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How disposable is this product? Many products create a waste burden that is an after thought. Clothing has a good disposal path - reuse, recycle or just throw out. But what about wearable clothing? Since it is fashion it will have a short life cycle.
Wondering about privacy issues though, seeing as google collects "location information", isn't this just another step to surveillance, etc. I'm kind of more interested in clothing that doesn't collect my data.
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And lots of people decry that. It also is an upper class first world problem. I don't imagine too many poor people have smart phones, and I don't imagine all clothing will have tech interwoven. That may become common among the wealthier classes in developed countries, it is unlikely to be the norm for all people on the planet. Your comment fails as a rebuttal.
Many poor people have smartphones. They're a big force in getting more people access to the internet and other technology, which is probably overall positive even though it has some significant negative repercussions. https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/01/for-more-poor-americans-smar... http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/
Poor Americans are not the poorest people on the planet. And talking like they are casually dismisses the existence of billions of people.
I am pretty darn poor for an American. I was homeless until recently. I am well aware that even homeless Americans frequently have cell phones. My latest Tracphone is a smart phone because the Walmart didn't have a dumb phone when I went to get a new phone.
Still, the fact that some Americans are poor and also have a cheap smart phone does not negate the existence of poor Americans who don't have a smart phone, who may not have a phone at all.
The comment I replied to suggested that ALL clothing will someday have this tech. I think that is unlikely. Perhaps "all" (aka most) clothing of fairly well off Americans, but certainly not all clothes on the entire planet.
That may be "pedantic," but the essence of classism, racism, etc is that people glibly say "all people" when they really mean some subset of people. That subset winds up being the only subset that counts. The needs and realities of other people outside that subset are utterly ignored and if you try to bring them into the conversation, you get shouted down, downvoted, etc.
Isn't cycling/driving with earphone plugged dangerous? I've tried it, and I couldn't hear the ambience sounds surrounding me.
Ironically, this mostly depends on you. If you lose the sense of vehicles and people around you, your music/navigation is up too high. Even with the best isolating headphones (around 25db; most non-IEM models offer much less isolation), you can still hear ambiant noises (unless your hearing is damaged to the point where isolating headphones do make you deaf). And with the standard set of Apple style headphones, they…
And running earbuds that loud for an extended period of time is a good way to lose your hearing.
There's really no need for this to control music. AirPods now have touch and voice controls built in. Smart earbuds are a much better solution for audio control than smart clothing that controls dumb earbuds.
And if you're getting turn-by-turn directions you'll probably have your AirPods in as well, and you can just ask Siri for updates. That's so much more flexible -- you can ask for so much more than you could via preprogrammed swipes.
That pretty much just leaves the use case of haptic notifications for people who don't want to wear a watch / wristband. I think if you care about this you'll at least put on a fitbit during your commute. And that works with all clothing.
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Totally not creepy and totally not classist. /s
>classist what does this even means in this context?
Do you really think it is literally true that the goal is every single piece of clothing on the entire planet will connect to the internet? Or just the clothes of the relatively well off?
Because when you talk like it will be completely universal when that seems rather far fetched, you implicitly deny the existence of those people for whom this is highly unlikely to be true.
How disposable is this product? Many products create a waste burden that is an after thought. Clothing has a good disposal path - reuse, recycle or just throw out. But what about wearable clothing? Since it is fashion it will have a short life cycle.
"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 tail…