Wearable iPods and Cell Phones at a Store Near You
It is now the year 2005 and we are still left wondering where are all the jetpacks, flying cars and aluminum suits promised to us by every Sci-Fi film. While we may still not have a personal jetpack to rise high above the LA traffic and smog we can at least breathe a sigh of relief that someone is finally beginning to integrate audio technology into clothing. After all, putting some audio cables inside a jacket is merely the low-hanging fruit of our techno-fashion future.
In a bid to increase the appeal of Motorola’s phones and a continuation of Burton’s iPod integrated line of clothing, the two companies announced today that they will be selling jackets that integrate cell phones and iPods in one convenient (if expensive) snowboarder jacket.
The jackets will have a padded casing for a Motorola cell phone and an MP3 music player. They will feature a device on the sleeve that lets the wearer control incoming and outgoing calls, and toggle back and forth to music, sending audio signals to removable speakers in the hood.
The new clothes will use Blue Tooth, a popular technology that allows devices such as headsets and computers to communicate with each other over a short range without wired connections.
Integrating our portable gadgets (that seem to multiply every time we aren’t looking) into clothing has seemed like a no-brainer forever. Burton’s involvement in this initiative is no surprise since after the release of the initial iPods they announced their first iPod jacket. It was later followed with an entire line of iPod integrated gear likethis backpack with iPod integration. Do only hip snowboarders deserve this technology? Apparently Motorola believes this is the way to “hipsterize” their image as they have lost ground in the cell phone arena in 2004.
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