Gadgets
Please Touch Pillow Brings Dreams In Vivid Hypercolour
Posted by Sean Fallon at 6:00 AM on November 13, 2008
Remember Hypercolour shirts? The heat-sensitive pigment made for an interesting gimmick—but the whole color-changing effect was ruined after a few runs in the wash. I would expect the same thing to happen with these "please touch" lambskin pillows—except this time you would be out $US160. Do people really put their pillows in the washing machine anyway? [Coliseum Shop via Outblush via Geekologie]

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DukeOliver
Posted 8:23 AM 13/11/08
Because I want to see what I look like after 8 hours of drooling sleep
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arras
Posted 8:22 AM 13/11/08
if the pillow was placed on top of their hands (palms up) it would create that effect
I had to think about it for a few to figure it out :P
arras
timak
Posted 8:19 AM 13/11/08
Whoever touched that pillow is a freak of nature. The thumbs are on the wrong side of the hands.
timak
iamnotafish
Posted 8:12 AM 13/11/08
If I remember right, the worst part about Global Hypercolor t-shirts was how you'd end up with pit-colours. So not only did you have pit-stains, it was now fluorescent yellow to highlight your "issue."
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lpranal
Posted 8:35 AM 13/11/08
@lpranal: er... oops. that was totally not meant to be a comment, I was testing out the Stupid Filter on some random stuff and accidentally pasted the wrong window. Hm.
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lpranal
Posted 8:34 AM 13/11/08
OMG for years I have been in teh dark, thanks… I found the Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet a god sent
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timak
Posted 8:28 AM 13/11/08
@arras:
Damn you're right.
I want one of these just so I could place the pillow on my lap whilst nekked and show it to my wife.
timak
jdbaile3
Posted 8:26 AM 13/11/08
@timak:
their hands were underneath it, holding it as you might hold a bowl with both hands.
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Necoras
Posted 9:13 AM 13/11/08
@timak: No, he's wrong. Look at the cool spots in the middle. You don't have that gap on the back of your hands, just the opposite actually. The comments above are correct, the pillow was held in the hands, not pressed down onto.
Necoras
WaffleTeamStrike
Posted 8:56 AM 13/11/08
@WaffleTeamStrike: of course im pretty sure no Americans hold the Crag or one of these mythical shirts.
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WaffleTeamStrike
Posted 8:55 AM 13/11/08
They made cool shirts that did this ..in like 1992 i think for Nickelodeon G.U.T.S i think.
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DeadWriter
Posted 8:53 AM 13/11/08
Is there a woman that thinks that Hypercolor shirts were a good idea? I sort of remember a lot of embarrassment among some of my friends.
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DeadWriter
Posted 8:52 AM 13/11/08
@timak: I'd rather agree with you, of course the simpler answer is that the person hugged the pillow from behind.
DeadWriter
LastVigilante
Posted 9:43 AM 13/11/08
My normal pillows already do this when the fabric reacts to the salicylic acid in the acne cream I apply to my face every night. Only, in that case, my face's profile is permanently bleached into the fabric. This allows a constant reminder of Mother-Nature's cruel, tormenting joke of never letting me forget the awkward, prepubescent terror that was my teenage existence.
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darthuv
Posted 10:29 AM 13/11/08
What exactly about this application of Hypercolor makes them think this is a good idea?
darthuv
twoeightnine
Posted 10:40 AM 13/11/08
$160?
1: Buy tshirt [www.changemeclothing.com]
2: Turn into pillowcase
3: Profit!
Holy shit I figured out step 2!
twoeightnine
deepee
Posted 12:05 PM 13/11/08
I remember that for my birthday one year I got a big "Hypercolor" (didn't know the name at the time) body pillow made by MTV of all people. I think it stopped fading colors after a while and I never washed it but I've always wanted another. Not for $160 though :(
deepee
deusdiabolus
Posted 6:32 PM 14/11/08
Since we're bringing up thermoreactive clothing again...
A company called Body Faders claims to have improved the dye process in a way that will allow the color-changing effect to survive repeated washing and drying. Change Me Clothing is linked from their site as a distributor, but the Body Faders site has polo shirts for sale. Color changing polo shirts...who needs popped collars?
But the pillows above are pretty cool, too.
deusdiabolus