All Entries Tagged With: "cool accessories"
Tire Belt Uses Discarded Bike Tires To Hold Your Pants Up
Even bicycle tires don’t need to end up in a landfill after they’ve blown past their useful life. The Tire Belt shows off one way to do it, upcycling erstwhile trash heap fodder into a fashionable-looking accessory.
Creator Julien Jaborska, a self-professed bike-riding fanatic, scours junk piles, bike shop garbage bins and other places where bicycle refuse ends up for his finds. His creations are sourced from a gamut of bicycle types, with pieces crafted out of tires from BMX bikes, mountain bikes, cyclocross bikes and whatever else he can get his hands on.
Naturally, each Tire Belt differs in design, colors and materials, depending on the original tires they were sliced out of. As a result, some end up looking more awesome than others. He adds black rubber for backing on every inch-wide belt, along with a buckle made from nickel-plated steel.
All belts get seven holes apiece, each one an inch [...]
Unbreakable Umbrella Won’t Break Its Frame, Will Break Your Bones
I’ve had umbrellas turn over and give out during heavy winds. However, I’ve never really had one break on me before. That’s why the Unbreakable Umbrella sort of confused me. What the heck does a rain-protecting canopy have to do to deserve the name?
As it turns out, it’s bordering on awesome. While the Unbreakable Umbrella shields you from drizzles like any regular self-respecting bumbershoot does, it’s real value is as a self-defense weapon. According to the creators, the thing whacks as strong as a steel pipe, potentially rendering attackers unconscious with a powerful-enough swipe (or, at the least, grimacing in pain).
What’s cool, though, is the fact that it looks nothing other than a regular umbrella. In fact, it weighs a mere 775 grams, while packing no more metal than any similar implement you can pick off any store shelf. With the main stick built out of durable ABS composite material, [...]
Mattress Wallet Gives Your Cash A Cushy Bed
I’ve always wanted to sleep in a bed of money. While I doubt that’s possible with my bank account’s less-than-stellar remaining balance, the Mattress Wallet sort of gets me started along the way. Instead of filling my bed with money, though, it lets me wrap my cash with a bed, instead. What?
Veering away from the usual leather material used to hold your bills and cards, the odd-looking wallet is clad in an authentic mattress design. From the material to the color to the hanging labels, the Mattress Wallet looks more like a miniaturized bed than anything you’re supposed to slip inside your back pocket.
Intended to give your cash the “support and comfort” it deserves, the unusual wallet comes with 5mm of cushion and a soft satin interior that should keep everything you slot inside feeling just a little bit snug. It measures 9 x 4 inches, making it a proper-sized [...]
Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink, Even If You Don’t Want To
Blinking sucks. One moment you’re keeping a watchful eye for Japanese soldiers on World At War; one blink later, you’re being slaughtered like tomorrow’s sushi.
Despite the disastrous downside on your game, blinking is a necessary activity. Doing it too infrequently can dry out and fatigue the eyes, eventually leading to poor eyesight and other optical problems. At the end of the day, that just makes you a shittier gamer.
Not that it’s entirely your fault.
When the eyes are focused on any object for an extended period of time, the rate of blinking just naturally decreases on its own. This holds true, whether you’re reading a gripping novel or hunting down enemy soldiers on an FPS. As such, you can imagine the amount of damage a three-day marathon in front of the computer can do.
Japan’s Masunaga Optical Manufacturing seeks to offer a solution with their Wink Glasses, a pair of spectacles that [...]
Pocket Speaker Turns You Into Human Noise Pollution
Want portable music, but don’t like earphones, for some reason? Arm your shirt pocket with a speaker and get your favorite music blaring right from under your face.
ABC Corp Japan’s Pocket Speaker will gladly step up to the task, offering to surround your immediate environment with music, without having to don a pair of cans. Just like pocket protectors did for nerds many years ago, they want to line the shirts of the new generation of music geeks, particularly those obnoxious enough to have blaring music without regard for anyone around them.
The Pocket Speakers sport 80 × 34 × 32 mm dimensions and are sized just so the speaker head peeks right out of the shirt pouch when kept standing. It weighs a light 50 grams, so it won’t be ripping the pockets off from even the cheapest shirts you’ve got on your closet. It should work with any type [...]
Aluminum Travel Watch Tube Lets You Bring An Entourage Of Expensive Timepieces
Where do you keep your watches when you travel? If you like to bring along more than what you’re rocking on your wrist, you might want to consider the Bamford & Sons Aluminum Travel Watch Tube, an easy-to-carry canister that will keep your backup timepieces secure.
Designed for luxury watches, the stylish capsule is configured to preserve your favorite accessories’ pristine and undamaged condition throughout the trip. It offers comfortable space for up to four watches at a time, all wrapped securely on a soft calf roll. The compact form factor lets it slip into your luggage or hand-carry bags, without causing much trouble.
The Aluminum Travel Watch Tube’s chassis is made out of anodized aluminum for ample protection, laden with a stylish black gloss finish. Interior is lined with neoprene and features an integral locking mechanism. Other special fittings include support legs (for showing off the watch when [...]
