Email-Counting T-Shirt: T is for “Too Much Tech in This”
April 5th, 2010
Chris Ball and his wife Madeleine created an email-counting shirt. If you’re looking for a valid justification for the existence of a shirt that can count new emails in binary form then you must be new to technabob. Welcome! And remember, hackers and tinkerers don’t ask why. They ask what if.
The Lilypad Arduino on the shirt is paired with a Bluetooth dongle (the red “stalk” in the middle of the Lilypad). When Chris gets new email, his Android phone sends a signal to the Lilypad, which then activates the light or lights that will add up to his total number of new emails.
This would be way cooler if Chris could make it work over long distances. Or if the shirt electrically shocked him everytime a new message comes in, for as many times as the number of new messages. What do you think, Mrs. Ball? 
[via Forever Geek]
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It does work over long distances though, right? At least anywhere his phone has reception.
I meant if the shirt could receive signals from his phone over long distances.:D Right now it can’t possibly have a range of more than 100 meters because it’s using a Bluetooth dongle.
That’s a fair criticism
. Of course, without using a phone the project would have probably been much more complicated/expensive. The way I looked at it was, when am I wearing a shirt but not carrying my phone, and still want to know how many email messages I have?
My mom would need a 300+ count, she never checks her email
i think cloning a human is rediculous!!! this can be harmful to humanity in the future. i wouldnt agree on more espicailly cloning human robots with human emotions. its freaky and soo not cool 4 humanity!
Profoundly true!