Samonsite have designed a backpack that uses the Google Jacquard capacitive sensing textile to capture gestures to control your phone without getting it out of your pocket. (more…)
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Google has just released a teaser video about three future art installation that will utilise their Jacquard technology. (more…)
17 years after the Philips-Levi’s ICD jacket, Levi’s, together this time with Google, have released their jacket for urban cyclists. (more…)
16 years after the Philips/Levi’s jacket, Levi’s have returned to electronic garments. Together with Google they have announced, at the recent Google I/O, a smart jacket for urban cyclists. The jacket uses the touch pad developed by Google’s project jacquard to enable gesture control of a bluetooth linked smart phone. In the following video an urban cyclist heading through San Francisco puts the jacket through its paces. (more…)
Google presented woven touch sensors at I/O 15 as part of project Jacquard – embedding electronics in textiles. (more…)