expandable integrated 1GB MP3 player or…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 18

An Unfulfilled Future of Funny Hats and Breast-Inspired Breastplates

In the 1960s, fashion designers offered their predictions for what space age fashion might look like. What they came up with was reflective clothing, towering headgear, and a few items not safe for work. The German fashion television show Paris Aktuell frequently featured work from futurist fashion designers such as Pierre Cardin (he of the…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 15

T-Shirt Explodes Keytar and Other Vintage Music Tech

Last week we admired the technically and artistically gorgeous Gameboy Exploded shirt. This week, we see even more of our favorite retro technologies anatomically explored in t-shirt form. https://gizmodo.com/the-gameboy-explodes-all-over-this-beautiful-t-shirt-5102846 Exploded Explosion, $10, features some of the most iconic musical gadgets of the past along with a taste of the internal circuitry that made them work.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 11

The GameBoy Explodes All Over this Beautiful T-Shirt

Just when I think I’m done with t-shirts, they pull me back in. And Exploded GameBoy by gamepaused is just enough to thwart my vision for a respectable wardrobe for a little longer. I haven’t disassembled a GameBoy as of late, but the deconstruction appears anatomically correct, even making room for the screw holes embedded…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 5

Japan Cellphone App Gives Fashion Advice Based on Your Face

Japan cellphone app maker J-Magic has released a useful update to its celebrity look-a-like app, “Kao Cheki.” Called “Shoubu Co-de Cheki,” it offers fashion advice based on mobile snapshots of your face. Anyone want to make this for the iPhone? “Shoubu” is a slang term for the type of clothing a woman wears to land…

Tech News Elaine Chow Dec 4

Prada II Phone Comes With a Swanky Little Bluetooth Watch

Apparently it was optimistic to expect Prada to understand the difference between a fashion accessory and a phone accessory, because now look what’s happened: Prada and LG have announced the Prada Link, a Bluetooth watch that pulls text messages and your call information from the Prada II phone. To be honest though, it doesn’t look…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 19

Chocolate Superhero Costumes Leave You Craving Sweet Justice

When designing your superhero outfit, it’s important to select the proper material. After spandex and chrome, chocolate leaps to mind immediately. Sure it’s tasty, but will it protect you in battle? Last weekend, a group of pastry chefs took on crimefighting fashion’s ultimate challenge: cooking up cocoa costumes that look as sweet as they taste.Sixty…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 11

Dealzmodo: Star Wars Hoodies for $59

A long time ago in a galaxy…this galaxy, actually, we went a little nuts over these Star Wars hoodies by Marc Ecko. The only catch was that they cost $98. Well for today only, everything at the store is 40% off, including these two fantastic sweatshirts. That brings the price to right around $59—still expensive,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 7

NES Air Max Sneakers Are Dignified Even If Geriatric

They aren’t exactly what we pictured, but we can’t deny that Nintendo and Nike’s dual venture NES Air Max sneakers do invoke fond memories of the drab Nintendo Entertainment System. Featuring two tones of gray and a stripe of muted reddishness, only the keen sneaker aficionado will know notice the subtle reference to the Start…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 6

3D Knit Dresses Let You Go Mecha Chic

Just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean you can’t dress like a Transformer. Fashion designer Sandra Blacklund creates three-dimensional knitwear in unusual and elaborate shapes that turns the wearer into a living sculpture. And her latest line is clearly robot-influenced, so you can act out your wildest mecha warrior fantasies.These items come from Blacklund’s 2009…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 4

Sweater Dryer or 8-Pack Alien Colonic?

The clothing in the shot gives it away, but if we were to see the Sweater Dryer with Fan in another context, we might think it a…well we don’t really know what we’d think it was. Heck, even in this shot, we assume the device is blowing air at that sweater. For all we know,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 4

Bar Trek: The Next Inebriation

It’s an unfortunate turn of events when Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Sulu don’t get along in real life. But we’d like to believe that through the magic of t-shirts and a night out drinking with the buddies that we can solve most any of the world’s problems. Bar Trekkin’ celebrates the original Star Trek cast…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 25

Every Boy Needs a Killer Tentacled Robot (Tee)

As parents and potential parents, we want better lives for our children. If we drank high fructose corn syrup, we want our children turning back to sugar cane. If we smoked crack and flagellated the occasional trucker for money, we want our children having access to the purist ADHD pharmaceuticals that our Blue Cross coverage…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 24

These Steampunk Goggles Really Are Too Nice

When is a pair of steampunk goggles too nice to be just a pair of steampunk goggles? How about when the metal components have been swapped out for solid milled titanium that’s then coated in golden colored titanium nitride? How about when the goggles feature irises that can be opened and closed through independent sliders,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 22

Back to the Future II Jacket on eBay

We’ve already gotten the 2015 Nikes, and now Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II jacket is for sale on eBay. It’s not the actual film prop and it sadly lacks Auto Dry, but this leather recreation will have to be close enough until the world’s inventors get their act together and make us the…

Movies Mark Wilson Oct 22

LG Prada II Officially Decent, Expensive and Faaaabulous

LG and Prada have just sent out a pre-announcement for the upcoming Prada II, sequel to the companies’ first touchscreen lovechild that was released well over a year ago. Stand-out features include a 5MP camera, FM radio, 7.2Mbps HSDPA 850/2100 (hey, North American importers) and Wi-Fi. The rest of the tech specifications pretty much match…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 13

New Chinese Fashion Is All About Laptops

The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby

Apple Tqualizer Will Either Get You Hugged or Punched in the Chest

New Superman Fashion Spread Will Give You The Power Of Projectile Vomit

iCap MP3 Player: Genuine Disruptive Technology At Last

An Unfulfilled Future of Funny Hats and Breast-Inspired Breastplates

T-Shirt Explodes Keytar and Other Vintage Music Tech

The GameBoy Explodes All Over this Beautiful T-Shirt

Japan Cellphone App Gives Fashion Advice Based on Your Face

Prada II Phone Comes With a Swanky Little Bluetooth Watch

Chocolate Superhero Costumes Leave You Craving Sweet Justice

Dealzmodo: Star Wars Hoodies for $59

NES Air Max Sneakers Are Dignified Even If Geriatric

3D Knit Dresses Let You Go Mecha Chic

Sweater Dryer or 8-Pack Alien Colonic?

Bar Trek: The Next Inebriation

Every Boy Needs a Killer Tentacled Robot (Tee)

These Steampunk Goggles Really Are Too Nice

Back to the Future II Jacket on eBay

LG Prada II Officially Decent, Expensive and Faaaabulous

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