Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men’s underwear made with bananas.
AussieBum’s Lloyd Jones said on Friday that the new eco-friendly banana range of undies incorporated 27 percent banana fibre, 64 percent cotton and nine percent lycra.

This laser-sintered 3D-printed shoe, by Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf, was displayed at Stockholm’s Fashion Week. If only it was made out of the kind of milk-based bioplastic that smells like rice pudding, well, shiny shiny shiny pumps of dairy!

No stinky no more!

Body odour, that unfortunate side-effect of hard-working tradesmen, could be a thing of the past.
Advances in clothing technology are resulting in odour-destroying fabrics, performance-increasing sportswear and electrically-conductive fibres sparking excitement in the fashion industry.

Keyboard jeans
Designer Erik De Nijs, Erik has stitched together this eye catching pair of “Beauty and the Geek” jeans. These “modern shaped trousers which is often worn by youngsters..” are the perfect solution for Googling quick exits while running from the fashion police.  (Pics)
 

If the next Road Warrior Weekend event is anywhere near me, I just might have to suit up.  These would be first on the shopping list for my costume, although they are also apparently popular at raves and for those wishing they were Lady Gaga…

Wash-free Jeans
Okay, so we don’t wash our jeans as much as we ought to. But really, wash-free jeans? TriStar (not to be confused with TRISTAR, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures) – a Brazilian fashion label – has created a denim collection with directions to freeze-clean your jeans! The company’s CEO says after wearing them, put [...]

Soular Backpack
Neon Green has decided to bring solar to the fashion forward among us, from tween girls to guys working in the financial district. The makers of solar bags have come up with a variety of designs that incorporate thin-film solar cells into trendy bags with “soular” for off-grid charging and backup power for hand-held [...]

The Color Marketing Group forecast color directions for all industries, manufactured products and services
Fashion is a fickle thing, and, unless you follow trends closely, you get left behind in the “that was so last week” heap.   When it comes to the look of your home, fashion is fairly forgiving. Unless you regularly entertain experts from [...]

Sound reactive nightgown
Voice activation is a function electronic devices like cell phones, GPS units and computer include in their feature list to make it more convenient to interact with them but clothing? Yes, clothing too, at least this is what Sarah Soriano, a new media artist with a love to electrify garments is proposing with [...]

Jewel-encrusted beetle
It was an unlikely fashion accessory but the arrival of a jewel-encrusted beetle at a US border post certainly bugged customs officers.
 

Adidas augmented reality sneakers
Can’t find your Nintendo DS? Try one of the new Adidas sneakers instead.
Adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using an upcoming line of five men’s sneakers in an idea that ties into one of the technology trends of the year: augmented reality.
 

LED-Powered Climate Dress
Who says fashion can’t have an impact on our environmental awareness?  The LED-Powered Climate Dress monitors pollution and displays a health warning based on local air quality.  (Pics)
 

This necklace is bright and bold with 7 traffic cone orange capacitors!
Silver tubes space the capacitors on a snake chain.

Those creative folks over at ETSY dot com have entered another barrage of hot tech fashion staments. Case in point is the artist “digiBling” who has created an electronical array of necklaces, earrings, cufflinks, and belts to [...]

iThreeSixty
Hats with built in earphones are nothing new, but this new beanie from iThreeSixty takes things a step further by including a clear window that holds the iPod itself.
 

For those of you who are dreaming about becoming the next James Bond, you’ll certainly be attracted to JTT’s WACAHD8GB wristwatch. It looks like your average wristwatch, but it it’s able to shoot 1280 x 960 resolution videos at 30fps, and you’ll also be able to take still shots that are just under 8-megapixels. While [...]

Twenty-seven year old UK entrepreneur, Matt Horan, has started a company based off an ingenious idea. “After getting tired of giving my girlfriend a piggyback home every Saturday night, I had a ‘eureka’ moment,” says Rollasole founder Matt Horan of his clever invention. (Pics)
 

Sitting in Style while Travelling

Dutch designer Erik De Nijs created Suited Case — a collection of four functional suitcases that can be linked together in the form of a couch. His goal was to give travelers a taste of home while away:
This concept came from a research on nostalgia during travelling. When a familiar object [...]

The ultimate geek toy
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shows us that a nixie tube watch is probably a better idea in theory than it is in practice. It’s so bulky. Sure looks like a lot of trouble he has to go through just to change the time zone. Never mind that, if they could just make [...]

LED Eyelashes
False eyelashes not getting you enough attention? LED Eyelashes from Korean designer Soomi Park will have you turning heads so fast you might be sued for causing whiplash.  (Video)

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 The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt isn’t just a t-shirt. You can actually play music on it. Use a magnetic pick over the string markings and press down on the frets with your other hand. There’s also a volume nob and an amplifier that fits on your belt. Has it been a long time since [...]

Just call me Captain Cutie!

ThinkGeek’s Star Trek onesies are a great change from the boring old Bob the Builder and Disney Princess junk you’ll get heaped on you the second your kid emerges.

All hung up on DNA

Irina Alexandru’s design is more of a coat hanger than a closet, but it’s intended to allow for the maximum amount of clothing hangers in the smallest amount of space. We just plain like the curvy double helix design.
For those who are having flashbacks to biology class: Yes, a double-helix is actually [...]

One Smart Suit

A Japanese company, Haruyama Trading Co., has developed a suit that it claims protects the wearer from the deadly H1N1 strain of influenza.
The company has produced 50,000 of the suits and will start selling them on Thursday, according to a company spokesman.
The suit is coated with the chemical titanium dioxide, which reacts to [...]

Ultra cool bathtub with built in TV
Korean bath company Saturn knew it had made the right decision when it hired famous designer Karim Rashid to design its latest creation, the TV bathtub. Karim Rashid has done full justice to his task and the result is for all to see. This white, oval-shaped tub is made of LAR [...]

The Scala Bio-Fir tights and leggings zap toxins and fat with in-built thermal crystals which claim to increase blood flow
It sounds just too good to be true – leggings which melt away cellulite.  But this is what new hi-tech legwear can apparently do for women simply by heating up their skin with a ‘wonder yarn’ [...]