Smart Commuter Trucker Jacket

“Wearable technology” most often equates to a bracelet that track how many calories you’re burning at the gym or … well, actually, that’s pretty much it (or, let’s be honest, all you’re using it for). But a new project between Google and Levi’s will change all that, with a jacket that has interactivity woven into its very fibers.

Last week, the search engine monolith announced that it has partnered with Levi’s for the first piece of clothing to come out of Project Jacquard, a textile innovation that allows traditional fabric looms to put conductive yarns into everything from cotton to upholstery material. For its collaboration with Levi’s, Google applied the technology to the brand’s Commuter jacket, a trucker designed with bikers in mind.

Google and denim jeans company Levi’s have developed a new jacket that lets users interact with their smartphones by swiping at the garment in various ways, a media report said.

Smart Commuter Trucker Jacket

The special yarns in the jacket link up to a sensor at the wearer’s left cuff. The sensor—which you can take off and charge with a USB plugin—is touch sensitive, allowing wearers to answer or decline calls, skip songs and adjust the volume on their playlists, and even access turn-by-turn directions with simple gestures like swipes and taps. (When you take the sensor off, the rest of the jacket can be washed just like any other garment.)

Following their announcement from last year, Google and denim jeans company Levi’s have developed a new jacket that lets users interact with their smartphones by swiping at the garment in various ways.

Called the ‘Commuter Trucker Jacket’, the garment is aimed at cyclists who may be too busy riding and concentrating on their surroundings to reach into their pockets and fiddle with their phones, Forbes reported on Friday citing Paul Dillinger, company head of global product innovation.

The jacket is apparently waterproof – except for a detachable electronic smart tag that activates a wireless connection between the clothing and a mobile device. “If you get this thing dirty, you put it in the washing machine,” said Dillinger during Google’s annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, this week.

The garment is powered by Google’s Project Jacquard technology developed by the internet giant’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group.

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