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Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by addedlovely »

"The Jacket is designed to withstand up to 10 washes with the Jacquard snap tag removed but your experience may vary by usage and wash conditions"

"Note: You can wear the Jacket in the rain, but if the Jacket becomes too wet it may not reliably detect gestures. Allow the Jacket to dry and resume using. The snap tag is resistant to rain and splashing, but it is not fully waterproof"

Sure it's really "Specifically tailored with the urban cyclist in mind"...that's one wet, smelly, denim jacket after a few rides in the UK.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

#52

Post by swang »

Sodman wrote: post #50

A lot of hate going on in the comments here, but as somebody who doesn't really like wearing watches - I'd take the idea of "Subtly vibrate on text/notification received" being built into my jacket over it being built into a smartwatch. Would love to know how much this costs though.

The Verge says $350

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

#53

Post by ballenf »

misterbowfinger wrote: post #42
SurrealSoul wrote: post #17

I 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

One way to look at wearable tech is as an extension of the surface of your smartphone. If you can interact with your phone throughout your clothing, there could be a lot of room for (warning, buzzword!) innovation there.

Extension of the touch sensing aspect of the phone screen, not the display aspect. Extending one without the other leads to over-engineered pause buttons, is what the parent comment was saying I think. When the number of unlabeled buttons get much higher than 1, people start to get confused.

I agree in part, just think that the jacket needs to be paired with a HUD or maybe have control/button labels that can shine through the fabric in order to open up that innovation.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by fizx »

SurrealSoul wrote: post #17

I 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

Have you seen how many silly versions of bicycles and airplanes we got in the early 1900s? Suicide doors on cars and funny little wings on the back?

Things take a while to converge.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

#56

Post by TFortunato »

neom wrote: post #25

The video gives a lot more detail than the website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ADVeNpypk No clue how to pronouce Jacquard btw. :(

On that, if you aren't familiar, the name refers to the Jacquard Loom, one of the first "programmable" looms, perhaps most famous for giving us punched cards! Cute name for a project tying computing and fabric goods!

EDIT: Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Importance_in_co...

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by nijynot »

anindha wrote: post #47
nijynot wrote: post #45

Why get this denim jacket when you can get an iPhone and an Apple Watch? Jacquard only puts limits on you as it's stuck on that specific denim jacket. Apple Watch on the other hand works with any jacket. You don't even need a jacket with Apple watch, you can wear whatever you want, whenever you want, and it would still work compared to Jacquard which wouldn't.

The idea is that every piece of clothing one day will incorporate this.

But why not buy a single smart watch and keep your clothes normal? I mean, it's seems redundant to make every single piece have similar tech functionality when you can have one watch that works with all clothes. If you choose to have different tech in different clothes, I don't see why you don't want to combine everything into a watch. Though there are edge cases where you can want to split it up. But then your customer base gets much smaller.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by melling »

digi_owl wrote: post #18
SurrealSoul wrote: post #17

I 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.

“most of what people do...”

This is almost surely wrong but you made the intentionally vague comment so it’s not so easy to point out where you’re wrong. You might claim, for example, that tasks like email or internet browsing existed but they did not work as well.

Also, we certainly haven’t run out of things to do with mobile. We’re talking watches, phones, and tablets, etc right?

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by Mz »

anindha wrote: post #47
nijynot wrote: post #45

Why get this denim jacket when you can get an iPhone and an Apple Watch? Jacquard only puts limits on you as it's stuck on that specific denim jacket. Apple Watch on the other hand works with any jacket. You don't even need a jacket with Apple watch, you can wear whatever you want, whenever you want, and it would still work compared to Jacquard which wouldn't.

The idea is that every piece of clothing one day will incorporate this.

Totally not creepy and totally not classist.

/s

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