T-shirt that keeps a count of your unread E-mails

You can't stop people from thinking creatively. This is how technology grows, by thinking out of the box. Take the example of this T-shirt, which is the work of Madeline and Chris Ball, lead software engineer for one laptop per child, that counts unread emails for you. It was just a fun thing, but I probably won't mind wearing something like this .

Chris and Madeline made use of Arduino Lilypad and Bluetooth dongle for the t-shirt hardware and an Android phone to sent the number of unread emails to the shirt. Take a look at this pic.

Here's a Video too.

Technology is growing at such an advanced rate, I believe sooner or later we will have gadget sewed all over our clothing to manage our daily tasks(reading emails or tweeting, who knows). Well, thats it for this week's trendy tuesday, see you next week.

Source: Chris's Blog

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