Google and Levi’s have created the "cleverest" jacket in the world

A year ago "the corporation is kind" announced emergence of special clothes with the integrated functions of an accessory for the smartphone. And this twist of Commuter Trucker goes on sale at the price of $350 for a copy. She differs in nothing from a usual jeans analog, except for one important detail.

On the first place a jacket, on the second – high technologies. If to remove an electronic insert from a sleeve, the clothes can be washed, altered, etc., a fabric basis in this case just the platform for stuffing fixture. She is presented by a set of the flexible tactile sensors interwoven into a cuff by the principle of "a jacquard pattern" plus the wireless communication module.

For data processing from an insert the smartphone is used, in a special application on him reaction of system to concrete gestures of the user is adjusted. In fact, the cuff of a jacket turns into the alternative touch screen, with function of the return tactile communication. It is possible to receive notices, to answer calls, to operate a media player and to carry out other habitual things, without taking out the smartphone from a pocket. But, unlike a voice communication, here everything becomes hands – not too conveniently to point a finger at a wrist when you go by bicycle.

Levi's Commuter Trucker jacket not goods, but part of an experiment, open beta test of the concept of use of such interfaces. Because there are weighty doubts that the idea will go to masses – in Google instead of the word "scepticism" prefer to tell "inquisitiveness". Also suggest buyers to share actively judgements on experience of application of the acquisition.

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