T-shirt modded to let you know when you have new emails, won't tell you why your friends are avoiding you
By Laura June 
posted March 30th 2010 12:51PM
posted March 30th 2010 12:51PM
You probably don't have enough reminders that you're always a little behind, right? Well Chris and his wife Madeline decided to make one more for themselves: a t-shirt that lights up when you have new emails, and also tells you the number in your inbox. Using an Arduino Lilypad microcontroller, a few LEDs, conductive thread, and a Bluetooth dongle to communicate with an Android phone nearby (which has access to the inbox), Chris took a custom printed shirt and rigged up this badboy. It's actually pretty good looking as far as these things go, but we still don't know if we need this in our already alert-ridden lives. Regardless, the video's after the break if you're thinking about cobbling together your own.
[Thanks, Juergen ]
[Thanks, Juergen ]
or you could get a phone.
@cameronsipod
My Gmail account along with Google Buzz will make this tshirt explode.
I think I would like to keep the hair in my chest that took 28 years to grow.
@cameronsipod Or he can start working on my tank suit, I'm going to need it when the LHC goes Boom boom pow and we end up in a deap space.
@metaesapuet
seriously, i need a shirt that goes up to around 700 or so for all the email boxes i monitor.
@cameronsipod
Wait 'til you see what his underwear does when he gets a IM ...
@cameronsipod
Wait til someone wears that in an airport. Go ahead, I dare ya.
i guess you wont be wearing it in the rain
@billobob I hope he won't be wearing it in public
@billobob I wonder? What's the caution says on the tag.
Do not soak
Do not bleach
Do not iron
Do not dry clean
Do not wash at all !?
You'll end up getting some "stinking emails" … spams notifications.
i hope you cut your nasty nails.
Engadget forgot to include the name of the shirt. It's called "Chick repellent 1G"
Great article title.
@Anatidae
how lucky of him to find the only girl who is equally interested in making something so... "useful"
I want one of those so that I can know when that guy has email
Sounds like I forgot to slap someone...
"honey, where's my shirt?"
"it's in the wash... why?"
@h04 Oh Shi-
@h04 like that guy has anyone to call "honey", let alone do his laundry for him
@rekit Try watching the video before you comment. He and his WIFE made the t-shirt lol.
@rekit
Mother perhaps?
Can't use this in the airports, security will take you down
@mailbox01
Can't wear this in public.
Normal people will take you down.
@FORDY
Tell that to ThinkGeek.... I'm sure they will be selling them inside 2 weeks.... causing me to have to expand my collection of battery powered tshirts(maybe not)
That can't be comfortable.
Wharf, get to the bridge.
That guy needs to hit the gym. "He looks like a girly man."
Hey, leave Steven Hawkings alone
The light clearly is just informing him on the number of friends he has while wearing that shirt...it defaults at one since his wife is obligated to remain his friend.
Close encounters of the other kind......
My sources tell me this isn't a 20 something year old Steven Hawking. Damn mechanical eyes
If u get 64 mail while ur watchin porn, it'll be like a double stand up :)
Just goes to show how much free time you can gain by not having a Significant Other.
@edf
According to the guy in the video he does have a significant other though..
His [fictitious] wife Madeline..
emails 53
text msgs 4
facebok msgs 1211
twitter 371
real friend in life NONE
@htd Well beside his wife, but in the end I guess she did make that "till death do us part" promise.
@fperennes
Cant you see him holding her up in the photo?
His girlfriend must be a great geek.
I want one, even if I never look at it.
@stevewoz
You mean his hand?
You may call me IronMan
All the haters are just jealous. What mildly interesting concoction have you recently come up with that has made it onto Engadget? Um....
Ya know, I can do the same damn thing and not look like an idiotic nerd with my cell phone....
Give this guy something to eat!
he probably own a snuggie too...
It tells EVERYONE ELSE that you have an email unless you look in the mirror all day
Which if you think you need to use this shirt you may as well do
wow i'm amazed.. that he's married
@transtwister agreed, but still... I want one of those shirts =)
and yes, I am amazed that I am married as well =)
I kinda want one! though I'd want one as a wrist band or something similar... Ohh and twitter replies and direct messages rather than emails cuz junk mails would fill that up too fast!
Don't wear this in a Boston airport.
It's nice to see someone found a chick who actually shares his love of tech.
i don't condone violence but if this guy gets his a$$ kicked
i understand