Gizmos and Gadgets You Can Wear

Tech News 23 June 2009 | 0 Comments

There are all kinds of great wearable gadgets on the market right now. A  good example is the iPod Shoe Kit by Nike.

The iPod Shoe Kit by Nike is fitted with a miniature pedometer and an adapter to fit onto your iPod so that the pedometer data collected is transmitted to your media player. You can see the number of steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned and other information about your workout on your iPod screen during your run or walk.

What do you think about a shirt that is embedded with a device that can help detect Wi-Fi signals. The Wi-Fi Detecting Shirt allows you to check to see if there is a Wi-Fi Signal available or not.  This is thanks to an animated decal, that features a radio tower emanating waves, that lights up when you are in the presence of Wi-Fi Accessibility.  You can actually peel this animated decal off when it is time to wash the shirt.

It is “welcome to the future” when you are looking through the slim eye shades that constitute the Vuzix AV310.  This is a pair of video eyewear that allows you to see movies and other stuff through a virtual widescreen that is fifty two inches by nine inches.

Equally futuristic are MP3 Player Sunglasses. These are sleek looking sunglasses with smoky yellow lenses into which the player is actually embedded.  An earpiece juts out of the hard plastic silver  frame.

You can also get tukes with built in MP3 players nowadays.  These have built in speakers with a jack that can be plugged into any standard MP3 player.

Have you ever thought of warming your hands with your computer. Now you can get gloves that slip over your hands and warm them using power taken from your computer’s USB port.

One of the more amusing but also efficient gadgets that there is lately is the Earlight. The Earlight hooks over your ear and then shines a big beam of light onto the page you are reading.  The key to this working well is to make sure that it is adjusted correctly of your ear.

Timex and Core77 have collaborated to introduce one of the world’s smallest watches. This unique, wearable gadget is disposable timepiece designed to attach to your fingernail. You press it and it lights up in green or pink to tell you the time. The display of the watch includes the time, date and AM/PM indictor which appears in clear format until lit up. This strange watch for your fingernail becomes even trendier at nighttime, as each design lights up in a different color when the tip of the fingernail watch is pressed.

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