R2D2 Swimsuit

Australian fashion designer James Lillis has become an instant geek hero with the launch of an swimsuit inspired by the Star Wars droid R2D2. According to James, "there has been thousands of dollars worth of orders in just a few hours."
Expect a surge of geeks to the beach with cameras soon!




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Karmaloop - 20% off

Karmaloop is an online store with so much good merch it's unbelievable. By far the best store I have come across online.

Brands such as Burton, Obey, Analog, Mishka, Crooks & Castles, Rouge Status, KR3W, LRG, Rocksmith, Know1edge and loads more.

Really good prices and shipping takes around 4 days from the US to europe.

Possibility of free shipping in the US.

check out this karmaloop.com link to save 20% off your purchase.

The Dreadator by Skinner

The Dreadator shirt designed by Skinner available from Zero Friends for a decent $28

Most Awesome Video Game Controller

Need I say more?

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Londoner Rivals Space Jumper

Coming just days after Felix Baumgartner announced the news that he will be looking to break the highest freefall record, Steve Truglia has announced he will be going for the record too. Aiming to do it this summer, he hopes to beat Felix to it.

Read our article on Felix's jump HERE.

9th Annual No Pants Subway Ride!

People in over 43 cities in 16 countries participated, with 3000 in New York alone, in The 9th Annual No Pants Subway Ride ,which took place yesterday.

Bear Shaped Sleeping Bag

Geek out on your next outdoor camping adventure with The Great Sleeping Bear sleeping bag. Designed by Eiko Ishizawa, this synthetic sleeping bag is meant to resemble the wandering great brown bear of the Alps.
According to the designer, this cool design plays on several basic human emotions including the fear of getting eaten by a bear, being a bear as well as wearing a bear skin. Regardless of which emotion this design will illicit in you, one thing is for sure and that is you’ll have lots of fun and laughs on your next camping trip. In fact, as everyone huddles around the campfire telling ghost stories or other scary stories of the madman of the woods, slip into your sleeping bag and just wander out of your tent to give your friends a good scare.
If you like this camping gadget, it looks like you will be able to buy it in the Spring of 09, so stay tuned.

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T-Sketch Interactive T-Shirt

The ingenious new T-sketch t-shirt from the Elektro range features an amazing new technological development – whatever you write or draw on it will be converted into an illuminated message or design! Anything that’s drawn on the wipe-clean panel activates a glowing light beneath so that it lights up. You can also change the flashing sequence to suit your preference – from a gentle glow right through to a pulsing strobe.
This hugely innovative garment lets you send out your own message or display any logo or picture that you feel like drawing to make a truly individual statement.
Perfect for nights-out clubbing, as well as being a great attention-grabber, you can also use it to write people’s telephone numbers on too!

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Wearable Toy Piano Shirt

The DIY Wearable Toy Piano shirt was designed for a DIY Festival that was held in Zurich on the 6/7 December. You can go to the Instructables site for some step-by-step instructions on how to make this homemade gift.
Much of the materials can be obtained from a normal toy piano, and it appears that the buttons are put on the side, which makes this piano shirt easy to play. If the designer had put the piano keys on your chest, then it would be complicated and awkward to play. It looks like you have to do some kind of adapting to play this particular piano that you can wear.
After seeing this YouTube video below, you can’t deny that it works. However, it could probably work better if it was attached to a speaker of some sort. Perhaps the filmmaker should have turned up the volume on the camera.
I guess the real question is whether or not you would be pleased if someone made you a Piano shirt and gave it to you as a gift for Christmas.

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Great Graff Tees

The Rarekind shop in Brighton has come out with two nice tees from two of the biggest graff crews in London; ATG and DDS.




2Kold from London's infamous DDS showing us all the tube yards that have been taken apart by these top dogs.. UK Stand Up!



Buy or check out more clothing from Rarekind HERE.

Steampunk Gas Masks

A range of beautiful steampunk-esque masks from Bob Bussett. Imagine rocking up to a paintjam with one of these babies!





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Drum Pants

A wicked hacker known as Odbol has invented wearable drum trousers.......Sound strange? Check out the video and his SITE for even more weirdness.

"DrumPants are a wearable set of pants and gloves that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands. The wearer thusly becomes a cyborg musician, his body assuming the roles of both player and instrument, allowing for spontaneous electric hambone solos or even collaborations with other musicians in a band setting."



And just outta interest; hambone percussion was totally new to me, I had never heard of it before and was blown away by this below video too!



To get a tutorial on how to make your own drumpants, visit Odbol's site HERE.

Cool Tee

"Back in 2005, (see image below)Hong Kong’s premier skate shop 8five2 put together a special collaborative t-shirt with LA skate brand Diamond Supply Co. Using the same provocative slogan “Hong Mutha’ Fuck n’ Kong!” as before, In4mation has now given their own little twist on this latest t-shirt."

I wanted one of these back in 2005 but missed the chance, now they are back again for the second installment of HKG cheekiness. PHilfy, any chance you could get me one pleeeease?



"Back in 2005, Hong Kong’s premier skate shop 8five2 put together a special collaborative t-shirt with LA skate brand Diamond Supply Co. Using the same provocative slogan “Hong Mutha’ Fuck n’ Kong!” as before, In4mation has now given their own little twist on this latest t-shirt."

What can i say? You gotta represent your hood right?

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She One Fall/Winter Collection

Our good friend She-One has dropped a great line with Addict Clothing for the 2007 Fall/Winter Collection.

The SHECAMO III SoftSwitch Jacket has an iPod dock on the inside pocket and controller on the left sleeve.

See more images on She-One's blog and at the Addict Clothing site.

Insa Merchandise

I saw on Insa's site that he has just dropped some fresh merchandise on the Oki-ni site. Featuring his trademark Graffiti Fetish "heels" printed all over the hoodies and a sweet little dunny being released via Kidrobot. Would definitely love to get my hands on either the clothing or the toy.

Stab Proof Hoodies

While teens in America are dealing with the constant threat of gun use in their highschools, us Brits are still more scared of being stabbed as it seems so commonplace within the youth of today. I read in the newspaper yesterday that a teen was using a cash machine in my area (Bethnal Green) and was approached from behind by two men and slashed multiple times across his back and arms. (See Pic above) However, he was luckily wearing a new invention by Bladerunner Ltd., a stab-proof hoodie. The top retails at USD$130 and is lined with Kevlar and could soon be part of school uniform. Kevlar can be spun into ropes and sheets of fabric up to five times stronger than steel and this property can make it fire-resistant too. Testing is underway in select schools in the glorious East-End of London.
This sounds crazy, but it actually makes alot of sense to have these hoodies. I still think a kid is more willing to slash or stab you up on the street rather than shoot you because the consequences if they are caught are so much lighter on knife crime compared to gun crime.




I'm diggin the fresh multiple prints design on the hoodies too!

Tomorrows Sunglasses (with a few added features)

When all you want to do is lie back and watch a movie..what could be better than a snazzy pair of shades with tiny screens in the lenses by MYVU?

Aside from looking like a SWAT team member working aboard the Starship Enterprise the advantage to these little beauties is that your unlikely to get any glare on the screen and, when compared to lugging your portable DVD player, laptop, PSP etc, these will fit snuggly in your pocket..just DONT sit on them!!!


Original Post at: Gearlog.com