This T-Shirt Really Lights Up!

My favorite ridiculous clothing genre—the electroluminescent garment—has gone consumer. The FlashWear T-Equalizer not only has the best excellent-dumb name ever, it's also a regular T-shirt with a graphic equalizer that lights up on the front. Like the graphic equalizers on, say, Windows Media Player or on your car head unit, this shirt's chest-pattern has audio sensors that let it actually react with rising and falling towers of light to the sounds outside. So if you're surrounded by the boon-tis of a dance beat or just some rockin' tunes, the shirt will light up in mesmerizing cheap ‘70s-stereo style!

Seriously, though, this tee will get you noticed. I practically stalked the guy who runs FlashWear LTD, the company behind the T-Equalizer, at a couple of trade shows last year simply because the clothing he was wearing—a jacket with a an electroluminescent back—was so arresting. And last month at CES, one of his colleagues was wearing a skirt with a 1-D, Rubik's-Cube-like colored light design on the front. I was literally chasing her skirt, it was so alluring. I'm sure she was getting that a lot.

Until now, the company has only made electroluminescent clothes as promotional items for paying clients. But today you can get the T-Equalizer for around $35 on the U.S. version of Firebox.com or at Software Hut, which says the T-shirt was on the Ellen Degeneres Show (how could I have missed it?). 

Would you wear the T-Equalizer?