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Minimalist Wipe Shirt Keeps Screens, and Your Look, Clean
Filed under: Cell Phones Having a highly smudged screen on your PDA or smartphone is like having a small stain on your your brand new shirt; no matter how nice, the whole package ends up tainted....
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Cassette Playa's Augmented Reality Fashion Show Ditches Threads for Fantasy
Filed under: Audio/Video, Playroom London-based streetwear design label Cassette Playa recently presented its Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, incorporating augmented reality software and projections...
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Ping Hoody Makes Facebook Fashionable
Filed under: Web, Social Networking Share Jennifer Darmour, a Seattle based designer, has designed the perfect piece of e-apparel for the fashionably conscious Facebook obsessive. The Ping hoody, which...
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Design Concepts: Future Fashion
Filed under: Columns Share The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products....
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I.B.M.'s Jeopardy-Playing Watson Profiled, Optimize Your Outdoor Audio
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey...
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'Back to the Future' Inspired Shoes Really Tie Themselves
Filed under: Playroom 'Back to the Future,' like America, just had a birthday (although it only turned 25), and our feeds are blowing up with McFly-related memorabilia. Back in 2008, Nike released a...
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Queen Elizabeth II Blings in Swarovski 3-D Shades
Filed under: Audio/Video Regular folks, like us, wear plain-old, recycled 3-D glasses when we're at the movies. But when you're the Queen of England, not just any 3-D spectacles will do. That's why,...
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Marc Jacobs Discovers E-Commerce, Somehow NYT's Style Section Is Shocked
Filed under: WebIn a class-war-baiting article typical of the Sunday Style section, the New York Times published a piece describing fashion's fall from grace and into the common world of the Web. Years...
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Design Concepts: Advances in Textiles, From Bacteria Dresses to Acoustic Threads
Filed under: Columns The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products....
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Fits.me Shape-Shifting Robots Help Shoppers Find the Proper Fit
Filed under: Web No matter their size, everybody has purchased clothing online, and then discovered, upon delivery, that it didn't fit right. But a European company has a solution to this problem --...
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Amazing Daft Punk Helmet Leaves Us Neon Green With Envy
Filed under: Audio/Video Daft Punk, the French house-music duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, are almost as famed for their masked appearances as they are for their music. Their...
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Hands-Free iPad Comes at the Cost of Wearing a Ridiculous Shirt
Filed under: Computers Despite a great level of ingenuity on some companies' parts, finding a useful accessory for your iPad these days is akin to sifting through junk at a garage sale. Syte Shirt, a...
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M-Dress by CuteCircuit: The Little Black Dress That's Also a Cell Phone
Who needs a clutch purse to hold a cell phone when you could just slip into the cell phone itself? Design outfit CuteCircuit has recently announced the M-Dress, a crepe silk-looking affair with soft...
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Austin's Recycled and Colorful Cocktail Dress Made From Computer Wire
Last week was Austin Fashion Week, and the event's 'Keep Austin Beautiful' show featured upcycled and recycled designs from Texan artists. Designer Tina Sparkles (who might be a Baz Luhrmann fan)...
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Stop Your Grinnin' and Drop Your Linen: Ripley's 'Aliens' Reeboks Soon on Sale
The 'Back To The Future' hoverboard and self-lacing sneakers have already been wrenched from the film world and into reality. (Even Nike is patenting its own 'BTTF' lacing tech.) But, as definitive...
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Recaps From the Runway on Twitter's Fashion Week Hub
Can't get your invites in order? Stuck on a desert island? No matter -- you can still follow NY Fashion Week on Twitter, and peruse news selected by the likes of Bergdorf Goodman and Women's Wear...
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Oakley Plans Ski Bum-Worthy 3-D Glasses for Holiday Release
Check out Oakley's new line of premium tacky/cool (depending on who you are) 3-D glasses, which will be released in time for the holidays. These "optically correct" shades use Oakley's HDO-3-D...
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Spray-On 'Fabrican' Clothing Should Be a Hit With Hospitals, Bondage Enthusiasts
We'd make a joke about hipsters and "painted-on" jeans if every other blogger hadn't done it first. So what can we say about this spray-on fabric developed by Imperial College London and Fabrican?...
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Diana Eng Hits Maker Faire With Her Forward-Thinking Tech Couture
Making her name as the de facto designer of fab, fantastic techno creations, Diana Eng's forward-thinking designs have ranged from jellyfish-like underwater sea creatures to candy raver. This weekend,...
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I-ELLA Combines eBay, Gilt Groupe and a Bazaar Into Charitable Shopping
Discount stores, invite-only sites, Etsy and eBay: there is hardly a reason to head to a department store anymore. Unless, of course, you still appreciate the social aspect of shopping -- getting a...
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A Virtual Miracle on 34th Street: Macy's to Debut Digital 'Magic Fitting Room'
The famous Macy's in Manhattan's Herald Square will debut a so-called Magic Fitting Room next month, which will allow shoppers to virtually try on clothes. A 72-inch mirror display will digitally...
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Household Appliances Make Great, Abstract Footwear
The late, great Alexander McQueen could do anything, but he specialized in the strange and beautiful. So when The Hairpin alerted us to Lernert and Sander's tribute to the extreme shoe for Selfridges,...
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Gucci's 3-D Glasses Make You Look Good When No One Can See You
It's no big secret that people hate 3-D glasses, which have probably been the biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of 3-D TV. Consumer glasses are ugly, uncomfortable and expensive. But while we...
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Digital Artist Fashions Dazzling Laser Dancewear
Share In a true "What took so long?" development, digital artist Wei-Chieh Shih has helped to design a stunning piece of technological apparel. Shih adorned a nylon suit with 200 laser diodes to...
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Boutiques.com: Google's Fashion Foray Is Fun (and Full of Filters), But Falls...
Gosh, fashion quizzes are incredibly awkward. Those endlessly clickable little surveys of your likes and dislikes are often so broadly wrong in their attempts to translate something so nuanced,...
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Karl Lagerfeld Compares Facebook to Brancusi, And Some Other Crazy Talk
God, we love Karl Lagerfeld. Maybe you're not a fashion fan, maybe you're offended by his unapologetic weightism or maybe you think he looks like the death mask of Bela Lugosi, but you cannot ignore...
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Charlie Bucket's 'Fluid Dress' Is a Morphing Series of Tubes
Share Charlie Bucket is a bit of a star in the hacked crafts crowd, having debuted his Fluid Dress at the Maker Faire festival in California last year. Yet, showing the dress in its most-perfected...
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Worst of Gilt Takes Flash-Sale Site to Task
You know how frustrated you get when someone successfully documents a thing that you and your friends do all the time, but never thought of successfully documenting yourself? Welcome the Worst of Gilt,...
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Indie Retailer Moxsie Lets Twitter Fans Be the Buyer (And Switched Readers...
Don't call it crowd-sourcing. It isn't quite that. It's not exactly social networking either, though the idea behind Moxsie's newest initiative does harness the large-scale power of Twitter and the...
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Flashy Adidas Touchscreen Helps You Buy Shoes, Won't Hold Your Feet
Adidas and Intel recently unveiled a massive touchscreen wall that allows shoe retailers to house a large inventory without taking up so much floorspace. The adiVerse Virtual Footwear Wall, which was...
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Japanese Go Crazy for Light-Up Smiles
Wearing gold fronts and jewels in your teeth is so Aughts. The 2010s call for a thoroughly more modern oral adornment. Enter Japanese fashion designers Mr. Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, who have created...
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Switched Giveaway: Speck Netbook/iPad Case Makes Your Social Life Easier
Every day that we go to work, we have a dilemma. We must tote our most crucial instrument, our laptop, virtually everywhere, but what happens when the work day ends? Do we accompany associates for a...
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Kenneth Cole Redefines Classy With Cairo Tweet
Share This week, the Social Media Outreach Award goes to Kenneth Cole, the brand that offers sensible shoes and faux-leather bags to the upscale T.J. Maxx shopper. Earlier today, the company managed...
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See New York Fashion Week Shows Stream Live, Thanks To YouTube
In a partnership that makes so much sense it is almost shocking that it didn't happen earlier, YouTube is going to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The video site is streaming shows direct from Lincoln...
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New York Fashion Week on Twitter: Take Your Seat in the Digital Front Row
Watching events unfold Twitter is no longer just an interesting pastime, but a crucial way to keep abreast of cultural, political or sports-oriented happenings. We broke down the best accounts to...
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Hipstamatic Launches 'Chunky' Glam NY Fashion Week Lens
The go-to app for iPhone-obsessed glamour shooters, Hipstamatic knows its audience well enough to launch the new 'Chunky' lens at New York Fashion Week. Developed by fashion photog Chiun-Kai Shih, the...
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Designer Derek Lam Crowd-Sources Summer Collection on eBay
Derek Lam's Fashion Week shows are always attended by the style elite. This season, Anna Wintour sat front row, near Joe Zee and Derek Blasberg, and, last season, Leighton Meester and Rachel Zoe...
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Nike Sneakers Customized With Google, Firefox and Twitter Themes
Customized kicks aren't just for the cool kids. For proof, check out these customized Nike Dunks inspired by Firefox, Twitter and Google. The colorful hi-tops are designed by Daniel Reese, who sells a...
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Uniqlo Launches a Facebook-Based Street Style Site
When Uniqlo opened in New York, suddenly everyone had a place to shop for affordable, well-made jeans and tops. But, as with with anything in this city that is stylish and affordable, those pieces...
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The Future of Fashion May Mean Designing Your Own Duds
By employing Delaunay Triangulation, or the practice of creating wide-angled triangles along a set of given points, designer Mary Huang hopes to democratize the little black dress. With her project...
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