Gadgetory

watch where you're go it's a pretty good rule of thumb though most of us ignore it daily as we bury our heads in our phones but Billy Whitehouse of Australian company wearable experiments has a forward-thinking answer navigate jacket is the urban wayfinding jacket it's giving your eyes back to the city it's an ability to walk around the city without having to look at a map so it's Matt free travel this prototype was designed for women but a men's version was just unveiled at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival the Blazers communicate via bluetooth with your phone enter your destination in a mobile app and let the jacket be your guide so we're building a language around haptic feedback around vibration sensors built into the shoulders that tell you when to turn left and tell you when to turn right and then we have a countdown on your sleeve that allows you to know how many meters until you turn sewn into the jacket is a Bluetooth module and a circuit board wearable experiments is aiming for a battery life of seven hours for most of us it's difficult enough keeping our phones charged do we really want plug in clothing as well but what if powering up was simpler as simple as taking the jacket and hanging it up we hope to build induction charges into a current hanger that specifically made for the jacket that way you don't have to go home and think about charging another device I think that's where the wearable technology market is missing its key its legs at the moment we don't want to have to think about all these other devices to charge and to turn on we want them to be really intuitive into our lives the company says the final version will feature removable electronics and it'll be washable and they won't stop there we're really looking forward to eventually working at making it voice-activated and also having it of speakers in it so that people who are vision impaired could be directed in the load of different ways throughout GPS jacket wearable experiments hopes to license this tech to another company to manufacture so no word yet on when the navigate jacket will be ready to wear though it has launched a clothing product in Australia the alert shirt also has built-in vibration sensors it's designed for Australian football fans as they watch a game the shirt simulates the sensations of player feels in real time from full-body tackles to heart thumping pre-kick jitters so if you're wondering about the future of fashion chances are we'll be decked out in tech in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet for CBS News