Is it a gadget or is it a t-shirt? Proving that what you wear can be multi-functional, or perhaps that our compulsive obsession of finding Wi-Fi signal has literally taken over, this handy shirt helps you to keep track of the strength of your nearest wireless hotspots.

If your t-shirt bars are all bright and illuminated then your connectivity is at an all time high, but if you’re stuck in a field with some sheep in a remote corner of Wales, or currently in my house by the sea which is struggling to access the outside world, then it’s unlikely that any bars will be glowing and you’ll have amuse yourself with scrabble or a tricky jigsaw puzzle instead. It’s nice to be kept informed though.

Maybe it’s more useful as a portable chest-torch than an accurate technological gadget but it does give us a glimpse into the not so distant future of intelligent fabric. You will need to accessorise this particular piece with a battery pack, and maybe it would be best to avoid going swimming in it, just to be on the safe side. But as far as fashion goes to being a public service, you’d be well on your way wearing this t-shirt…yeah, the only down side I can see is that you’d have to carry a mirror about to monitor your glowing bars, but the other signal seekers on the street won’t be able to take their eyes off you!

NuUniform can produce it for you with your own logo/design with that blinking wifi signals. MOQ from 500 pieces per design. If you just want a flashing logo and needs no wifi receiver or audio-sensor (ie. flashing with any sound signal detected), the MOQ can be scaling down to 50 pieces per design.

You can do it on t-shirts, caps and even floor mat.

The technology:

An illuminated display panel for a garment including an electroluminescent circuit (aka EL Panel) having an electrical microchip, a plurality of resistors, a plurality of semiconductor rectifiers, and an electroluminescent display element, all being connected to the electrical microchip; and a battery compartment with miniature flat batteries contained therein.

The illuminated display panel for a garment further includes a display label having indicia thereon and being attached to the electroluminescent display element by gluing, stitching, sewing, stapling, epoxy, cementing or combinations thereof.

The electroluminescent display element is attached to the garment by gluing, stitching, sewing, stapling, epoxy cementing or combinations thereof. The electroluminescent display element is electrically connected to the electroluminescent circuit by one or more soldered connection points; and a pair of connection wires electrically connects the one or more soldered connection points to the electroluminescent circuit.

Washing:

1. Dry clean or hand wash.
2. Remove power unit before washing.
3. Do not immerse any part of the flash EL panel into water.
4. The EL panel can be made detachable on shirt by velcro for easy washing!

EL Panel Operations:

1. Runs on standard 4*AAA(3*AAA or 2*AA) batteries (the EL panel itself is only around 1mm thick).
2. Uses slide on/off switch.
3. Optional selector for flashign pattern.
4. Do not bend or apply pressure to the flash panel.