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Artificial arms attached to the back of the coat use motors and computer programming to let vulnerable, fragile, lonely Japanese boys feel that maybe, one day, these loving arms won't have to be forced to embrace them by a piece of machinery.

The leather arms can actually be removed to unveil Bane's combat vest. The 2-in-1 jacket will cost you $583. Not nearly as cost efficient as making it yourself, but for pure realism and quality, there's no beating this.

LumiNet takes the conventions of a central processing unit, such as an Arduino, handling most of the workload and spreads the responsibility across a series of parallel ‘LumiNet modules’ which only depend on the four modules directly connected to it. This way, if one module goes bad, the rest of the wearable network will stay up and running. It’s programming ...

Unless you have a huge family, crafting a jacket out of empty Capri Sun containers is going to require two sacrifices. Lots of drinking and lots of peeing. In fact, you’ll probably wind up doing both at once if you really want to finish this jacket in record time. Made using almost solely empty Capri Suns (with the exception of ...

Here’s a back-to-school jacket worth getting excited about. The NavJacket from O’Neill is due out this winter and will feature more technology than you can shake a stick at. Designed for people who like to snowboard, ski or just hit the trails, the NavJacket features Gore-Tex material and integrated GPS that allows you to navigate a hillside. The left arm ...

Fancy the electronic duo� Justice? Why not wear tight black pants along with a leather jacket that just screams, “I swallow!” Gaspard Aug� and Xavier de Rosnay of Justice have teamed up with French label Surface to Air of Paris to create their own limited edition clothing line, complete with a leather wallet. The line is supposed to reflect their ...

I don’t know about you but I’m always doing one of three things: smuggling drugs in from Canada, wearing a shirt, or sleeping. It’s a tough life, I know. Luckily, there’s the Xip3, a shirt that turns into a backpack and a pillow when you need it. Equipped with Polartec 200 lining, it’s a pretty ideal shirt for rough conditions ...

Shown as part of the Tissue Culture and Art Project at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, this new Victimless Leather shows that animals don’t need to be harvested for textiles, but they are still equally tasty if I might say so myself. Mmm, cheeseburgers. The project’s goal is to attempt “artistically exploring and provoking notions relating to ...