Soy in a jacket.
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Jacquard by Google transforms clothing
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#12http://www.levi.com/US/en_US/category/men/collections/levi-c... Why is this only in skinny hipster sizes like Slim Fit Levi's 511s. Damn you malnourished SF hipsters (I guess you cant afford to eat with Bay Area prices, also you keep buying new phones instead of food).
You must be a bodybuilder.
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#13If they can't even make the product good enough for people to want to buy it without making the sensors stand out as a conversation piece, then what's the point?
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#14And Project Soli.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
This had better detail: https://www.blog.google/topics/atap/more-just-jacket-levis-c... Basically, you can make various gestures on the jacket cuff to control things like playing/pausing music, having an incoming sms read aloud to you, etc. Maybe useful if you're riding a bike, or other situations where interaction with a screen isn't practical?
But why the focus on the jacquard threads? If it is just the cuff, why can't we just wear a bracelet or something similar? When I first say them introduce this, I thought there would be more tech built into the jacket itself, but it looks as if the cuff is the only important part.
The underlying tech could probably work on every part of the clothing. They probably found out that some gestures were awkward or unnatural in public, so the first iteration is pretty conservative. Touching your cuffs is pretty unsuspicious.
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#16Watching the YT video, is this just a denim jacket with a touch sensor on the sleeve cuff?
That was my reaction as well. It is just bluetooth headphones, expect you need to use your own ear buds (probably come with a pair thou). And instead of buttons it has swipe gestures.
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#17I feel like we are pushing this wearable tech thing too hard. Pushing all the cool ways we can put stuff into things (ordering pizza from your shoes, snapchatting from your glasses) but they ALWAYS boil down to "You can touch XYZ instead of your phone to pause your music".
When we will get some decent applications, instead of enhancing the form
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#18I feel like we are pushing this wearable tech thing too hard. Pushing all the cool ways we can put stuff into things (ordering pizza from your shoes, snapchatting from your glasses) but they ALWAYS boil down to "You can touch XYZ instead of your phone to pause your music". When we will get some decent applications, instead of enhancing the form
I think the basic problem there is that we have run out of things do to via mobile in general, at least outside of the corporate world.
Frankly most of what people do on "smartphones" today that is not work related could be done on featurephones a decade or more ago.
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#19And Project Soli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0
I don't think this was even mentioned at Google IO this year. Anyone know what's going on with Soli?
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#20'Rainbows End' slowly coming to life!