Liquid Cooled Clothes - The Cool Shirt

At first glance, I thought this shirt was designed to be a hydration system for racers. I was only half right. It’s meant for racers, but not the running kind. The Cool Shirt is supposed to cool down a very hot driver. It connects to an ice-water cooler and circulates the freezing water through its stitched tubing. As gimmicky as it looks, it is actually used by race car drivers to prevent dehydration.

It looks a lot like the monitoring Smart Shirts, but shares more functionality with the USB air-conditioned shirts…

USB Powered Clothes

One of the latest inventions to come from Japan are USB powered air conditioned clothes. The clothes have two 10cm fans located on the sides of clothing. Apparently “these fans draw in a large amount of air which helps to vaporise thus dissipating sweat and bringing down the wearers’ body temper… [More]

Smart Shirt - Monitor Heart Rate, EKG, Temperature and More

Can your t-shirt tell you your heart rate, EKG, temperature? This is not normal t-shirt but a smart shirt. This shirt is a co-op project by US-based Georgia Tech Research Corporation and SensaTex Inc-which is a textile engineering company. This smart t-shirt was designed to monitor the your heart ra… [More]