Silver Lining
This cashmere rib vest, shown as part of a travel collection by Angel Chang at the Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York this month, keeps its wearer extra toasty with a heat-conducting silver lining. The soft, washable fabric was developed by Noble Biomaterials for the army.
Bronze Beauty
One of the sleekest of the new minilaptops based on the Intel Atom chip, the ASUS Eee PC S101 weighs only 2 pounds and is less than 1 inch thick. It comes in bronze or graphite, and the $699 price includes Windows XP and a 16-gigabyte solid state drive (flash memory) instead of a hard drive.
Patterned Players
Zune players can be customized with etched text and 46 designs from a variety of artists, including an astrology-themed Zodiac series by Catalina Estrada and Iosefatu Sua. Prices start at $129.