If you really wanted to make your kid’s birthday special, these balloon animals that are more than twice the height of a person are a good starting place. Now you just need to find a clown with big enough lungs. More »
In the past, diagnosing a baby’s fever involved holding the child close while creating a maternal bond. Now, you can tell from across the room! With fashion!! More »
Researchers in England have developed a battery powered textile yarn that can be used to illuminate the clothes of joggers, cyclists, or outdoor workers for protection. This electroluminescent yarn, or “EL yarn,” is technically a multi-layer electroluminescent film composite material made from yarn and dipped in a special light-emitting ink on the inside, with a insulated covering and a second layer of yarn on the outside. When electricity runs through the yarn and ink, an electric field is created that illuminates any point where the outer and inner layers of yarn touch. Naturally, this would have a myriad of non-practical uses, not the least of which would be drawing more attention to the breasts of female club-goers. [TG Daily] More »
Scientists in Taiwan have figured out how to make an oven out of cloth. Here you can see they’ve heated up a couple of pieces of tasty cheese toast in the thing, and the inventive tinkerers at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute say they’ve also baked a chicken in this lightweight and foldable oven that’s conveniently portable, weighing “just a few hundred grams.” There’s just one little problem with this idea: You still have to furnish some serious power to make it go, but still, it might be nice to carry an oven around in your laptop bag, whip it out in the hotel room, plug it in and bake some bread on the go. Its inventors say we’ll be seeing the oven for sale next year. [Texyt] More »
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Okay, short and sweet. Textile Interfaces designed the jacket, while the Lumalive light-up plate came courtesy of Philips. It’s old promo-wear from Philips, but we got hold of one which plays Pac Man. On your chest &mdash well, mine, actually. More »
It all kicks off this week, and apparently the Aussies will be gaining the powerful assistance of new ionised fabric that is set to “deliver ionic energy to the body through a negatively charged magnetic field”. WTF? Apparently it increases oxygen flow to the muscles. Apparently. Larkham reckons it makes you feel cooler, which feels good.
Ireland and South Africa are also Canterbury sponsored teams, but the NZ-based company doesn’t get to supply the All Blacks – they’re sponsored by Adidas. So could this be a big fuck you to their own side if Australia run over them in the last five minutes of the final thanks to that extra bit of energy left in the tank? We’ll know in a few weeks. -Seamus Byrne [The Daily Mail via The Raw Feed] More »
