fashion
Design
Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
4:20PM Rosa Golijan | 24,000 full-colour, super-thin LEDs, 4000 Swarovski crystals and enough iPod batteries to keep everything glowing for about an hour. This picture doesn’t do the Galaxy Dress justice, but the video comes close. More »
Random Stuff
The Fashion Icons Of Wearable Computing
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | I was wondering what Aimee Mullins was running from, and now I suspect that it might’ve been these fellows. I’m sure they’re great people, being a part of MIT’s Wearable Computing team and all, but I would run too. More »
Design
Vitruvian Voltron
5:40AM Mark Wilson | If only Leonardo da Vinci had 1980s cartoons as his muse, it would be Voltron representing Man’s innate tie to geometry and architecture. Live in that better world by purchasing this $US18 t-shirt or sniffing more Crayola. [ThinkGeek via RedFerret]
Design
Space Invaders Autopsy T-Shirt
5:40PM Jesus Diaz | Mark showed you how Space Invaders really look like from the outside. Now it’s time to get the scalpel and look for the three stomachs. For $US18, you can play doctor too. [Threadless via Likecool] More »
Gadgets
MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads And More
1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway’s premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT’s Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out. More »
Design
Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth The Inconvenience
1:27AM Mark Wilson | Ignore the site’s lame hip hop and its general theme of trying too hard, because these nu pop watches by designer Pascal Mouawad and musician Jermaine Dupri are pretty snazzy in their own right. $US145. [nupop via Whollysblog via bookofjoe]
Design
What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt)
12:00PM Mark Wilson | All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. But really they’re men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $US18. [Threadless via FashionablyGeek]
Design
LED Eyelashes Are The Next Stage In Woman’s Self-Torturing Race
3:19AM Mark Wilson | Designer Soomi Park is a betrayer of her own sex. She could very well start a trend with these LED eyelashes, forcing women everywhere to painfully affix electrodes to their faces, blinding themselves with each eye-smile. (See the video!) More »
Design
Ecko Star Wars Watches, If You’re Not Fett Up Yet
12:40AM Mark Wilson | We can only imagine how much money there is to be made on a $US100 geek hoodies, which probably why Marc Ecko, teamed with Timex, is looking to release a line of Star Wars watches next. More »
Software
