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Step outdoors with confidence and peace of mind thanks to this innovative everyday belt

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Despite all the conveniences and marvels of modern technology today, our safety and security are still concerns. The moment we step out the door, we never know what emergency we will be facing, leaving us wondering if we’re properly prepared for any task, challenge, or even danger. The news is always full of reports of crimes that leave people, especially women, wounded and traumatized. We can bring all the tools and safety precautions we need in a large bag, but that not only cramps our style but also impedes our mobility, especially when we’re going out for some exercise. Enter the FitBeltSafeguard (StayFit-StaySafe), a simple yet ingenious everyday belt that you can wrap around your waist any time, giving you access to 17 essential features. Each pocket stores an essential tool you’ll need to be more productive including in an emergency situations where you have to defend yourself or call for help.

Designer: Rojoeyl Aquino (Chiseled Design)

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Nothing is more stressful than leaving home only to realize that you forgot small but important things like a reusable bag for groceries, tissue paper, or worse, even your phone. That sense of dread is amplified when you find yourself in a dangerous situation without a way to protect yourself or even call for help. Who says only superheroes can have a utility belt full of tools that can save the day or even lives? With the FitBeltSafeguard everyday belt, you no longer need to leave home unprepared to face any eventuality, whether you’re going out for a run, doing some groceries, or simply enjoying the fresh air.

Built-in anti-skid technology to keep the belt on your waist at all times. Even an extreme training.

This incredibly slim belt features as many as 17 functions with all the hidden pockets, securely behind a flap. All you need to do is pinch the lower reflective lining of the belt and lift it up to gain access to the pocket underneath. No one knows where the pockets are or what they hold except you, thanks to vibrant icons that give you a clue which one is which. To anyone else, it simply looks like you’re wearing a cute but unassuming lumbar support belt like the ones athletes wear while training.

The pockets are also strategically placed where you need them the most. The front pocket, for example, holds your smartphone for quick and easy access at any time. The pepper spray pocket, which is compatible with many types of small pepper spray cans, is on the right where your hand naturally rests, allowing you to instantly pull it out at a moment’s notice. The panic alarm with built-in stainless steel magnetic chain emergency trigger technology allowing for easy activation even when your movement is being limited by an assailant. The loud sound, SOS, and LED the alarm produces ensures that you can be seen and heard.

Waterproof

In addition to these tools for fighting off dangerous actors, the belt is home to everyday essentials that make life so much more convenient, especially for those with active lifestyles. There’s a pocket for hand pads that lets you do pull-ups and push-ups safely without harming your hands, as well as an inflatable cushion for floor exercises or just sitting almost anywhere. You have access to a reusable shopping bag for those unexpected and unplanned market discoveries, while a roll of dog waste bags is also there for picking up after your furry friend. One of the most interesting items in this belt is the compressed tissue paper. Made of biodegradable eco-friendly material, these premium quality tear-resistant rolls of tissue magically expand with a few drops of water and can also be use without any water.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and the FitBeltSafeguard has room for plenty more, including keys and credit cards. With all those things going inside it, it’s mind-blowing how this everyday belt remains compact and easy to use. Made of premium Lycra, the stretchable and durable material hugs your waist comfortably, and with the integrated anti-skid, you don’t have to worry about it bouncing and shifting, while industrial-grade Velcro makes sure it stays securely fastened around your body. Additionally, all the everyday essentials were specifically designed to fit the pouches perfectly and eliminate the bulkiness. Never again do you need to feel unprepared and vulnerable whenever you step outdoors with the FitBeltSafeguard. This is the one in a life time innovation that we all have been waiting for. A peace of mind for all!

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This Ultimate Jogger’s Utility Belt gives you a waist-mounted 420-lumen LED Flashlight and EDC storage

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Cars and bikes have headlights, so why is it that joggers have to rely on phone flashlights or those awkward headlamps that workers in mines use? Designed by avid running enthusiast and Ironman participant Bryan Robbins, the Lumabelt is one part utility belt one part high-vis flashlight. Turning the humble runner’s fanny pack into something much more sleek and functional, Lumabelt is a slim wearable that stores your phone, keys, and wallet while you’re running… but it also comes with a built-in LED flashlight strong enough to illuminate the path ahead of you while you run, helping you see as well as be seen by others. Plus its $29 price tag makes it a no-brainer for pretty much anyone who finds themselves navigating the outdoors in the dark, whether you’re taking your dog for a walk, hiking a trail, or even if your job is in the security domain.

Designer: Bryan Robbins

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A seasoned athlete, Robbins took to the roads to exercise after realizing his sedentary lifestyle was making him gain a lot of weight. Motivation pushed him to get off his office chair and go get some physical exercise – but the late nights proved to be an obstacle to his routine. Regular head-mounted lamps weren’t elegant, and the waist-mounted ones he had were either way too bulky, or didn’t have lights that were powerful enough. The reason, Robbins figured, was that these products were created by companies built on profit motives, not by actual runners or by brands that listened intently to runners. The first prototype of the Lumabelt was soon born, given his need to have a ‘sleek’ utility belt that also housed a powerful seamlessly integrated light.

Barely 3 inches high, the Lumabelt is a pretty sleek runner’s belt that has enough space for your essentials, but also packs an incredibly powerful flashlight that does a much better job of helping you navigate the dark. The spacious pocket holds your keys, phone, AirPods case, and even a compact power bank if you want to charge your phone or your Lumabelt while running. A 420-lumen LED strip practically works as your own personal headlight, letting you see the road ahead of you very clearly. For comparison, smartphones have flashlights that max at around 60 lumens. The Lumabelt offers two brightness modes to choose from – a Mid-Bright that works well in dawn/dusk settings, and a Full-Bright that’s perfect for the dark.

The beauty of the Lumabelt’s design comes from Robbins’ own experiences, as he faced quite a few struggles with utility belts that were too bulky or bounced around while he ran. To counter this, the Lumabelt has a sleek, streamlined, body-hugging design that doesn’t flip-flop as you sprint. The LED strip is mounted at a lower-facing angle so the light shines directly on the ground ahead of you, and a built-in battery gives you roughly 3 hours of continuous usage on Full-Bright mode, which can either be significantly extended by using a power-bank, or by switching to the Mid-Bright setting.

The belt comes with a one-size-fits-all design, working on waist sizes between 28 and 60. The pockets are expandable too, letting you tuck more than just 1-2 items in if you want to carry other EDC too. Although designed for night runners, the belt proves to be pretty useful across a variety of needs and occupations. It works phenomenally well for campers and hikers, travelers, cave exploration, dog-walking, or even security. The Lumabelt starts at a discounted $29, with global shipping this September.

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HMD complements its smartphone with phone-shaped sunglasses, backpack and belt for phone

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Brands have very peculiar ways of promoting their products, for instance, years back Burger King ran a promotion asking people to unfriend 10 Facebook friends for a free Woopper. Now, HMD is taking a different but weird route with the head-turning accessories to celebrate the sales kick-off of its first smartphone, the HMD Pulse Pro.

Introducing the HMD’s Phonecore range, which is a destined conversation starter no matter the gathering you are heading into. This range of smartphone-inspired accessories includes a pair of Pulse Pro-inspired sunglasses that look like an impressive pair of smart glasses, a smartphone backpack, and a belt that’s made to hold your phone like a policeman’s walkie-talkie in the belt.

Designer: HMD

The striking smart glasses and other accessories in glacier green color are made by HMD in partnership with fashion designer Sinead Gorey. Made during the London Fashion Week, the eyewear is a little like a functional pair of smart glasses we have seen over the years; it’s a statement-making device with elongated rectangular black lenses and an oversized frame that mimics the screen of the new phone.

Besides the glasses, the Phonecore range in itself is intended to accentuate the HMD Pulse Pro unlike anything gimmicky seen before. The range of accessories has the industry talking about its oversized design and bold outlook, which ‘won’t make you smart but would definitely make the HMD smartphone, smarter.’

Along with the oversized glasses, as mentioned above, the Phonecore range includes a mobile backpack. This is a 3D-printed backpack which is big enough to only carry a smartphone. It is complemented by a toolkit-style belt with a pouch, designed again to carry nothing but your phone. Interestingly, none of these accessories are usable in real-life scenarios, it’s only to satiate your style quotient.

HMD Pulse Pro is a discussion-worthy debut smartphone under their own brand. It comes with interesting new features, which are unique to the sub $200 range, like affordable spare parts for at-home reparability, over three years of updates, and fast storage. But the aspect that kills it really is its 50-megapixel front camera with gesture-activated selfie features. The phone bleeds tech and its supporting accessories catapult that richness to new style heights. The complementing Phonecore collection will be available in limited quantities for style seekers.

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Smart belt with haptic feedback can replace white canes for visually impaired

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For those that do not have any visual impairments or don’t know have anyone close to them that has this condition, the simple act of walking down a street is something that we probably take for granted. Being aware that not everyone will have that privilege is something that we should occasionally remind ourselves. There are brands and product designers that are constantly working to develop gadgets and tools that can help those that need assistance living their every day lives.

Designer: AI Guided

GUIDi is a concept for a device that can replace the white cane that a lot of visually impaired individuals use to navigate their way through busy streets. It is a device that the user wears on their waist and includes camera and microprocessor modules, and haptic feedback units that will assist them as they walk. There are two 8-megapixel cameras that are forward-facing and will scan the environment as they are walking. The images captured will be analyzed by AI-based software which will be able to identify things like trees, trash cans, sign posts, and other items that the user may face on the street or sidewalk.

The haptic feedback units will vibrate to alert the user that there may be some obstruction in their direction. It will even be able to detect things like branches, wires, and other overhanging items that a regular cane may miss since it’s basically on the ground. The device can also be connected to an app on their smartphone through Bluetooth connectivity where they can choose a specific location and they will be guided by GUIDi accordingly. The battery life is around 8-10 hours on a single charge.

Design wise, it’s pretty much a no-frills device that you can wear on your waist and should not be that obstructive or uncomfortable. The two haptic feedback units on each side should be enough to give the user signals on possible obstacles but also not give sudden vibrations that might surprise the user. The GUIDi is not yet in production but those who are interested can try joining the free trial that the company is offering.

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Meet The Strongest Belt Ever Made – The Indestructible Belt By Vollebak

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Vollebak is known for its ground-breaking and absolutely mindblowing designs such as the Indestructible Puffer which is built from the same material as body armor or the Deep Sleep Cocoon that can lull you to sleep on Mars and Earth! In lieu of their ingenious and highly successful designs, Vollebak has also launched the Indestructible Belt. Right off the bat, they’re claiming that the Indestructible Belt is the strongest belt ever made! Color us intrigued! It is designed to be not only a true marvel in engineering but also a major fashion statement that will definitely grab eyeballs.

Designer: Vollebak

The Indestructible Belt is built with the ultimate strong core which is made from Dyneema – the single strongest fiber known to man today. Vollebak uses Dyneema in its Indestructible range. Dyneema is supposed to be 15x stronger than steel, which basically signifies that the belt strap is only breakable if you hang more than 4 tonnes of it, which is essentially the same weight as a Hummer or 10 grizzly bears. It is a game-changer for people who need their belts to be extremely durable and strong, but also dashingly handsome.

Vollebak teamed up the powerful Dyneema strap with a COBRA® buckle which is supposed to be the strongest and safest buckle on the planet. The buckle is engineered with a patented locking mechanism, ensuring that the buckle never releases under pressure, and can tolerate 1.8 tonnes of force before it breaks apart. Every Indestructible Belt is built using 12 rows of ultra-strong bonded thread, and an engraved metal tip by Riri which features a custom anodized metal case equipped with a 3D printed latch – making it a class apart from your ordinary everyday belt, to be honest, the two cannot even be compared. The Indestructible Belt is designed to withstand the harshest of conditions!

The Indestructible Belt is crafted in France, and it completely pushes the boundaries of fashion and functionality, to create an exceedingly innovative product that we have truly never seen before. It is priced at $395 and is the ultimate accessory you have been looking for. It packs a punch with both style and safety.

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Creative hipster belt design uses a tiny industrial vice grip for a buckle

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I can’t believe nobody made the connection between the terms ‘tightening and loosening one’s belt’, and the fact that a vice grip literally does the exact same thing.

A hundred years after the modern belt and buckle were invented, we’re still struggling with the fact that a lot of times the belt-holes don’t match up to where you need them to be and you’re often stuck with a belt that’s just a tiny bit too tight or a wee bit too loose. The MUDANKAI Adjustable Belt changes that.

Designer: COF

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Instead of using a traditional buckle-and-hole system, the MUDANKAI Adjustable Belt just puts a tiny vice-grip around your waist that lets you twist to fasten your belt. Almost like a tofu press that basically locks your slab of tofu between two walls, the buckle on the MUDANKAI locks onto the remnant end of your belt, holding it in place just the way a regular buckle would by threading a metal stick through a belt-hole.

Except, the MUDANKAI doesn’t have any metal sticks or holes… its stepless design means you can tighten it wherever or whenever you want, giving you a belt that’s exactly as tight as you need it. A tiny stylized knob on the front of the buckle lets you twist to tighten or loosen your belt, making it even easier to adjust your belt in public without fiddling around conspicuously.

Japanese Patterns

The MUDANKAI belt isn’t just about its buckle. The entire belt comes with a patented design that’s easy to wear, easy to adjust, and also designed to be reversible! Given that the buckle’s mechanism basically works by tightening and loosening, you can easily remove it and flip the belt over to reverse its design.

The MUDANKAI belt is available across a whole variety of colors and textures, from plain leather to textured crocodile skin. As for the buckle, it comes in either brass or aluminum, and sports perhaps the most eye-catchingly quirky design I’ve seen. It’s a combination of slightly industrial, mildly hipster, and just all-out creative!

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This futuristic metal buckle tightens your pants… without a belt!

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First came suspenders, then the belt, then elastic, now we enter the age of the Bucqle. The Bucqle is a product from an alternate universe where pants don’t have belt-loops. It’s quite literally a metal buckle that clips around the waist-rim of your pants and tightens it by as much as 2 inches. The pros? You can use it on all sorts of pants and skirts, even ones without belt-loops… especially ones without belt loops. The Bucqle is also discrete, doesn’t involve wrapping your waist with a strip of leather or canvas, and by virtue of its metal construction, lasts a lifetime. The only con? That nobody ever thought of something this ingenious before.

If you’ve got a pair of pants on right now, perform this trick. Take your index and middle finger and make the victory sign (a ‘V’ shape). Now wedge your pant’s waist rim between both fingers so that you’ve got one finger in and another finger out. Now just turn your hand so that the fingers twist your pant’s waistline, tightening it. That’s essentially what the Bucqle does. It doesn’t hold your pants up, like a pair of suspenders, or form a noose around your hips like a belt… it just uses a clipping and twisting mechanism to tighten your pants around the waist.

A great way to radically redesign a product is to remove its most essential part and rework your design to still be functional. A great example is how the touchscreen smartphone ditched the tactile keyboard, or how the digital clock ditched the need for rotating hands, and it’s similarly how the Bucqle ditched the leather belt and became a better product without it. The Bucqle’s radical redesign isn’t just different, it’s exceptionally better. The Bucqle slips right into your pant and clamps shut, showing up as just a minimal-looking silver bar right above your pants. It works equally well with formal pants as it does with shorts, skirts, and even pajamas if you’re determined. The Bucqle’s adjustable design functions the way a belt does, but its flexibility lets you exactly control the tightness of your pants, unlike a belt, which usually has a pre-determined set of belt-holes. Its tiny size means it occupies a fraction of the space of a belt when you’re packing it into a suitcase, and its metal construction makes it out-last any given belt. Going the extra distance to ensure you feel comfortable wearing the Bucqle, it even comes with a rubberized back, to ensure the device holds its place and doesn’t slide around.

I’ll be honest, after seeing the Bucqle, it’s going to be hard going back to my belt. The Bucqle is, in every way, a better designed product. It’s smaller, lighter, more durable, works universally, is gender-neutral, and here’s the best part… it can be fastened and opened with a single hand!

Designers: Daan van der Lecq & Jasper Stas

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Bucqle – Modern Replacement of your Belt

Belts can be bulky, uncomfortable, inevitably present and just a hassle. The Bucqle provides a universal perfect fit for all your pants and skirts. With its infinite adjustment system, Bucqle tightens your waistband by the millimeter, limited by 50mm. Don’t worry about fluctuating weight!

The Bucqle is made of premium watch Steelinox and is half the size of a credit card. The plain design offers endless possibilities for customization.

Slim design, perfect curve and infinitely adjustable.

Easily applicable, adjustable and removable.

A belt takes steps of 3-4 centimeters, while a Bucqle tightens over 2 confection sizes, with a maximum of 5 centimeters.

Features

Available in Arctic Silver, Gun Metal & Oyster Gold

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