Solar-powered bike helmet
A solar powered, trickle-charged, weatherproof, safety bike helmet with changeable parts. The Green Helmet (Solar powered, safety lit, weatherproof bike helmet.) – Link
Wearables
DIY Light up hat
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yang02 made a cool hat, I’m not exactly sure what it does but it appears to light up when it gets dark, it might also blink – Link.
Build a gas mask from your old PC
We know that you were planning on buying an expensive gas mask to foil the next bio-terror plot, but who’s got the cash? Now for a whopping $0 of materials including an empty CD-ROM case and a plastic bag, you can make your own mask just like the pros use. Remember, evil could be everywhere […]
“Digg me’ T-Shirt using the Digg button kit
Hah! This is awesome, it’s a shirt you can “Digg” based on the open source Digg button kit – [via] Link.
See through window raincoat
Stylish and functional (might be fun to make a laptop version) Popular Science 1936 – To facilitate taking notes in the rain, a German newspaper reporter has equipped his raincoat with a window of transparent material. By holding his pencil and notebook in front of him, directly under the improvised window, he is able to […]
Google ring proclaims your Internet status
The “Vanity Ring” project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring. From the description: “While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money […]
Piezoelectric concept backpack
Researchers at Michigan Technological University, Arizona State University and NanoSonic Inc. are working on harvesting the ambient energy of walking and carrying a backpack with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a nylon-like material with piezoelectric properties. This would be great for multi-day hiking, since you wouldn’t have carry heavy batteries to keep your GPS or cellphone juiced! […]
