Found this great link on Engadget with a guy turning his T-Shirt into an email alert shirt-o-awesome. He used an Arduino Lilypad but you could easily use a ProMini which in my opinion are smaller, cheaper and better.
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.
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Anonymous commented on 06-Apr-2010 11:14 AM
