Jackets

Gmail Keeps You Connected and Now Keeps You Warm

Freshly laundered and added to the Google store, these hoody sweatshirts cost just $41.75 and come with—drum roll please—A GMAIL LOGO. [Google Store via Gmail Blog – Thanks, Brian!]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 4

Who Cares About Impossible Project’s New Polaroid Film When They Sell These Amazing Jackets?

The Impossible Project, a cadre of fussy men who’ve managed to manufacture new film for Polaroid instant cameras, are open for business. Forget the film—check out these vintage factory jackets! Okay, don’t forget the film just yet. There’s a wide range of cameras and film available at their online store, but it ain’t cheap. A…

Tech News Joel Johnson Mar 22

Refugium Jacket Staves Off Hypothermia…Or Charges Your iPod!

Most jackets trap your body’s warmth. Few generate their own. The Mountain Hardwear Refugium Jacket includes a cleverly concealed battery that warms your core for 8.6 hours and includes the option to charge your gadgets, too. https://gizmodo.com/ardicas-amazing-heated-jacket-tech-lightning-review-5142422 The heat is customizable, featuring three levels of warmth that you activate with a tab in the coat’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 28

Philips Emotion Jacket Touches You In Movie Theaters

End of Titanic. Rose floating on debris, Jack in the water. You want to cry but can’t. Philips’ new concept jacket gives you a little hug (out of sympathy? pity?) and there go the waterworks. Philips senior scientist Paul Lemmens and a team of researchers have devised a jacket—but sorry dudes, no matching pants—that augments…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 19

Modu’s Modular Cellphone Jacket System Coming In Q2

Last year, Modu teased us with their plans for a cellphone that could be inserted into other gadgets (“jackets”) in order to change and personalize its function. Today those plans have been fully unveiled. https://gizmodo.com/modu-cellphone-changes-function-with-jackets-353637 At the heart of the modu ecosystem is a tiny, modular and sleek mobile phone. In addition to complete mobile…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 11

Ardica’s Amazing Heated Jacket Tech: Lightning Review

The Gadget: The toasted bliss that is Ardica’s heated jacket pack. I will never brave the cold without one. The Price: Varies but around $375 for jacket and system The lowdown: The idea of a heated jacket isn’t new. But neither is the perception that such a set up would be heavy, bulky, sweaty and…

Reviews Brian Lam Jan 29

The North Face’s Aluminum-Coated, Reversible Mercurial Jacket

This winter jacket’s reversible lining has silver and black sides. The breathable aluminum-coated surface reflects up to 47% more sun than the cold weather black side, keeping the wearer much cooler when its out. The jacket is filled with a primaloft, my favorite synthetic down replacement, which stays warm when damp. I’m curious as to…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 22

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

You know how in the Matrix humans were grown in farms to harvest bodies to power machines? The kids at Berkeley Lab (Giz trivia: Chen’s a Berkeley grad) are making a jacket that does the same thing, but it powers gadgets like laptops and cellphones instead of futile resistance to Keanu Reeves. Basically they’re going…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Mar 27

O’Neill NavJacket Shows the Way with GPS, Integrated Audio/Video

O’Neill is offering its European market a glimpse of the snowy future with the NavJacket, a GoreTex parka with a stitched-in GPS receiver, speakers in the hood, and a “flexible display sleeve.” We don’t have any demonstration video (but damn do we wish we did). In fact, this is really the only picture floating around.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Dec 14

OK Go to Rock Moritz Waldemeyer LED Suits on Their Upcoming Tour

First they wowed us with their treadmill love, and now OK Go are looking to light up fans’ lives with the costumes for their upcoming tour. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer (standing on the right in the fifth gallery picture), who has collaborated with London-based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, as well as architect Zaha Hadid and…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Nov 26

Smoking Jacket Eliminates 2nd Hand, Tars Another Pair of Lungs

The Smoking Jacket is a conceptual work by Fiona Carswell. It includes a giant popped collar where smoke can be blown in to. There is a pair of lungs on the front that kind of act like a warning system to others and filters the smoke. Over time the lungs will darken from the cigarette…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 21

Excubo Sleeping Jacket: For Those Brave Enough To Sleep On the Subway

Should, for some reason, you choose to sleep on public transportation, you’ll appreciate this weird jacket thing that recently won an industrial design competition. Dubbed the Excubo, the jacket has a what I can only describe as a really big popped collar that’s used to cushion and hold in place the wearer’s neck. Mr. Big…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 26

Plantronics to Develop Bluetooth Winter Gear for Quiksilver/Roxy

Plantronics, Roxy and Quiksilver are jumping on the bandwagon that Burton has been commanding with years by releasing some Bluetooth-enabled snow wear that will communicate with your iPod and cellphone while on the slopes. Quiksilver will be releasing the Double Daffy Snow Jacket and Pulse Helmet. Roxy (basically the female version of Quiksilver) will be…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 23

‘Gadget Jacket’ is Just a Glorified Normal Jacket

This “CAB” jacket is supposedly built for gadgets, says designer Hannah Perner-Wilson, but in all reality it is just a normal jacket with a lot of pockets. This piece visualizes feelings towards an era of dependency on mobile technology. All these new possibilities right here, right now, right wherever we stand. We carry with us…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 10

ScottEVest Tactical v4.0 Solar Hands-On

In my continuing mission to become Lupus Yonderboy of the Panther Moderns, I was happy to take a look at the ScottEVest Tactical v4.0 Solar, a $379.99 solar jacket that can recharge your MP3 player, USB vibrator, and/or Thump 2 using the magical rays of the sun. https://gizmodo.com/oakley-thump-2-hands-on-139339 This jacket, like the other SeV stuff…

Gadgets Johnb Dec 8

Gmail Keeps You Connected and Now Keeps You Warm

Who Cares About Impossible Project’s New Polaroid Film When They Sell These Amazing Jackets?

Refugium Jacket Staves Off Hypothermia…Or Charges Your iPod!

Philips Emotion Jacket Touches You In Movie Theaters

Modu’s Modular Cellphone Jacket System Coming In Q2

Ardica’s Amazing Heated Jacket Tech: Lightning Review

The North Face’s Aluminum-Coated, Reversible Mercurial Jacket

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

O’Neill NavJacket Shows the Way with GPS, Integrated Audio/Video

OK Go to Rock Moritz Waldemeyer LED Suits on Their Upcoming Tour

Smoking Jacket Eliminates 2nd Hand, Tars Another Pair of Lungs

Excubo Sleeping Jacket: For Those Brave Enough To Sleep On the Subway

Plantronics to Develop Bluetooth Winter Gear for Quiksilver/Roxy

‘Gadget Jacket’ is Just a Glorified Normal Jacket

ScottEVest Tactical v4.0 Solar Hands-On

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