it was a year ago that Levi’s and Google announced a joint collaboration to create a jacket with conductive fabric capable of becoming, very basic, interface control of a smartphone.
Now Google I / O have announced that next year will hit stores the result of that collaboration. It is a fabric jacket jeans in which sleeve a touch pad connected to the smartphone using the Jacquard technology called was camouflaged.
Outside, Jacquard is equal to the rest of jackets jeans market, but in an area near the sleeve fabric is mixed with a patch of wires that transform this area into a sensitive control panel to pressure and hand position.
Every time you touch this area, and depending on how it is done, a function of the mobile device connected via Bluetooth is activated for example. controlling music, respond a call without taking the phone from his pocket and even move through Google Maps, although the latter should have the screen in sight.
the jacket can get dirty, wet and wash as any other, but must be removed before washing bracelet. While it is still a prototype, it is expected to hit stores in 2017, although there is still a definite price.
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