We have seen many versions of EL decal animated T-Shirts but the ThumbsUp! Emoticon T-Shirt is the cutest I have seen so far.

The Emoticon T-Shirt offers four different emoticons you can choose to express your current stage of emotion by lighting up your T-Shirt making sure even in the darkest corners of your life your emotional stage is clearly visible.

Your emotion can range from a happy face to the sad face, a winking face or a surprised face covering most of the emotions one goes while walking through life.

To switch between the emotion just press the front of the light-up panel. If only our emotions would be as easy to control.

The Emoticon T-Shirt is powered by 4x AAA batteries and features a glow in the dark/UV reactive screen print as well to create additional light effects.

Available by thmupsUp! for £29.99 (around $47.40) but it’s out of stock currently – sad face.

Finding T-Shirts with animated decals is not difficult nowadays – partly also thanks to our coverage.

The use of wafer thin EL-foils allows nearly unobtrusive integration of an animated display element that can be treated (washed) like many other T-Shirts (hand washing).

Although some of the designs are very geeky and techno, one of the latest styles from Flashwear is very appealing, not as loud but still eye catching: the T-Cannabis Leaf T-Shirt.

The leaf shirt utilizes the advantage of EL-foil technology be going away with the strong geometric design of an circle, square of rectangle to make a more aesthetically appealing, organic shape.

I use this leaf T-Shirt as an example how technology should be used when combining with clothing. Maybe less engineering and more fashion design input would help in creating body conform, natural, organic looking interactive garments. If now the light sequence would be less erratic, more subtle and soft in the light sequence, I would actually buy one.

The T-Cannabis Leaf T-Shirt as well as many other, more aggressive animated T-Shirts cost $32.98 each, not too bad for a 100% cotton shirt that brightens up your day chest.