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Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by zeveb »

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered

> Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it.

I can't tell — is this some sort of late or early April Fool's joke? Or have I finally just become such an old fogey that I'm yelling at those goshdurn kids to quit sequencing their nanites on my lawn?

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by pmulv »

zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

Even after going to Jacquard's website, I'm having a real hard time understanding what this is or what this does.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by djstein »

pmulv wrote: post #3
zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

Even after going to Jacquard's website, I'm having a real hard time understanding what this is or what this does.

came here to say this. might have to pop into the store to check it out..

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by tyingq »

zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

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?

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by epmaybe »

tyingq wrote: post #5
zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

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.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by seltzered_ »

tyingq wrote: post #5
zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

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?

Those scenarios are exactly where I still like using a pebble watch. At least for the music control scenarios I usually don't need to look at the screen.

The other scenarios still assume that I'm wearing earbuds - which arguably brings it's own risks (i.e. when riding a bicycle)

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

tyingq wrote: post #5
zeveb wrote: post #2

> Jacquard enabled/You empowered > Jacquard by Google transforms clothing. It’s an entirely new take on wearables that lets you do more than ever with the things that you love and wear every day. With Jacquard technology woven into the very fabric of your clothes, you can connect to your digital life instantly and effortlessly. With a literal brush of your cuff, you can navigate your life while living it. I can't tel…

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 as the "tag snap" is detachable (so you can wash the jacket) it seems you can use it on its own, or with any other piece of clothing. I have a hard time understanding what is the advantage of this over any smartwatch.
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