17 years after the Philips-Levi’s ICD jacket, Levi’s, together this time with Google, have released their jacket for urban cyclists. (more…)
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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…)
Did you know the first example of garments containing lights gives back over one hundred years to 1884? I didn’t. This and lots of other intriguing and well researched material is in a great article on the history of wearables by Laurenti de’ Medici (more…)
Google presented woven touch sensors at I/O 15 as part of project Jacquard – embedding electronics in textiles. (more…)