O’Neill, the sports clothing company, has announced the NavJacket, a sweater jacket with a built-in GPS. The NavJacket looks like your ordinary ski/snowboarding sweater jacket, except it has got a flexible GPS LED display sewn onto the left sleeve. The display provides information about your current speed, distance traveled, and weather forecasts. It also has built-in speakers inside the hood to provide audio instructions. In addition, the NavJacket allows wearers to connect their cell phone to the GPS, providing the phone with 3D maps and points of interests throughout the resort. Other reported features include the “find a friend”, which allows you to locate your friends on the slopes or follow the route they took. O’Neill plans to release the consumer version in time for the 2008/2009 Winter season.
We hear news stories of lost snowboarders every winter. The NavJacket should help prevent snowboarders from getting lost should they travel off course.
Check out this Donkey Kong t-shirt, which is actually the first level of the of awesome arcade game. It costs $19.99 via MyTeeSpot.
On another related note, if you haven’t seen the documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, I highly suggest it. If you’ve seen it already, skip the rest of this. For the others, it’s about two nerds, Billy Mitchell and Steve Weibe, going at it for the high score on Donkey Kong. You’ll be in disbelief with the amount dedication and deceit that goes on…just for a high score. Go rent it or something.
Hot Topic has a rather geeky Pac-Man hoodie for sale. I’m surprised to see them carry an item like this, normally they only carry music-related items. Regardless, for retro-fans, snag one for $45. The front is zippered.
From Etsy seller, Beatboxtaun, is a Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out themed scarf. Measuring 72 inches in length, it even seems to replicate the 8-bit graphics. Unfortunately, the scarf costs $175 USD and has been sold. I’m glad someone was willing to fork over $175 for a scarf.
Who doesn’t love geeky shirts? Here’s one that is on the top of my list. The Wi-Fi Detector Shirt from ThinkGeek is a shirt that dynamically displays the current Wi-Fi signal strength for you and everyone else who stares at your shirt. The shirt is able to detect 802.11 b/g signals. The batteries (3 AAA) that power the shirt is conveniently hidden in a small pocket sewn inside the shirt.
If you’re worried about ruining the shirt by washing it, no worries. It is washable. Simply remove the animated decal, unplug the ribbon connectors and battery pack, and wash away.
If you’re a geek, you know that once your health meter goes out, you die. You don’t want to die, right? So, the idea is simple. Buy two of these 8-bit Dynamic Life Shirts, give one to yourself and the other to your significant other. You both wear it. When apart, the shirt will give you two and a half hearts (signifying your health meter). However, if you want more “health”, simply get close to (within hugging distance) to your partner. Your shirt will refill its health meter…or love meter depending on how you want to look at it.
