The jacket that guides you to your destination via lights and gentle thumps.
So cool, omg. The Navigate jacket is a GPS-enabled jacket (via a companion app) with LEDs embedded into the white ribbon stripes on the sleeves that light up one-by-one the closer you are to your destination, and little vibration motors in the shoulders that taps you if you should turn left or right. Their customers, they explain, are 18-35-year-old fashion-concious individuals in an unfamiliar environment who don’t have the luxury of looking at maps, because they’re riding a bike, for instance, or they’re blind – HELL, I DON’T KNOW WHY THEY CAN’T LOOK AT A BLOODY MAP, JUST GO WITH IT. The most important aspect of the Navigate Jacket, though, is that it’s totally adorable. “The biggest challenge with the wearable experiments, ” says Sydney-based co-founder Billie Whitehouse, “was making it comfortable and wearable and attractive so you don’t look like a computer.” Which I would think would go without saying, but, you know, FASHION, who knows, amiright?
Check out the Navagate jacket and other wearable experiments at wearableexperiments.com. (via wetheurban)
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