Officially endorsed by the Japanese Military, these “Japan Self-Defense Force Sunglasses” really need to be worn by the Terminator for true authenticity purposes.

Apparently capable of withstanding impact from 6.5mm object traveling at a speed of 106 MPH, so I don’t know why the above picture shows a bullet racing towards these cool guy shades.  After all a bullet travels up to 1000 MPH, and the general force of impact on your head would give you beyond a hectic whiplash, exorcist style.

So while these shades will probably work wonders with shrapnel, don’t buy these because you think they will take a bullet.  And definitely don’t attempt a cool YouTube video demonstrating how tough they are.  Now priced at $317

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According to Burton, people in mittens can’t hold cans or bottles of soda, beer or whatever beverage you please.  Why?  Otherwise they wouldn’t have produced the overly useless Vice Mittens.  They features a zipper that yup, zips to reveal a built-in cozy system.  I guess if you’re willing to wear these let alone spend the $70 on them you better have a penchant for excessive libation consumption.

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Design firm Storm out of London has created a very cyber friendly watch that should appeal to futurists everywhere.  This stainless steel watch uses bright red LED’s to display the time, and will definitely make you stand out in night life scenarios.

Priced at $200, it just may be cheap enough that that watch connoisseur could have one of these in addition to all the other cool watches he already owns.  What would make this watch a lot cooler would be a matching prosthetic arm to go with it.

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Halloween transpired 16 days ago, but that doesn’t mean it ain’t too late to pick up some Day Of The Dead inspired gear.  The Black Rhino Jason Hoodie By Marc Ecko, much like the Star Wars hoodie we saw last year, zips all the way up to create the illusion of wearing a Jason Voorhees jacket and mask complete with leather straps.  You can grab it for $98, but you’ll get free shipping at $100.

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I love Thanko.  There’s just no two ways about it.  These guys clock out some of the craziest ideas in gadgetry with a straight face, and I love picking them up to talk about them.

Today I’ve got a real winner–USB powered fingertipless gloves.

No, seriously.  Gloves, with internal heating coils, powered by a USB drive and missing the tops of the fingers to make your typing easier.

You see what I mean about how it just LOOKS like a stupid idea?  Who needs gloves indoors, right?  Nobody, really.  But here’s the kicker–heat on your hands can loosen muscles.  Like the muscles you’re using to type, for example.  These gloves could be a way to beat carpal tunnel syndrome before it even starts.  I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but it sure sounds feasible to me!

And if you actually want a pair of these winners, you can lay hands on them for right around thirty bucks a pair.

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With Solar Power being about the greenest energy around, it still takes way too long.  These new bags from Mascotte Industrial Associates of Hong Kong use DSSC (Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells) technology to effectively store and convert solar power so your can charge your gadgets on your own time.

I really like the utilitarian approach to these bags but can’t help but think about the restless anxiety of waiting around for this bag to fully charge.  No word yet on pricing or availability but if your looking for a new bag anyway you may want to wait on these.

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Die hard surfers surf year round regardless of the weather, here in SoCal that is.  And yes, despite our southern location it does get quite frigid at times.  So what’s a surfer to do?  Enter Rip Curl’s H-Bomb heated wetsuit.

Powered by two Lithium-ion, 7.4 volt batteries, the H-Bomb has a set of carbon fiber heating coils that can produce up to 3 hours of body warming heat on a single charge.  Because they’re made of carbon fiber they’re flexible and won’t corrode if exposed to the water.

But like all things ultra cool (or hot in this case) there’s a significant cost to entry: $1,000.

Video after the ‘leap’

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Watches are quite the man-made marvel.  So tiny, yet so complex and precise, I have no idea what is the appropriate way to price a watch.  This absolutely stunning Arena Metasonic watch is something that would probably make Bond himself get spinal tingles.

Before you start thinking about buying this lovely, let me unleash the price. $900,000!!!  Despite the extreme attention to detail is there anyway anybody could justify a purchase like this?   The underneath view is spectacular and I love to see one of these in person.

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Wanna wail like a true rocker?  Well, then send yourself off to some sort of institute, because nothing but hard work and practice will get you there.  But if you wanna jump on the bandwagon of guitar novelty the Electronic Rock Guitar Shirts should fit the bill.

Using a magnetic pick and the included mini amp, the shirt actually plays chords and notes recorded from an actual guitar.  ThinkGeek has them for $30.  Check the video after the ‘leap’

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With winter fast approaching and the cold weather coming to match, you may well start to wonder how you’re going to keep your hands warm and still manage to work your iPod and whatnot.  Clearly you can’t hold a stylus in your mitten, and gloves are nice, but their fingers are way too big for a touchscreen.

Enter the Etre Touchy line of gloves, themselves a gadget, because they’re simultaneously fingered and fingerless.  More specifically, they’re missing their thumb and index finger.

You may wonder why you’d want to pay $33 for a pair of gloves that are missing a finger and a thumb.  I don’t much like to bandy around the phrase “doomed for failure”, because you never really know what’ll take off.

But I really can’t see this working, especially when you could crack out the scissors and make your own pair for much, MUCH, less money. Are they preparing for a slew of patent infringement lawsuits for anyone who makes their own at home?

In all honesty, I’m not sure why the makers of the Etre Touchy didn’t think of that either, but I guess it just doesn’t make for as entertaining a story.

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I thought Thanko represented the weirdest gadgets Japan had to offer until I heard about Chindogu, a concept that describes that special kind of gadget that defies all description.  You read about one such gadget right here with the Baby Mop, a onesie that featured dust mop fibers, allowing your baby to crawl around freely and clean the floor while doing so.

Another Chindogu gadget is the Hay Fever Hat, a picture of which you can see directly above.  It’s basically a toilet paper roll mounted to a hat, so that the toilet paper flows down your face and allows you easy access to a way to blow your nose, as well as possibly being able to block sneezes.  It’s enough to make you wonder if someone’s just trying to pull one over on us.

As useful as it is to have an easily reached quantity of nose wipes handy, especially during hay fever season, there’s no way to avoid the fact that anyone wearing this hat winds up looking like a complete tool.  That and the paper in question is actually toilet paper, so you’re basically wandering around with a roll of toilet paper on your head, plus the hat is chinstrapped into place, so now you need a chin strap to cart around your roll of toilet paper.

This kind of thing apparently only happens in Japan, because I’ve never seen anyone walk around with one of these on their head, and I visit Wal-Mart on a regular basis.

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These pictures are merely serving as a teaser and pricing and availability has yet to be announced.  I’d expect that there are more pictures to surface soon, cuz you know there’s a hairy Chewbacca watch for sure.  An R2D2 would also be an easy one too.

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Alternative watches may soon become all the rage so it may be in your best interest to stay abreast of up and coming weird watch tech.  This one from Nooka is called ZAZ and takes a more simple approach to the alternative timepiece.  As you can see in the picture, hours are represented by blocks and minutes and seconds through stacked dashes with incremental indicators.

The face of the watch is silver but the bands can be of three different colors: black, white leather, or a silver mesh.  No word on price or release date.  Cool or not cool?

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The Rationalizer is slated to be the newest tool in a stock trader’s arsenal, but when you hear about it, you might find it just a little familiar.  You fasten a small bracelet to your wrist, and the wrist measures stuff like skin temperature and galvanic skin responses and whatnot to show you how your emotions are acting in a certain situation.  It shows you by–get this!–sending a radio signal to a nearby bowl.  The bowl then glows a certain color, giving you a graphic representation of how you feel.

Yes, folks, it seems as though the MOOD RING has made a comeback.  This time, of course, it’s a bit different and way more high tech, but it’s still kind of cool.  The Rationalizer can show you, visually, when you’re starting to get a little hopped up emotionally.  From there, you can take a break.  I personally think this is a fantastic idea, and wouldn’t mind having my own emergency mood display in case.

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2 Love My Lips is already an established lip gloss and cosmetics company that is now offering roofie test strips when you buy a lip gloss container.  Having known someone who was recently roofied, I can’t help but think how important it is for a woman to carry these around in her purse.  Just as long as she is coherent enough to remember to use it.

Capable of testing for such date rape drugs as GHB or Ketamine, even dude friends should have these.  They should actually be free and readily available.

On sale now in Europe, it will be around $16 when it makes its way to the US.

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In an effort to “keep they heads ringing”, this new Equaliser music hat uses a sound reactive blue luminescent display to actively show the world around you that you’re listening to music by a constant surge of ascending and descending lights you’d typically associate with a digital equalizer.  Nice giant sentence I just cultivated!

Looking a a bit to close to the WiFi symbol, you’ll probably be mistaken for some type of roving bandwidth experiment.  To that effect, this could work it’s way into someone’s creative Halloween costume no diggity.

As you can see from the picture, all you do is plug your MP3 player in and the hat will play the music back through embedded speakers and also do a little EQ light show.

You can pre-order the hat now but stock won’t filled until next week.  The pricing is at $32

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Priced at about $1200, the DOGN watch is available in brushed rose gold, polished steel, and high gloss black.  The Riddler would probably excited to rock one of these clocks, and he would be the only person I wouldn’t have to judge for having one.

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I’m an avid bike rider and attend the good old gym on a regular basis. One thing I’ve long failed to do is keep track of my workouts – I don’t even have a little black book to record my mileage or ’sets’ completed. Enter the Garmin Forerunner 310XT.

The Forerunner 310XT is Garmin’s first fully fledged GPS watch to offer not only a myriad of workout and tracking options, but is waterproof up to 50m. Aesthetically it’s a bit on the large side, but that lends itself to a reasonably large screen, all things relative of course. The wrist band is finished in bright orange, so there’s no mistaking this thing for anything but a workout watch, although I’m relatively confident that runners and triathlon nuts could get away with wearing it year round, though they might be a bit hampered by its 20 hour battery life.

And despite that sounding like a short battery life I assure you it’s not, especially if you use the Forerunner 310XT specifically for your workouts. To streamline the charging process Garmin has included a clothespin like charger that grasps the 310XT at two contact points, making charging the device a snap (pardon the pun).

Function wise the 310XT really delivers. It’s waterproof, so Triathloners will like its ability to go from the water, to the bike (there’s an optional bike mount) to the run. If you so chose you can even set it up to transition in between these sports and keep track of your time in between each transition so you don’t cheat your stats. I primarily used the 310XT while biking and lifting weights and despite it being largely designed for running, swimming and biking it still was a great compliment to my muscle building routine.

The Garmin Forerunner 310XT can track calories, heart rate (strap included – works wirelessly) distance, speed, cadence (optional bike attachment needed) and pace. It can set you back to a desired location or race you against a virtual opponent using stored info about your previous workouts.

And the features don’t end there. Included is a USB stick that wirelessly connects the 310XT to your computer when placed within a close proximity. You’ll need to fire up the included software and register for a Garmin Connect account, but once you’ve done that you’re work out info is automatically uploaded to the web where you can view graphs and charts; all the stuff that could potentially make you into a super human athlete.

Much like many of today’s cell phones the 310XT is equipped with a vibrator alert that can also be paired with audible alerts. This is ideal for those of you that like to exercise with headphones on and would like to stay aware of your lap or pace alerts, or just don’t want to disturb fellow athletes.

For each sport you have the option of going with a standard screen, or if you so chose you can add more or less data fields depending on your goals and what info you want to be able to view at a glance. For weight lifting I opted for time of day, timer, heart rate and calories burned. For cycling, though, I modified the screen to display distance, speed, timer and heart rate. Again, it’s all customizable with up to 4 data fields per screen and the option for multiple screens that can be cycled through at the push of a button.

Turning on the screen’s backlight is as simple as clicking the power button – hold it down and it turns the device on or off.  Holding the ‘mode’ and up arrow locks the keys.  These are just a few of the intuitive controls found on the 310XT, which is a good example of how easy it is to use the device. It took me a bit of time to become familiar with all its options and menus, but depending on your workouts and goals you’ll find the ones you need to use after just a few uses. I didn’t try my hand at the interval training, which allows you to set goals, such as distance and time, and although I’m sure these functions are useful for the hard core cardio trainer, I’m just not cut from that cloth.

Downloading the data from the 310XT computer doesn’t happen at a blazing speed, but if done regularly it shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. I left my data stored in the watch for a few weeks and the initial sink took sometime. Not only can you view your data but you can explore fellow Forerunner’s workouts, such as the location and distance of their runs or bike rides. You’re able to search by location and if you so choose you can download their workouts to the 310XT for a virtual opponent. This is a brilliant piece of social engineering and really makes the $350 investment in the device all the more worth it. If that’s not enough to satisfy your insatiable thirst for data, you can also view your total workouts by week or view them in a calendar.

Look, I could pretty much go on all day and after using the Garmin Forerunner 310XT for well over 4 weeks I don’t even begin to feel as if I’ve scratched the surface of the device’s full potential. The price tag is a bit steep ($350), but the sheer amount of use and utility you’ll get out of this GPS infused device will easily pay for itself. It’s one thing to track your workouts by writing them down in a log book, but it’s a whole new planet of physical exercise and well being when you can create, collaborate and track everything with one simple device that requires little to no manual input. My only gripe with the 310XT is that the software kept asking me to install the plug into my computer, but that was more a result of Safari’s lack of compatibility than anything else.

Do your body a favor, especially if you’re an avid biker or triathonler and pick up a Forerunner 310XT.

Pros:

• Tracks your workouts without manual input
• Solid build and design
• Easy to use

Cons:

• Software plugin not compatible with Safari
• Somewhat limited battery life

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It was just Monday that we saw Columbia’s Bugathermo heated boots.  But honestly, in retrospect, those fell short on the complete package, especially after bearing witness to Mountain Hardware’s Refugium (men’s) and Radiance (women’s) jackets.

Hidden in the inner lining is an array of flexible lithium-ion batteries that provide power to 3 heating sources – 2 in the front and 1 in the back.  But wait, there’s more!  Located in the front left pocket is a USB output that can provide power to any gadget that requires 10 watts or less of power; so think phone, MP3 player and other small gadgets.  The jackets have 3 temperature settings and can provide up to 8.5 hours of continuous heat.  Both versions are available now and cost $374 with the necessary battery pack, or $229 without – ouch either way.

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What else can be said about these cufflinks that’s not already going through your mind?  Pimp, swank, debonair, lavish, overindulgent, and d-bag are all ways to describe how you might be perceived at your next ultra-lounge outing.  Note that you must disconnect the cuffllink before lighting.

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