Archive for the 'iPod Fashion' Category

We had an article on talk2myShirt last October speculating about the revival of the BoomBox trend of the 80s in form of bags and backpacks with speaker and amplifier integrated to hook up to our 21st century small audio players like the iPod.

Sure enough another option is coming to the market via iWorld with a bag design that takes the retro spirit for a Wearable boombox to a higher level.

With the fashionable retro design of the Boom Bag in the style of an Tape Deck or an DJ Mixer, sharing music has never been more fun.

This Boom Bags will let you share your music wherever you are, in the park or on the cool beach party or on the sports ground to cheer you on, the reasons for having a boom bag box are endless.

Revive the spirit of the 80’s Boom Box era with this 21st century wearable boom bag that cleverly hides an FM radio and set of speakers ready to connect any portable audio device like iPod or other MP3 player, mobile phone, CD player anything that comes with an 3.5mm headphone plug and gives out an audio signal.

In the 80s many carried around big boom boxes. At the begin of the 21st century we can carry around boom bags that give off sound just like the boomboxes in the last century only we have now the option of a soft touch and multifunctional boomboxes that double as bag.

Boombox evolution enabled by wearable technologies

The price for this retro hip bag is very reasonable at £18.99 which makes in $37.82 in US currency. Available via iWorld’s online shop.

[via Chip Chick]

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Urban Tool the Digital Lifestyle label from Vienna is preparing the launch of another cool urban tool, the Urban Performer Unit.We have seen last month the perCushion, a pillow that allows to make phone calls, a great accessory for the digital lifestyle at home.

The target for the Urban Performer Unit is the digital lifestyle on the move.

A unisex handbag with crystallized controlling. The bag allows to control the iPod from its outside surface which incorporates Swarovski crystals.

The crystals indicate the iPod functions and status. A sophisticated design combining technology with emotion.

The bags outer material is fine black leather which gives a high contrast for the crystal coding of the iPod functions: Play/Stop/Pause, Forward/Back and Volume +/-

Next to the iPod, the bag is prepared to take all your digital lifestyle tools like PDA, cellphone and (digital) wallet neatly arranged and ready for use.

Launch date for the Urban Performer Unit is set for Christmas 2008 with a price tag of 329,00 EUR ($517.80)

The Urban Performer Unit is a creative merge of technology, emotional materials and sophisticated design, demonstrating the future of interactive fashion accessories.

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My favorite T-Shirt brand Music and Sons added a new dimension to their Music T-Shirt range: consumer can vote on their site which of the many Music T-Shirt designs should make it to a final product into the online store.

Cool idea to be involved in the final product selection, a kind of interactivity and involvement more companies could offer as well.

My voting is out and I am checking now to see if I will find my favorite designs in the shop, need to stock up for the coming summer season.

The selection is not like the ID concept where you can mix and match colors and printing. I think it is better that way, who else than Italian fashion designer create the worlds most famous outfits. The only problem with this: I like them ALL.

The simple solution of the Music T-Shirts, integrating permanently the headphone cable in the T-Shirt with the audio connector in the pocket and the headphone connector near the neck takes out the acrobatic cable management many people perform before heading out on the street.

I keep looking around for something similar useful but haven’t found any better solution that is as convenient to manage the headphone cable.

The Music T-Shirts are made of high quality textile material, have a excellent cut for the the perfect fit and are finished by hand in Italy.

Click over to the voting site and select your favorite design. It might help to ask your friends voting for your design as only the winner will make it to the store. The ‘looser designs’ will drop out over time and replaced with new styles again up for voting.

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Few days ago we presented some links where to pick up O’Neill’s cool h4 Interactive Apparel for a reduced price.

Today we found out O’Neill is having their own online Sale, offering the complete h4 Wearable Electronic range for an average discount of around €80.- or $120.- not bad for a cool iPod Jacket like the women Ent. Jacket shown on the left.

The Ent. Jacket for women has a cute design and color combination with some ‘girly’ touches here and there. In this style the small and discrete joystick like iPod control fits perfectly to the overall design.

It’s got all the quality goodies O’Neill always offers like collar adjustment, storm placket, goggle and lift card pocket, key hook and more.

The reduced price for this model is €209.97 or $324.62 directly by O’Neill.

Besides the h4 interactive apparel range, O’Neill offers also the Campack with a price reduction of almost €100.- or $150.- compared to the introduction price last autumn.

Available by O’Neill for €188.97 or $291.94 the Campack has a complete multimedia center on board to capture your action packed life.

For that money you get next to the h4 Campack the helmet camera with extension cord, battery holder, the Portable Media Player, a USB cable to download your action to a computer and a Battery charger.

4 hours of video recording is possible on one battery charge tough the internal memory (512 MB) holds only around 40 minutes but there is the option to use a 2 GB SD/MMC card for 160 minutes of video recording.

All in all a great opportunity to get real cool Wearable Electronic without breaking the bank. As always: the power choice is yours.

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During our restless search for new Interactive Clothing we found another iPod enabled outdoor jacket with textile controls, the RHYTM iPod jacket for men.

You might say ‘a bit late for a snowboarding jacket’ and I agree to this. We are spending most of our blogging time searching on the Internet for new products out of the Wearable Electronic department.

Only, it is very (should be capital characters) difficult to find them. I do not know why companies working on and producing great new products like Interactive Clothing and then spend even more time to hide them - really, they hide them in the deepest and darkest areas of their online and off-line stores.

And because of this hiding game we started talk2myShirt, creating a place for ourself and for anyone and everyone interested into Wearable Electronic to conveniently browse and not search all the product options available in the market.

Why hiding dhe RHYTM iPod jacket which is a very good looking performance ski jacket with integrated audio controls for iPod. It is manufactured in MILATEX™ fabric, similar to Goretex, that makes this jacket waterproof, windproof and breathable.

The textile controls allow you to enjoy music on the go at the touch of a button on the sleeve. Made for all iPod that have the 30pin dock connector the controls provide the ‘usual’ functions: on/off, previous/next song and volume adjustment.

The RHYTM iPod jacket comes in coffee brown. Other features include storm flap, snow cuffs, detachable snow skirt, one handed adjusters and the media pocket with iPod connector and RECCO an avalanche rescue system that allows the wearer to be rapidly located by rescuers using a RECCO locater.

The benefit of being late in the season is the reduced price of just $200.78 (£99.00) as seen by Tog24 a UK online and off-line retailer.

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Retro Fashion in Wearable Electronic is something new as Wearable Electronic is not that long around but I think the Burton Amp Pack deserves the label ‘retro fashion’. The Amp Pack was the first backpack with integrated textile iPod controls ever launched in the market (in Feb 2006) . That was before we started talk2myShirt!

Since then many other iPod enabled packs from Burton and other brands followed. Among all those many models I have seen, my favorite in style and coolness is still the Amp Pack with the Black Faux Croc Leather finish. It looks cool on girls and boys alike, the perfect pack for the city life style. This model is by far the best interactive backpack Burton has ever launched.

The iPod remote control on the shoulder strap is based on the SOFTswitch remote system that gives you complete control of your iPod’s playback functions.

One note for caution: being a Wearable Electronic retro fashion item, the Amp works only with iPod’s up to Generation 4 that have the headphone jack with a little slot next to it. This Amp Pack will not work with the newer iPods like Nano, Shuffle, Video iPod or iPod Touch.

You need go retro with your iPod as well. Nevertheless, if you still have one of those older iPod models on hand and are on the look out for a real cool backpack, the Amp Pack is something you might consider.

Music in your ear might be the price drop from $239.90 at the time of introduction down to $107.96 as seen on this online store or on that online store.

Retro in fashion is something that has been around for many years but with the addition of technology there can be some consequences like in this case where the technology (iPod) is not available anymore. I am not saying this is a problem but it is a point to watch out when buying Retro Interactive Fashion.

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Winter season is almost over but it’s the time you can pick up great bargains. One of such pick-up opportunity are the O’Neill h4 Wearable Electronic jackets.

O’Neill launched the most advanced Wearable Electronic range for the Fall/Winter season 2007/08 with the h4 collection of Entertainment and Communication Entertainment Jackets.

The Ent. Jacket is specifically made for your iPod and You when out and about to enjoy snow boarding, skiing or just need to stay warm during the colder times.

The Comm. Ent. Jackets adds to a generic MP3 player control in the jackets sleeve the chatting communication function.

A microphone in the jacket’s wind flap and the Bluetooth connection between the phone and the MP3 player. Music playback is automatically paused in the event of an incoming call.

With the Comm. Ent. Jacket you are always connected and can chat your way down the hill

Here are some links we found great bargains for the h4 Jacket range:
Comm. Ent. Jacket (men) for $332.97 by blue-tomato.at
Ent. Jacket for (men) $221.97 by blue-tomato.at

A bit more expensive but still a good price:
Ent. Jacket for (men) for $299.63 by advancedmp3players.co.uk
Ent. Jacket for (women) for $299.63 advancedmp3players.co.uk

This prices are almost 50% lower than the introduction price of the h4 range, a real bargain for these cool looking snow jackets that will look cool next season as well.

If you have other sources for great bargains of the h4 range, drop us a line in the comments and share with our readers.

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Staying on the musical side, we have another great product to introduce, the RedLine iPod Sound Bag to enjoy listening to Kanye West from your iPod connected to this first class MacBook case via the ‘magic sound’ speaker from NXT.

That’s music in our ears in every aspect. The Sound Bag has a stylish design and connects with ALL iPods, that’s why it is only available via the Apple Store where all cool stuff on this planet can be found.

With a zipped front compartment the Sound Bag is RedLine’s vision for not only transporting but playing your iPod in one easy to carry design.

The speaker is completely, from the outside invisible, integrated into the bags structure thanks to NXT’s flat panel speaker technology.

To top off the coolness of this bag, the light will come on inside the bag and reveal more areas to store your iPod and other stuff. A neat addition that brings some light to the mess stuff inside of your bag.

The Redline iPod Sound Bag is available on the Apple store in UK for £79.95 ($ 156.90) a very reasonable price for the coolest MacBook bag I have ever seen, even without all the bells and whistles this Redline bag offers.

The perfect gear for the road warriors in Black on Black Unique Camo material Teflon coated with leather trim.

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