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Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by santaclaus »

45h34jh53k4j wrote: post #9

http://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).

> Damn you malnourished SF hipsters

San Francisco is actually pretty lite on the hipsters compared to, say, Bushwick or Portland.

> Why is this only in skinny

Skinny seems to be the default jean size, these days. Walk into a Uniqlo or something and the main thing you see is skinny.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by IanDrake »

When you can't tell the difference between a joke and reality it can't be good.

In this case, I guess this is a real thing, but reading the website it seems like it could just as easily be a joke.

Kinda like the Antifa spoof pages on Facebook, which were hilarious if you knew what they were spoofs.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by misterbowfinger »

ballenf wrote: post #53
misterbowfinger wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

I'm not sure we need screens on our jackets, we just need two-way communication. Right now, Jacquard only allows one-way communication (human -> device), but perhaps there could be a touch-sensitive way for the device to communicate as well.

This would be huge for things like heart monitors and emergency phone calls. A lot of room for "cool social apps for teens", and almost definitely for gaming/VR.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by didip »

If there is 1 high tech feature that I want from a clothing (I am willing to ignore everything else) is the ability to charge all of our gadgets wirelessly.

I don’t care about controlling music player from my shirt, my phone already dies that.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by ino »

Mz wrote: post #68
addedlovely wrote: post #51

"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…

Yours is at least the second comment talking about it this way, but I am not seeing the word cyclist on the site. I am seeing Jacquard currently offers abilities designed for urban commuters. and Levi’s® Commuter™ Trucker jacket. Did I miss the part where they say cyclist?

You missed the youtube video at the "learn more" page. A third of the video is a guy riding a bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ADVeNpypk

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by EddieRingle »

simias wrote: post #62
colorincorrect wrote: post #6

Watching the YT video, is this just a denim jacket with a touch sensor on the sleeve cuff?

Yeah I don't really get it either. Why not sell the sensor on its own so that I can wear it on anything I want? What's the added value of having it sewn to your jacket? It's not like it's particularly small or discreet.

This has been a few years in the making. The actual innovation here is the new gesture-sensitive fabric being woven into the denim, not whatever it's talking to.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by Mz »

ino wrote: post #85
Mz wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yours is at least the second comment talking about it this way, but I am not seeing the word cyclist on the site. I am seeing Jacquard currently offers abilities designed for urban commuters. and Levi’s® Commuter™ Trucker jacket. Did I miss the part where they say cyclist?

You missed the youtube video at the "learn more" page. A third of the video is a guy riding a bike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ADVeNpypk

Ah, thank you.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by ucaetano »

StefanKarpinski wrote: post #73

This may be the worst, least informative technology website I've ever seen – and that is a high (low?) bar. It fails the "what is it?" test with spectacular aplomb. And never have I learned less from a "learn more" page. “Music should keep you moving, not make you look at your phone.” Um, yeah, ok, thanks for that helpful information.

Have you thought that maybe you're not the target audience for that page, and that most people in the world are not interested in the technical details as you are?

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by falcolas »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #35

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 won't dampen the outside world at all.

Losing the ambiant noises will only occur when you overwhelm them out with your music, podcast, or navigation.

Re: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing

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Post by shimon »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #35

Isn't cycling/driving with earphone plugged dangerous? I've tried it, and I couldn't hear the ambience sounds surrounding me.

Seriously. Is this something that's already commonplace, and tech like this jacket can make less distracting? Or does this kind of stuff just enable humans to do more stuff with a fixed budget of risk? (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation)
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