Japanese company to sell Swine Flu-resistant suit — because nobody wants their clothes to get sick
Japan’s been particularly hard hit with this H1N1 influenza marching around the globe, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that one of its companies has come up with an “anti-flu” suit… but it still is. Japanese clothier Haruyama Trading Company has developed and is now selling a men’s suit which will supposedly ward off the H1N1 virus — not the first time we’ve seen this idea. The suit, which looks exactly like any other, is coated in titanium dioxide (a popular ingredient found in sunscreen and toothpaste) which reacts when exposed to sunlight and kills the virus. Nobody’s really checked into whether or not these things actually work, of course, but hey — that’s part of the fun, right? If you live in Japan, you can grab one for somewhere in the neighborhood of $580. [Via Cnet]
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Japanese company to sell Swine Flu-resistant suit — because nobody wants their clothes to get sick originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 8th, 2009
at 11:51am by Laura June
Topics: Haruyama Trading Co, HaruyamaTradingCo, Medical, MensSuit, MensSuits, Suit, Swine flu, SwineFlu, TitaniumDioxide, clothing, h1n1, illness, japan, mens suit, mens suits, sickness, titanium dioxide, wearables
A Truck Driver’s Baseball Cap Could Be The Difference Between Life and Death [Clothing]
The new SmartCap could be the only thing that saves you from being hosed out of the grill of a semi. Originally designed for miners, the hat monitors a driver’s brain waves for signs of fatigue.
If the hat determines the driver’s condition to be risky, it relays a warning signal to a computer screen in the cab (and possibly cellphones as the image above illustrates) recommending rest. Apparently, trials of the hat are being credited with reducing fatalities for drivers at CRC Mining from 40 in 2007 to 27 in 2008. Now CRC is hoping that their technology can be made available to all drivers sometime in the near future. [Metro]
Acronym’s PMP-loving jacket keeps your earbuds safe, murders your bank account
Sure, the Acronym GT-J14 won’t even charge your iPhone, but at first glance we loved the idea: take a stylish GORE-TEX jacket and throw in a couple slick features aimed at the eager urban technophile, including a so-called Gravity Pocket (accessible by a zipper on your forearm, contents can be dropped directly into your hand using a draw string — demonstrated about 2:25 into the video after the break) and our personal favorite, a magnet that holds your headphones in place while you take that important phone call. We were feeling pretty good about this one, that is, until we finally tracked it down: azitastore.com lists it for €735 (yes, that’s around $1,068). This is clearly only for those of you who put the word “disposable” in “income.” Looks like we’re going to have to find another way to keep our Lady Gaga headphones safe and secure, after all…
[Via Gadget Review]
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Acronym’s PMP-loving jacket keeps your earbuds safe, murders your bank account originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2009
at 4:13pm by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: AcronymGt-j14, GravityPocket, PortableAudio, PortableVideo, acronym, acronym gt-j14, clothing, earbud, earbuds, expensive, gravity pocket, gt-j14, jacket, portable audio, portable video
