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it's cold out I'm wearing a smart heated jacket this is from the Ministry of supply it's a smart jacket that connects with Alexa and can heat up automatically and keep you warm in cold weather I'm talking with Gahan who's one of the founders of Ministry of supply and who's letting me wear the jacket before it's available we built this jacket with the idea of putting a smart thermostat in there so it can detect basically your body temperature the outside temperature and even if you're walking you're running and or just standing still at a bus stop and from there we can change the power so sitting a bus stop will give you full power if you're walking briskly you don't want to overheat so we'll turn the heat down like how is this powered yeah so it's just by like a standard USB battery pack so you just plug it in and it instantly turns on so it's already looking for your motion your body temperature so basically you just walk outside the door it'll turn on I have a phone in my pocket that controls the jacket and then I've got a battery here that's connected and this this hooks in yep you take the battery out and you just like keep the plug in the jack you just look in the jacket you can wash it like you can wash it it's a completely machine washable okay you just take the battery oh yeah and how does it heat up like what is what's inside this jackings I feel something yeah it's kind of making me feel like I'm starting to feel a little warm yeah yeah so basically we've got three carbon fiber heating elements one in the center back and two in the inward pockets okay if it's cold out you just put your hands in your pockets and you'll feel the warmth from those heating pads and those are basically just turning the power from your battery pack into heat that you can feel and it gets up to 135 degrees but that's basically like when you're holding a nice warm cup of coffee our application you just tell it I want it warmer or cooler and that's all you have to tell it and basically from there it learns your preference so you know if it's you know fifty five degrees and you want to be a little bit warmer we'll the next time we see that temperature give you a little bit more heat there's a power button here yeah yeah do I need to press that you know something that's critical this is just to turn the jacket off if you don't have the phone on you or anything and you just want to turn it off completely do you imagine other smart controls in the future with Alexa yeah what's really cool is you know the way we've built this you know we in the future have other developers build other skills for the jacket like what like what would you do I you know it you could you know build into your morning routine like Alexis start my morning routine turn on the espresso machine and then preheat my jacket we ship with a 10,000 milliamp battery so that will give you actually about four and a half hours at full heat so if you were just running that heater on the full time you'll get about four and a half hours but because of the machine learning but we actually find is that you only need heat when you step out the door or you're waiting at the bus stop and so through that intelligent control we can actually get to about a week of usage on one battery charge exam it feels pretty comfy this is a lease it's a completely waterproof breathable shell so it's time to keep you dry in the snow it's wind proof and we've got a insulation in there as well so if the even if the battery is off you'll still be stay quite warm so but it's got great four-way stretch as well so what is that what is it made out of yeah so it's really cool it's made out of recycled polyester that's been infused with coffee grounds for odor control so it's a thing with jackets most people don't wash their jacket all that often so they want to bake it so it can stay fresh even through that