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The innovators over at Thinkgeek.com have created a very neat Personal Soundtrack Shirt with real speakers and a personal sondtrack player.

One very cool part of the shirt is the screen printed design. This is actually an innovation in itself because most wearables on the market right now didn’t start as cool designs. Most people put a lackluster design behind a cool tech idea and expect it to work. Webelow Wear prefers to start projects with a solid design and then make the cool technology blend with the aesthetic.

If you follow their site, you know that this shirt started as a April Fool’s joke product that they posted on their site about a year or so ago. At the time, it seemed ridiculous and impossible but everyone thought it was cool so they actually made it real.

ThinkGeek Personal Soundtrack Shirt

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The shirt plays tunes from an audio player that takes an SD card.  Pressing buttons a the included keypad triggers the device to play mp3 files from the sd card.  The file names link them to a corresponding preset button.  For  instance, 2.mp3 is triggered by button 2.

ThinkGeek Personal Soundtrack remote

It would be nice to grab one of these and check out the inner workings. Sparkfun now sells quite a few MP3 based products that can fuel your DIY cravings if you want to make something like this on your own.

Softcircuit buttons anyone?

ThinkGeek was the company that made us start thinking about wearables with their classic WiFi Detector shirt.

Kudos to ThinkGeek for continuing to push the limits and making VA look cool.