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Wearable tech - Google and Levi's collaborate on 'smart' cycling jacket
A year after they announced their Project Jacquard collaboration to develop clothing that is integrated with technology, Levi’s and Google have unveiled the first product from the partnership to see the light of day.
Aimed chiefly at bike riders, the Levi's Commuter x Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket’s denim fabric allows cyclists to send commands to their phone by making swipes and taps, without the need to take the device out of the pocket.
The clothing firm and tech giant say will improve their safety, reports Android Authority - although one hand needs to be taken off the handlebars to ake the gestures.
The video above, released on Friday at the Google I/O 2016 developer conference, shows how the jacket works, as well as a cyclist using it.
A sensor on the jacket recognises taps and swipes made on the fabric, which has conductive threads that track the gestures, with the commands – such as ignoring a phone call or skipping to the next song – relayed to the phone via Bluetooth.
Set to undergo Beta testing later this year, the garment is expected to be on sale to the public from Spring 2017.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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- Steve K 6 min 8 sec ago
To be fair, not sure if that's motormativity or it's just new toy syndrome. When I'd just passed my test (roughly around the time that Pontious...
- eburtthebike 12 min 27 sec ago
Much better than what I was trying to concoct.
- chrisonabike 29 min 23 sec ago
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Quick show of hands: how many people think that if the council was to start allowing motor vehicles through there then these people wouldn't see a...
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- Rendel Harris 2 hours 17 min ago
I got the impression that he was thinking of the same jacket as me but possibly not; in any case, it isn't people making a mistake that annoys, it...
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The Chinese already got there.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bluetooth-Warm-Call-Talking-Gloves-Hand-Gestur...
Not even wrong.
Why is our hipster not wearing a helmet? Supposedly it is all about safety.
Guessing this is one of those satirical posts.
Well, those Duke boys never wore no helmets either...
Hmm, got me imagining some Daisy Dukes that you can tap and swipe
. Then I got my inner 13 year old back under control.
Neither did Rosco P. Coltrane fasten his seatbelt during those hot pursuits. lol
Well, y'know, they were never meaning no harm...
Google has just realised that they won't be able to track cyclists, only people in driverless cars; so that's a problem which needs fixing, right there.
Um... What problem are they solving here?