Tag Archives: wearables

Transformer headphones: Music in disguise

How many times have you wanted to wear Transformers on your ears? None you say? Well that’s just weird. These Transformer headphones allow you to wear your choice of Frenzy or Ramble on your ears. We just hope they don’t transform into a bull horn or something while on our ears. The headphones come with a retractable cord for easy ...

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Pinkish Screen of Death: Most realistic Windows tattoo

This tattoo would probably rank as one of the geekiest tattoos ever if it had been done months ago, but what can we say, if you snooze you lose. This particular tattoo displays the old Windows 98 blue screen of death error message, across an entire arm. Ex-Microsoft executive Peter Moore would be happy with this tattoo now that he ...

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hipDisk: Move your music to the hips

Perhaps the most undignified musical instrument of all time, the hipDisk allows the wearer to play chromatic scales and basic melodies using their flexibility and hip swinging speed. All using your hips and torso to create music. Using soft switches strategically placed around the disk, these switches signal what notes to play as you swivel your buttocks. Much like the ...

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USB flash drive wrist bands

Brando, perhaps the king of unique USB gadgets, presents this cool USB flash drive bracelet. The USB port acts as both the data transferrer, and the bracelet clasp. The wrist band is water shockproof and moisture proof, so you don’t have to worry about losing your data unless, say, you drown in the ocean. This is actually really cool because ...

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AHKY: Your wrist knows more languages than you do

I think interpreters cause more problems than they do help. You always get the feeling that for some words, they’re kind of making it up. You can hear that little sly “Uhh…” added in before these guessing moments. The AHKY (Arabic for “speak”) translation device plans to help military officials communicate with their captives allies, to assure them that they ...

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Recycle different: Soda can jewelry

To recycle a soda can, you usually just throw it away into one of those government mandated recycling bins. How about a creative way to use your empty cans? Look no further than Etsy. Available are these Dr. Pepper Earrings ($7) and the Mountain Dew Bracelet ($8), which can also double as a necklace for midgets. These would make a ...

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Wearable coolness: Orbit bracelet

The Orbit Bracelet is a neat piece of wearable gear designed by Neko Design. The bracelet gives an appearance of floating around your wrist throughout the day. The bracelet doesn’t slide around your arm all day either, like most others. The Orbit keeps its position thanks to silicone-based elastic webbing which holds on to your skin, without cutting off circulation ...

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Hands-free video recording: So, uhh, what to do with these hands?

This cool concept design would bring us one step closer to living in a Star Trek-esque world, if only it were a real device. The hands-free recorder fits around the back of your neck, recording every sight and sound that you might see or hear. A big worry might be how much memory a camera like this would have. The ...

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Science creates the bionic man

In 1995, Peng Shulin was in a catastrophic accident. As a result of this accident, Peng’s body was cut in half by a truck, and yet, he miraculously survived. After being bed-ridden for over a decade, Peng has been given a second chance at walking with a new bionic suit made by the fine people at the China Rehabilitation Research ...

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