Gadgetory

so I haven't actually been waiting to buy a Levi's trucker jacket for over a year that's how long it's been since Levi's and Google announced this jacket it's the trucker commuter jacket with project jacquard built in and it has a pretty expensive price you might call it a designer price it costs three hundred and fifty dollars so why the long wait and why that very expensive price well this jacket has intelligent capacitive fibers woven into the literal fabric so that you can just do that and music starts playing it connects to your smartphone via bluetooth app so let's check that out so once you've paired and set it up this is what the app looks like you've really only got three four core gestures and you can customize them to do whatever you want so the brush in which is what I did to play my music this one's really neat the DoubleTap when you double tap and then it just gives you whatever your next direction is to go home which is pretty clever and then you can also just cover your sleeve to stop whatever the you know action is that it's doing when jacquard is hooked up and you're on your bike it automatically defaults to reading all of your notifications out loud which is potentially annoying but you can go in and set it to this thing called ping which means it will only allow calls and texts in from people that you actually care about so you're less distracted on the road but really one of the more fun things you can do and you should actually just see how this works is you can see how these capacitive threads work so if I open this thing up these frets represent the threads on my sleeve so I can like it's kind of fun you can kind of see where your fingers it's also pressure-sensitive and yeah it's just kind of fun to play around with but the point is you've got these very simple easier member gestures that you set up yourself and once you do that while you're riding your bike you are able to just get you know the quick information the quick song change that you need without having to hassle with it the cuff will also vibrate when you have an incoming notification so it acts a little bit like a SmartWatch in that way and you can do other weird stuff like you can you know count the stuff if you're a bouncer I guess you can get to check the current time see how long it'll take you to get to where you're going and so on so that's it it's a very simple app but that's on purpose because this isn't meant to be gadgety it's meant to be just a thing that helps you do a couple quick things while you're riding your bike so that's how the app works but the app kind of isn't the point the point is that this is just a nice jacket and in fact you can treat it like you would pretty much any other jean jacket once you take off this little cuff dongle thing which is how it connects to your phone set it aside you can throw the whole jacket in the wash so you can just treat it like anything else and it works really well for its purpose which is people who commute by a bicycle it's got a little extender on the back reflectors pop the collar there's another reflector and pockets for all of your gadgets so 350 admittedly is a bit more than you normally pay for a jacket like this especially from Levi's but it's not crazy for a very nice piece of clothing and if you want your very nice piece of clothing to maybe make you less likely to look at your phone while you're riding your bike because don't do that then it's gonna be worth a look so that's the Duquette so that's the jacket