hats
Design
Smile! No, Seriously, Smile Or I’ll Jam A Spike Into Your Skull
6:20AM Adam Frucci | This is the Happiness Hat. It detects whether or not you’re smiling. If you aren’t, it jabs you in the back of the head with a metal spike. Nothing makes people happier than sharp skull pain! More »
Design
Warning: Ponytail Cap
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | No no no no no. NO! I’m not looking! I’m not looking! You don’t exist! I said I’m noooot looking! NOT. LOOKING. OK, I’m looking. Good God. [This You Never Knew Existed via Presurfer via Likecool]
Design
Buy The Hat From Back To The Future: Part II
1:40AM Mark Wilson | You’ve seen the shoes and you’ve scored the jacket. But what about the most garish garment of Marty McFly’s 2015 ensemble, his eye-straining, iridescent hat? Yes, now even that masterpiece is for sale. More »
Weapons
Sap Cap Packs a Blackjack Into a Black Hat
8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The Sap Cap isn’t just a logo-less baseball cap. It’s also a blackjack, one of those weighted leather weapons private eyes used to get socked with all the time back in the 1940s. More »
Design
Disco Ball Hat Makes the Top of Your Head a Party Zone
6:20AM Adam Frucci | HELLO, LADIES. [Urban Trend via Fashionably Geek] More »
Design
Bowler Cap Lampshade Turns Lightbulbs into London’s Head Circa 1850
9:00AM Mark Wilson | Perhaps that alien fixture with illuminated lava lamp phallus is not adding that touch of class you’d hoped to the old apartment. Then grab the Jeeves Wooster lampshades instead. More »
Music
iCap MP3 Player: Genuine Disruptive Technology At Last
4:30AM Mark Wilson | While headphones are a serious cause of hearing damage, there are alternatives. And one such alternative is the iCap MP3 player—an MP3 player in a baseball cap that never bows to social pressures. More »
Gadgets
Avi’s Yarmulke Version 2.0: Now With Scrolling LEDs
6:20AM Benny Goldman | The last time we caught up with tech analyst Avi Greengart, he sported a yarmulke emblazoned with crocheted gadgets. Now he’s put his money where his mouth keppe is and made his newest yarmulke a gadget itself. It is loaded with LEDs that scroll his name—and presumably messages to the man upstairs, or anything else he can dream up. I have one pressing question: Does he turn it off on Friday night? [Avi Greengart] More »
Science
A Baseball Hat That Can Read Your Mind
7:40AM Adam Frucci | While this might look like an ordinary baseball hat, a closer look reveals that it has a bunch of electronics jammed into the back and a wire connecting it behind the ear of the wearer. That’s your first tip-off that this hat will do more than shield your eyes from the sun and give you hat head. It’s a hat that can actually read the EEG signals from your brain, able to tell when you’re too sleepy to drive or, with a bit more work, allow you to do things like turn the TV on and off. It’s much like other EEG readers that claim to allow you to control things with your brain, but this one is wireless and portable. [Pink Tentacle] More »
Entertainment
