Who does not play songs with the fingers by hitting a table or other objects to drum up the favorite tunes while idle or under pressure.

Hammacher Schlemmer will soon launch gloves that transform your finger drumming into (almost) realistic piano, violin or mandolin sound.

For musicians: each glove can play an entire octave in the key of C. Pressing on the heel of the hand changes the middle three fingers to the final notes A, B, and C, completing the scale.

Both gloves connect with a wire to an integrated speaker unit with volume and tempo control can be clipped to a belt.

A learning and demonstration functions allows to tap along with the speaker unit’s songs while perfecting your skills.

It’s not completely clear to me why Hammacher Schlemmer is targeting only children with the Fingertip Keyboard Gloves as I know many more ‘grown ups’ permanently hammering with their fingers imaginary songs on the meeting table as I see children doing it.

Only a small size gloves variant is available for Age 7 and up. The Fingertip Keyboard Gloves are expected to ship on October 17 for a very reasonable price of $69.95

See this as our early Christmas gift guide for the inspiring musician in your family.

[via: Gizmodo]

Winter time will never be as cold as it used to be in the past. No, I am not talking about global warming, I am talking about heated clothing.

Over the past few years we have seen an increase in cold season clothing that incorporates advanced textile heat elements to keep us toasty warm no matter how cold it gets.

Burton‘s Heated Dream Jacket for the 08/09 winter season comes just in time to get your next seasonal outfit arranged.

The Heated Dream Jacket uses a rechargeable battery to power the Thermo–Tex® Printed Heat, which converts electric current into radiant heat via the ink that is printed directly onto the liner of the jacket.

The stylish looking Heated Dream Jacket for Women has a slim fit cut and comes in two colors: True Black Plaid and Bright White Plaid. The jackets offers many dedicated pockets for goggles, ski pass, ATM, iPod/MP3 player and offers all the quality materials like Thermacore™ Insulation, DWR Coated Fabric and Microfleece Chin Saver. Available around the net as for example via this online store for $349.95

The choice is yours but keep in mind: the next winter comes for sure and better stay comfy warm than shivering.

We compiled a list of cool interactive fashion items that are on sale online. Maybe there is something for you to grab for the last few weeks of summer ahead of us.

Music and Sons offers a 30% discount of most of their fabulous looking MP3 Music T-Shirts. Made with the greatest care for the environment by using organic cotton and Bamboo fibers as well as adopting ‘Fair Wear’ principles to ensure slave labor and other unethical employment is excluded from the manufacturing process of all garments makes these T-Shirts a trendsetter in eco clothing as well as in our interactive fashion lineup.

Music and Sons MP3 T-Shirts make the cable management for your mobile device as easy as wearing a T-Shirt.

How about some workout in style?  The Numetrex Heart Rate Monitor Sports Bra goes for just $45.95 and the Men’s Cardio Shirt for $58.99

Having a good workout outdoors before the winter season starts is a good idea.

With the Numtrex line of textile sensor equipped heart rate sport apparel you can get in shape in the most comfortable and good looking way.

Want to be power grid independent? Have a look at the many Solar power bags on the market. Eclipse Solar Gear has their good looking Fusion TM Canvas Messenger Bag at a reduced price off $53.99, saving you almost 25%. The messenger bag has pockets for your cell phone and audio player as well as a large cavity for a laptop computer. Getting a free charge every other day is a nice thing, saves a bit off carbon and some money in your pocket.

These are just a few items out of the growing range of interactive apparel and bags. Getting a bit of savings once in a while is always welcome and we help you in searching around to save you also some valuable time and spare you from googling and running around for a bargain.

Extending our wearable display topic from yesterday, we found another amazing wearable display from a company called ‘EroGear‘.

But unlike to our story yesterday, EroGear is offering their wearable display integrated in any jacket of your choice.

Here are some of the impressive features EroGear is offering in their tailor made display jackets: a software package that takes still images and exports them into a proprietary format for use with EroGear displays. Video content is uploaded by first exporting a video file then running it through the software.

Three ways are on offer to create the display content. Inputing the text directly on the display controller for a scrolling ‘stock-ticker’ like text animation. Secondly, you can pre-render text or graphic using video rendering programs Apple’s Motion 3 or Adobe After Effects.

Thirdly, EroGear is working on a library of video content to be available for download like ring-tones for cell phones or CD-cover artwork in iTunes.

Other available options for a tailor made display jacket: DMX support for synchronization of multiple displays, the addition of an SD card for additional content storage and Audio reactivity which can trigger animations or text by audio signals. To complete the list of options, there is a control button on the display controller allowing the brightness adjustment of the display to make sure you are always the brightest spot in the universe.

All this is an amazing step towards wearable displays which transform our jackets into living, transformable clothing allowing a high degree of self-expression and customization.

Check out the video below, it shows a nice demonstration of the wearable LED Display from EroGear:

Your most burning question might be: ‘How much does it cost?’ It’s not easy to answer because it depends greatly on the size of the display you want.

EroGear gives as reference their first prototype as a example: an Armani Exchange lightweight running jacket with an 88×8 display resolution, a ‘lite’ display controller, a 2 hour battery and video patterns made by EroGear comes out for a total of around $900.-

Walking on light is getting very popular as yet another of our glow sneaker discoveries, the Miloni glow sneaker offered by Brooklyn based BS-Glow, highlights.

These exclusive sneakers look just great. The whole middle sole is illuminated giving you the feeling of walking on light.

The light can be switched on and off with two illumination effects possible: constantly on or in blinking mode, depending on how much attraction to want/need.

The illumination technology is powered by one AAA battery for each shoe stored in the inner sole and will allow the light to last for a long time – sorry I couldn’t find any specifics on actual hours just this statement from BS-Glow.

The Miloni sneaker come in an exquisite looking packaging that underlines the high quality the Miloni sneaker represent.

Being around since 2006, the Miloni sneaker have a dedicated follower ship mostly in the rapper scene where hip, funky, uber-cool gear is part of the culture.

Available in white for $339.95 and black for $349.99

BS-Glow’s Miloni are certainly the eye catching, ‘must show up with’ sneaker in the scene.

Walking on light seems to attract many people judging on the diverse range of products actually on the market, the range of glow shoe concepts that have been created and the enthusiasms many of the DIY folks show in upgrading their shoes with light effects.

When talking about solar bags we usually write about Solar Totes, Solar Messenger bags, Solar Backpacks but we never looked at Solar Bike bags which actually make a lot of sense considering they are most of the time directly facing the sun or at least the bright side of life.

I would think that Solar bags specially designed to be mounted on a bike rack are very likely to be a more solar energy effective solution even more so if you enjoy long ride through the country side.

Eclipse Solar Gear offers the Nomad Solar Bike Bag which will keep your cell phone, portable GPS unit, camera and other ‘on-the-go’ small electronic device charged while away from the power grid.

The bag has an integrated flexible solar panel that provides power to (trickle) charge directly your gadgets (similar to our DIY Solar bag).

Because there is no storage battery the charging will only work as long as there is sun or at least enough light hitting the solar panel. But again, the way a bike bag is used this should be no problem for most of your rides.

If you are a fan of night rides or enjoy riding in rainy weather you are out of luck, the charging will not work. Just want to highlight this here before you run ride and get this Solar Biker bag.

The Nomad Solar Bike Bag comes with a car cigarette lighter adapter so you need for your whatever device you want to connect a car cigarette light adapter. A bit wired as everyone and Eclipse Solar Gear assumes people have car cigarette lighter adapter in their standard gear portfolio.

This Solar Bike Bag offers quite some storage room by measuring 15″ x 11″ x 10″. A couple of pockets help to organize all the gadgets and other stuff you need for a ride.

The price is surprisingly low, available for just $129.95 directly by Eclipse Solar Gear or other online stores.

If you frequently take a ride on a bike you might want to have a closer look to this Solar bag as I think it really should do a good charging job most of the time you ride around town or back country.

We got covered sneakers with light up sole a couple of times but most of them are in the development stage or concept phase.

Somehow it slipped our attention that such Illuminated sneakers are out in the wild since last year, made by Jezign a innovative footwear company located in the Washington D.C. area.

Started by Jez Marston a young entrepreneur and founder of Jezign, the first launch was the ‘Night Eagle‘ Basketball sneaker. A cool design that rocks. Based on the first success in selling the Night Eagle, Jezign launched their second model called the ‘Bubble Cloud‘ line in Summer 2007.

The Bubble Cloud features a sole that completely illuminates at the push of a button. The magical light source, which is based on Jezign’s patented technology, is powered from a replaceable battery stored in the shoes tongue.

Jezign used top grade glove leather as basis material for their sneakers to give them maximum flexibility and wearing comfort. A nice touch for a innovative sneaker.

The obvious reason for having light in the shoe sole is safety but I think in the case of the Jezign design with it’s cool look and translucent effect which also highlights the Jezign brand name on the sole it’s definitely for the cool guys out on the street and dance floor.

The Bubble Cloud goes for a very reasonable $ 149.99 available in the color schemes White and White/Royal by finishline.com

Sorry girls, no model available yet for you but this might change soon. We will watch out and report back when Jezign is extending their line of Illuminated Sneakers.

Almost every other week a new sound pillow is hitting the stores. I am not sure if they are getting sold like hot cakes but it seems companies see a business opportunity in them.

The latest sound pillow comes from Sensorcom which is not the ‘typical’ pillow maker but a specialist in communication accessories such as high quality headphones.

Merging their expertise in high quality small speakers with a product everyone is using every day – a pillow – looks like a logical addition to their product line.

Two version are available: the Sleep Sound Stereo Pillow Insert to upgrade an existing pillow and the Sound Oasis Sleep Therapy Pillow which is the complete sound pillow solution. Pillows are very personal and if you do have your preferred brand you might better go for the upgrade kit.

Both versions include two ultra-thin high fidelity speakers positioned deep within the pillow for maximum comfort. A 3.5mm (1/8″) standard stereo mini-plug fits almost any portable device like MP3 player, CD-player, pocket radio.

One obvious reason for getting a pillow with integrated speaker is making a sleep therapy. Sure, there are other ways to get your therapeutic sound but with speakers integrated into the pillow it’s a soft and comfortable sound treatment.

I do not own a sound pillow (yet) but was curious to experience sound coming out of my pillow. I simulated the effect by putting a pocket radio with external speaker inside one of my nap pillows. My experience: it’s kind of ‘sweet’ having soft, soothing sound coming out of the innards of the pillow. I would not listen to my high energy sound tracks in this way but for dozing off with relaxing tunes – yes.

Whatever your motivation could be to consider buying one of the sound pillows, be it your curiosity or the fact you need your special ‘fall asleep’ sound, you can order the Sleep Sound Stereo Pillow Insert for $69.95 or the Sound Oasis Sleep Therapy Pillow for $59.95

[via: Cool Hunting]

We have another suggestion for a sensible Father’s Day gift: a WiFi detecting T-Shirt for the fun loving, cool, techie Dad.

Flashwear keeps on extending their animated T-Shirts and offers now many different styles of their WiFi detecting T-Shirt collection ensuring there will be one style that suits you.

These Tee’s are the perfect little gizmo when it comes to find a WiFi signal. Checking for a WiFi signal with a T-Shirt makes more fun than switching on your notebook or WiFi signal sniffer.

You can also show your social responsibility the all other net-citizen around you which will appreciate your signal broadcast on your chest.

The Tee displays the strength of 802.11b & 802.11g signals. The electronic part is integrated into a small battery pack which holds also the 3x AAA batteries required to light up your chest/T-Shirt. The decal is removable to allow the cleaning of the Tee.

Flashwear sells the WiFi detector T-Shirts for $ 47.48 directly via their online store.

Get your Dad something sensible this year. Believe me, he has already enough socks and ties

A new solar bag emerged just in time for the summer sun season, the Miles Solar Backpack from O-range.

This solar bag has all the attributes one is expecting from an Italian made product: beautiful design, high quality materials and love for details.

Italian based O-range is a design studio specializing in the creation of products related to the sport world. The O-rang bag project started in 2000 out of the passion O-rang’s design team has for traveling in innovative style.

They created a range of beautifully functional travel bags called ‘Departure’ for the sophisticated traveler and started adding the Miles Solar Backpack as the first model of the ‘Energy Independent’ range.

Using a flexible Solar panel which seamless melts into the bags design gives it the sophisticated travel look.

The many compartments and pockets at the inside of the backpack allows a well structured organization of all your stuff, easy to find back without turning the bag upside down.

A battery pack with load indicator keeps on sucking up all the energy the solar panel collects and a wide range of different tips guaranty that any and every of the common electronic devices can be connected and charged.

The excellent workmanship makes the Miles Solar Backpack more like a piece of art than an ‘ordinary’ backpack.

Get ready of your next trip in style, the Miles Solar Backpack is available for € 240.- (around $ 377.-) directly via the O-range online shop.