Feel like owning a piece of golfing history? Currently lacking a watch? If you fall into the centre of that rather obscure Venn diagram, then what you need is the Seve Ballesteros golf watch pictured above. It's made of the bits of the golf clubs that ol' Seve used in his five under par victory at the Chunichi Crown Open in Japan back in 1991.

Of course, there's only so many clubs that Ballesteros used back then, nine irons, a pitching wedge and a sand wedge, to be precise, so the watch comes in a limited edition of 50. It's got a hole counter and a stroke counter, though the stroke counter only goes up to ten. It'll be released in November, and cost a whopping 21,500 Swiss Francs (£11,340). Each comes with the name of the club used to make it engraved on the back.

Seve Ballesteros Golf Watch (via Gizmag)

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Here's some nifty concept sunglasses from Nike which curve your field of vision, so you can actually (sort-of) see behind you! Normal field of view is 180°, but this extends that 25° on each side, giving you an effective 230° vision range. Useful for seeing that taxi that's about to knock you over. Nike say:

"To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process."

These beauties remain just a concept product. Sorry, but you won't be getting your hands on them just yet, but in the future, who knows?

Nike (via CrunchGear)

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To the right, delightfully arranged in a gentleman's breast pocket, is a hankerchief made out of Kevlar. Yes, the bulletproof, five-times-stronger-than-steel, para-aramid wonder-material.

Slightly ridiculous? Yes. Luckily, to keep the ridiculousness quotient of the world safely low, they're only making ten, but even so. Who really needs a hankerchief that can stop a bullet?

The manufacturer says that it bears no responsibility for any "schmucks and wooden-heads who feel compelled to test the endurance or resistance of the textile in any way." That's you told.

Kevlar Hankie (via Engadget)

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According to some scientist, humans have stopped evolving. This means we're not going to get any better - at least not naturally.

So I propose science steps in to make us better, seeing as Mother Nature can't be bothered any more. Here's how. These are the evolutionary steps scientists need to introduce to our gene pool ASAP.

1. SIDE EYES Seeing as our ears are always in use listening to MP3s of 1980s cover versions, it's hard to hear cars, bicycles and lorries coming toward you. I therefore suggest moving our eyes to the sides of our heads, like horses, so we're less likely to step out in front of buses because we can't hear them coming. You never hear about horses getting run over because they're too busy listening to the new Oasis album to listen out for cars, do you?

2. WIDER EAR CANALS Dunno about you, but my ear holes are never big enough to accommodate all these so-called "in ear" earphones. You know, the ones you're supposed to ram right in. I ram them in so hard it hurts and my brain pops, yet they still fall out after three minutes when the cable snags on my shirt. I therefore suggest scientists develop wider ear holes for better audio clarity and comfort "on the go."

Feast your eyes on this, it's the ridiculously named EQW-500DBE-1AVER, from Casio, and it's being launched to coincide with the release of Iron Man on DVD on the 27th October. For that reason, I'm just going to call it the Iron Man watch. It's yours for £170.

It's got a whole heap of awesome features, much like Iron Man's suit. It has two separate stopwatches, a countdown timer, an LED light, automatic adjustment thanks to radio transmitters, an alarm, world time for 29 cities and a stainless steel casing and wristband. It's also water-resistant up to 10 bar.

On top of the lovely watch, Casio are also running a competition to win a trip to Hollywood. You can enter that here.

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The d3o technology has been around for over a year now but I've never seen it before and I'll bet a lot of you won't have either. So, for those who have read about this incredible protective material, just enjoy the footage of a man being hit over the head with a shovel again.

d3o is a specially engineered intelligent material that's soft and pliable like putty under normal conditions but when under physical stress it becomes solid and highly shock absorbent; so shock absorbent, in fact, that you can do things like this...

This fantastic shirt, from ThinkGeek blows the headphone jack t-shirt and the Wi-Fi t-shirt out of the water. It features seven drums, and an inbuilt speaker. Each drum has a different sound.

There's an awesome video just over the jump of it being played, but I could seriously see this being used on stage. There's adjustable volume too, with the top volume being "really loud", so you can disturb your neighbors all around the house, not just when you're at your real drum kit.

But wait! He's not that much of a nutcase, as these sunglasses were only handed out to Microsoft employees in the 1980s. Which definitely makes them worth the full $173,000, as they are one of the few remaining pairs.

Here's a fantastic highlight from the listing, explaining in a little more detail why they are such a valuable item for Microsoft collectors the world over...

"These are one size fits most and totally fashionable. A reliable source said these were only given to a handful of employees and every pair has been broken or lost over time... Except for these! These sunglasses were in use while Microsoft Office (word, excel, etc) was created and released! These bright sunglasses were the reason for many bright attitudes during the rise of Microsoft, and those bright attitudes might be the only reason for Microsoft's success. "

Our Duncan has a very similar pair, included as part of the press pack from SXSW 2007. He says you can have them for £50. They've only been chewed a bit.

(Via NewLaunches)

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A spurned wife is currently selling a photograph of a pair of knickers she found in her bed, along with a "small" condom wrapper her husband foolishly left behind as evidence of his adultery.

The angry lady's listing originally offered the actual knickers, but was taken down due to eBay laws regarding the selling of used underwear. An eBay spokesman said "We let her know about the policy and instead she's now selling a photograph of the offending knickers."

The offending and marginally offensive knickers are described in the listing as "size humongous," and you might also want to read her lengthy description of how the evening in question panned out. It's a great warning to always use cheap hotels for that kind of thing.

(Via Reuters)

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Are you an emotionless killing machine sent from the future to kill the mother of the leader of resistance against the machines? If so, this probably won't interest you. If you're not an emotionless killing machine but wish you were though, Vince Veneziani over at Gearfuse has got you covered - he's put together a tutorial on how to make yourself some sunglasses like those worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first Terminator film.

A fully cloaked shirt? A fully cloaked pair of trousers? A fully cloaked balaclava and glove set so even your head and hands remain invisible?

That's the dream hunting (I MEAN STALKING) scenario about to be made real, thanks to two teams at the University of California that are both getting close to making invisible fabrics. Team A has developed a material that uses a "fishnet of metal layers" to reverse light, while Team B's uses minuscule wires to carry light around whatever it is you're hiding.

Both materials operate in a similar way, by bending light from one side of an object to the other - an idea they got off Star Trek. What's so clever about taking 40 years to copy something off Star Trek, you lazy science nerds?

(Via Daily Mail)

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It's a Star Wars wedding. Not just a cake grandma made that, from the right angle, looks a bit like a 2D Death Star, but a proper, CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY DID THAT? Star Wars wedding. Everyone put in some effort.

Here's a small celebratory montage we've put together of the finest photos. The highlight is the ginger man who grew his beard out to be Chewbacca, plus the grey-haired man who used his natural assets to do a superb Ben Kenobi. The T.I.E. Fighters let the side down a bit, mind. What's with the socks?

The entire set is, incredibly, viewable by the general public over on Flickr. We wanted to poke fun, but... it's sensational.

Although when they get divorced in three years time, the print outs of these novelty photos will be the first thing to go on the big fire in the garden, along with all of HIS STUPID TOYS.

(Via GF)

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For the man with overactive sweat glands comes the Farago Aircool suit, designed to neutralise the nasty niffs associated with stale sweat before they develop and ensure that you're the only person in every meeting you attend.

Available in Japan, the suit has special "antimicrobial silver ions power" sewn into the lining, which helps to deodorise the material and the wearer.

It's difficult to work out much more about the suit and trousers, because the site is in Japanese (not surprisingly) but I'm sure we all know a few business folk who could use such apparel.

Also available are deodorant T-shirts, polo shirts, and socks. The suits cost around £200.

Product page (via Crunch Gear)

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The P8tch is the ultimate in geek utility-wear. Not only does it look completely safe and all psuedo-military like but it's useful too because it also happens to be a mobile phone scannable URL that'll take the reader to any web page you desire.

So, for example, it could be the RSS feed for your blog, your Flickr page, your favouite website, anything at all and you can configure it from one address to another whenever you like.

Rather like a Kinder Egg but a shoe, a robot and a surprise (no chocolate), are these most wonderfully ridiculous Transformer trainers. Quite when the design guy thought "You know what, I wish I could turn my shoes into robots," is utterly beyond me but my nostalgia hormones refuse to let me say that having a life form from Cybertron protecting your feet is a bad idea.

Has anyone got $5,000 I can borrow? I'll pay you back, I promise, but it might take while - not because it'll be hard getting the money but because I'll be playing with my genuine Back to the Future II 2015 McFly Nike boot that's just appeared on eBay!

I'm quivering. I'm actually quivering as I write this. I'm a-quiver. Seeing that Nike had released some completely useless replica of the McFly 2015 last week, known as the Nike Hyperdunk, the prop meister general, who designed the original for the Zemeckis trilogy, dug up the old prototype and put it up for auction.

As far as Star Wars merchandising goes, this evil is worthy of the darkest Sith Lord. For what true fan can resist a digitally scanned replica of original movie helmets? And even if they could turn down the $400 Storm Trooper helmet, could they say, "No" to the Darth Vader design? I think not!

For now, the Darth Vader helmet is still an unreleased concept design. But eFx Collectibles do plan on selling it at some point, so you might want to start saving up.

Product link (via Coolest Gadgets)

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Sorry to disappoint all you eager fans, but the Nike Hyperdunks are more "inspired" than "copied" from the pair Marty wore in Back to the Future II.

Sure they're the same colour scheme, but the high-ankle cuff is different, as are the soles. And although I never expected the Hyperdunks to be self-lacing, they could have made the laces look similar. Plus, the movie-version had a light-up sole and logo that Nike could have easily managed. It baffles me why they didn't - don't they want free advertising and a higher price tag?

Maybe they're waiting for 2015 to release duplicates. Ah well, us fans will take what we can get.

(via Coolest Gadgets)

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Just looking at this keychain makes me misty-eyed remembering days spent playing Super Mario and Tetris until it was time to watch Thundercats, Transformers and Voltron. Clearly made for us 80s kids, this nostalgic wonder features miniature versions of the console, a game cartridge and the NES controller.

Display your gaming history and inspire do-you-remembers with mates you used to trash in Street Fighter with this officially-licensed keyring for only $5.99.

Product Link (Via Coolest Gadgets)

Written by Emily Tan

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This is how to make your clothes glow. We're not going to get into the "why" you should make your clothes glow, just the how. The "why" is none of our business.

The "how" comes courtesy of tech DIY site Instructables, which features a clothes-pimping guide from the guy responsible for Daft Punk's stage costumes on its 2007 Alive tour.

The stuff you need is called "EL wire" and it is, apparently, rather easy to stich into clothing. Basically, and we don't want to undermine the guy's work or abilities or anything here, but basically you just bend some wire around clothes, sew it on and attach it to a battery (the battery bit is where it gets hard, mind).

Leather clothes work best, apparently, as they support the weight better. This year's Halloween party will be visible from space.

(Via Hack n Mod)

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