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The Snuggie is a blanket with sleeves. What the hell is that, you ask? Oh, only something anyone who’s ever been cold will appreciate.
It goes like this: for whatever reason, you’re in a place with insufficient heating. You want to read a book, or drink a cup of tea, or use a computer, while also keeping warm. A blanket will help, of course… until you move and it falls off your shoulders. Or you poke your arms out and get cold again. The Snuggie solves all this by cunningly attaching two sleeves to a regular fleece blanket, so you can now be warm and use your hands at the same time. it actually looks a lot like a very loose robe, which makes it very comfortable to actually wear around the house.
As far as I can see, there’s only one reason not to get one: it looks kind of silly. However, most people will want to use it in their own homes, and who cares about fashion when snuggling with a book in bed?
The video below shows it in action. As much “in action” a blanket/robe can be, at least.
It’s cold. Very cold. Going from 95 to 60 degrees isn’t fun, and this is telling us winter is coming. Depending on the area you’re in, this will mean anything from slightly lower temperatures to massive snowstorms.
For the tech lovers, this also means something else: the end of touch screens. They won’t explode in a puff of smoke, no, but if you want to keep your hands warm you’ll need gloves, which don’t play well with your iPhone. Enter the Dots Gloves.
True to the name, they have small round metal dots on the fingers for better contact with the gadgets. You can choose between 3 models: dots on thumb, index and middle finger, index only or thumb only. Of course, the use is not restricted to touch screens… there’s many other activities that need more precision than a pair of gloves can offer.
This is not a funny t-shirt. It’s not geeky, doesn’t have a connection to any video game or a witty message. It invites thought.
The Fossil Fuel t-shirt has a beautiful design that reflects the times. The world moves on and we are insignificant on a planetary scale; ancient animals and vegetation died to give us fuel, but who knows who we will be fueling in a billion years? Probably not the dinosaurs, but it would be a nice reversal.
Of course, this is just one interpretation. Everyone can find their own. Or just look at the pretty t-shirt.
The rendition of evolution that uses several ancestors of Homo Sapiens Sapiens lining up one after the other has been used so many times it’s instantly recognizable to most of us. But what if the poor modern man gets sick of it one day?
The answer is on the Evolution is Following Me t-shirt. Honestly, having a couple of cavemen walking after you day in and day out can be stressful. And our higher IQ lets us express our frustrations very eloquently, so I for one congratulate the guy. Why should he suffer for our sense of fashion?
Uh, no, it actually doesn’t. Notice that the letters look a bit funny? It’s not a special font; they’re actually music symbols. The “o” is actually a “flat” symbol, and the “b” is a “semibreve”, so the this ‘Boob’ Music t-shirt does not refer to a woman’s mammary glands.
Naturally, something like this is best appreciated among musicians who get it without further explanations. For the rest of the world, a girl wearing this would simply be stating the obvious. But the girl in question can just write them off as ignorants and go on proudly displaying her love of music. Screw the world, this is too funny to pass up.
Yesterday was Star Trek’s birthday; on September 8, 1966 the world first saw the Enterprise boldly go where no one had gone before.
I don’t even like Star Trek, really. After years of reading SF it’s too simplistic and clichéd. But even I can’t deny it had a huge influence and that I probably wouldn’t be enjoying Battlestar Galactica right now if it weren’t for Captain Kirk and his crew (though I like Picard better).
42 years later, the consumerist society can celebrate by buying a t-shirt. You need the Star Trek ‘Know Your Spock’ t-shirt, really. How else would you tell which Spock is good and which is evil? Your life could depend on it. Go watch some old episodes wearing this, you know you want to.
One of the easiest way of attracting attention among strangers is with clothing. But there’s a thin line between positive and negative attention, between “hey, that’s cool!” and “oh my God, that looks awful”, and it takes guts and style to pull off wacky combinations.
For someone with both, the Crime of Passion Scarf is a perfect piece. It looks unusual enough to get people staring, but still normal enough to avoid being labeled a weirdo. “Crime Scene. Do Not Cross.” is not a text anyone would expect written on a scarf, so heads will turn.
But the hardest part, matching the rest of the outfitm is the wearer’s task. Only recommended to girls/guys with a strong sense of their personal style.
I loved the Things That Glow t-shirt from the moment I saw it. Just look at those sketchy drawings! And the radioactive potato is so funny.
Then I figured out that it really glows in the dark and I was “oooooh”-ing on another level. It stopped being a nice t-shirt and moved into awesome land.
So, what does glow? Insects (not all of them, unless they come from Chernobyl), TV, skellingtons (nice pun there), rockets, radioactive potatos (yay! although you shouldn’t eat them), mushrooms (hmm…), the moon and much more. Click the link and see the t-shirt for them all, since the tiny picture in here doesn’t do it justice.
Geeky clothing is very easy to find. A quick google will result in dozens of websites offering the most varied t-shirts possible. But going beyond t-shirts is a bit more complicated, since the range of products gets narrower.
Despite this apparent issue, other pieces of interesting clothing surface from time to time. Take the Robots Thong and Robots Balconette set: robots, hearts and lightning bolts, geeky and girly at the same time, and definitely something else.
It might not tear the geek in your life from his computer screen, but since your underwear will feature something familiar to him it might attract his attention long enough to understand that real girl in front of him is better than some pixels.
Unless the pixels are the new Lara Croft.
How much under $29.99?
A lot: $5.99 for the thong and $9.99 for the bra on Tillys.com.
Monty Python fan-girliness alert! I sometimes get too excited when it comes to my favorite things, and since I just saw Holy Grail (again) yesterday…
The Killer Bunny t-shirt is one of the rare ones that are funny both for people how know what it references and people who don’t. For the Python fans, the rabbit of Caerbannog is one of the best scenes in the movie, but even non-fans can appreciate the contrast between a cute fluffy white bunny and the blood and gore.
Unless you’ve got a Holy Hand Grenade, Sir Robin’s approach to anything is the best: Run away!
(Sing with me: Brave Sir Robin ran away… bravely ran away away…)
The Snuggie is a blanket with sleeves. What the hell is that, you ask? Oh, only something anyone who’s ever been cold will appreciate.
