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Japanese Anti-Flu Suit Lets You Get Sneezed On With Impunity

Adam Frucci — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:40:00 +0000

A Japanese company called Haruyama Trading Co. has developed a suit that supposedly protects the wearer from the H1N1 hysteria virus. Finally!

It does this by being coated with titanium dioxide, which apparently reacts to light and kills the virus when it comes in contact with it. Unfortunately, you don’t get the flu through your torso, you get it through your mucus membranes such as your nose and mouth. And unless you plan on wearing the suit jacket over your face, I’m not sure how much good it’ll do you.

But hey, at least it’ll give you peace of mind, right? And when we’re battling a flu strain that appears to be just about as dangerous as the normal flu, but from goddamned pigs, we’ve got to take extreme measures. [Telegraph]

T-Shirt Shows Exactly Who You Really Are

Jesus Diaz — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:00:00 +0000

I know this girl who is made of sugar, spice and everything nice. But the rest of us are made out of things like oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, germanium, cobalt, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, yttrium or scandium. Not kidding.

I’m so getting this human ingredients t-shirt. Or, as I call it, the reality check t-shirt: Yes, my friends, we were only stellar dust, and stellar dust we will be. Hopefully after I eat my Sunday brunch pancakes. [Mysoti via Geekologie]

The Centerfold T-Shirt Works Exactly As Advertised

Mark Wilson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Thousands of years of clothing technology have culminated to this one moment, a critical crossroads of fabric and fapping.

The Centerfold T-Shirt, available soon for $US30, displays Miss April in 1/4 splendour—that is, until you undo two buttons to spew forth a tapestry of nudity fit for a king (or just a person with very little taste and/or restraint). Available soon in a limited edition run of just 100 shirts, it’s hard to remember the status of fashion before this watershed moment in textiles—admittedly because we hadn’t been paying this close of attention. [Owltooth (NSFW) via Fashionably Geek (NSFW)]

“This Game Sucks” T-Shirt Shows Mario Playing The Game We Play

Adam Frucci — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:40:00 +0000

You’re so right, Mario. But to be fair, you’ve got to play the game a lot more conservatively when you only have one life and there are no 1 ups. [Threadless via Laughing Squid via The Daily What]

10 Of Your Nerdiest T-Shirts

Sean Fallon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I asked you to show us your most shamefully nerdy t-shirt—and you delivered. There were tons of great ones, but in the end I picked 10 that just made me laugh.

Troy Foster: One my math club at uni sold. The back said check out this asymptote with a graph of y=-abs(1/x)

armyofchuckness: When time travelling worlds collide.

VSyris: This is my best shirt by far, though I cant seem to find it. I think the GF stole it.

rms2219: Bought this from shirt.woot about a year ago…love it.

calameda: This is mine from Tee Fury.

Gawd: I have a few but this one always makes people smile. A couple of Stormtroopers taking a urinal break.

Liquidus: Two

David Vong: yup
GItEmSteveDave_Deal: @David Vong: I have this one as well. For those that don’t know, it says Kick Me.

OG Phenix

Scuba Steve: You nerds be slippin.

First Macintosh Shirt Is Stylish In Its Simplicity

Adam Frucci — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:20:00 +0000

Print Liberation has a new “Great Moments of the 20th Century” series of shirts, and the latest is of a gigantic Macintosh. Perfect for displaying your roots and less likely to get you fired than some other options. [Print Liberation]

If Knowing Is Half The Battle, What’s The Other Half? Lasers.

Mark Wilson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:40:00 +0000

This t-shirt investigates the oft overlooked “other half” of the battle. So if knowing is half the battle, what’s the other half? Lasers. 25% red. 25% blue. We”ll all sleep better having reconciled this age-old conundrum. $US20 [Nerduo]

Bongo Shirt Gives Air Drums More Meaning

Nick Broughall — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:09:04 +0000

At the moment, I’m addicted to playing the drums for Pearl Jam’s Ten on Rock Band. Addicted. Even when I’m stuck working, I’m banging out a sort of quasi-rhythm on my desk, my steering wheel or anything else that lands beneath my hands. With this shirt, I’d actually get some proper drum sounds.

There are four drums printed on the shirt, and each one makes a different bongo sound when you tap it with your hands. Sure, not too many Rock Band tracks actually play the bongos, but you get the idea.

The shirt runs on four AAA batteries, and has a built-in speaker. It’s machine washable, so long as you take out the electronic bits, and it costs $60 from Latestbuy.

[Latestbuy]

2UNFOLD Laptop Bag Is Too Attractive For You Or Your Computer

Mark Wilson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Your MacBook Air or whatever is a sharp machine, sure. But it’s not timeless, handcrafted Italian leather that’s transformable into one of eight different styles.

The 2UNFOLD laptop works as an urban briefcase, shoulder bag, safecase, rucksack, leather courier, canvas courier (it’s reversible!), leather clutch or canvas clutch. No, I don’t know what all those variations mean either, but the link at the end of this post contains handy photographs.

In vertical modes, the 2UNFOLD holds laptops up to 17 inches. In horizontal modes, it’s suited for 13-inch notebooks. But either way, it makes for a zippy, pockety, and stylish bag that’s a bit too beautiful for us to toss haphazardly onto the airport floor. $US483.

(Sorry if that price part stings a bit.) [2UNFOLD via bbGadgets]

Apparently Making Bacon Bits Is Just Like Playing Space Invaders

Mark Wilson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0000

We’ve all underestimated the power of the recent bacon movement. Hop on this meme while it’s still hot (and crispy-smokey-delicious) with this $US10 shirt from woot!. And here we always thought bacon bits were made of soy. [shirt.woot! via geekologie]