{"id":35771,"date":"2017-03-31T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/google-and-levis-are-releasing-the-worlds-first-smart-jacket-this-year"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:54","slug":"google-and-levis-are-releasing-the-worlds-first-smart-jacket-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/google-and-levis-are-releasing-the-worlds-first-smart-jacket-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Google and Levi\u2019s Are Releasing the World\u2019s First \u2018Smart Jacket\u2019 This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJ-lcdMfziw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of activity trackers and smartwatches, it\u2019s fair to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-wearable-skin-patch-from-l-oreal-monitors-how-much-uv-you-re-getting\">wearable technology<\/a> hasn\u2019t really taken off just yet, but if Google and Levi\u2019s have their way, that could soon be about to change.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies are teaming up to release their first co-designed product \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levi.com\/US\/en_US\/features\/levi-commuter-xgoogle-jacquard\/\">the world\u2019s first \u2018smart\u2019 trucker jacket<\/a> (yep, that\u2019s a thing now). It looks for the most part like a regular Levi\u2019s Commuter jacket, but with a conductive fabric called \u201cinteractive denim\u201d and a Bluetooth device that attaches to the sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/google-wants-turn-everything-wearable\/\">back in 2015<\/a> that Google first announced its plan to make connected clothing like this \u2013 dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/atap.google.com\/jacquard\/\">Project Jacquard<\/a> \u2013 and the Levi\u2019s jacket will be the first garment incorporating the technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-and-levi-s-are-releasing-the-world-s-first-smart-jacket-this-year\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-and-levi-s-are-releasing-...-this-year<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the exception of activity trackers and smartwatches, it\u2019s fair to say that wearable technology hasn\u2019t really taken off just yet, but if Google and Levi\u2019s have their way, that could soon be about to change. The two companies are teaming up to release their first co-designed product \u2013 the world\u2019s first \u2018smart\u2019 trucker jacket [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58231,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions\/58231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}