{"id":90503,"date":"2019-05-09T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cyberpunk-jacket-is-the-garment-of-choice-for-the-streets-of-2019"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:25:10","slug":"cyberpunk-jacket-is-the-garment-of-choice-for-the-streets-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cyberpunk-jacket-is-the-garment-of-choice-for-the-streets-of-2019","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk Jacket Is The Garment of Choice For The Streets of 2019"},"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\/BLD-Y1tWd3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fans of science fiction and related genres have always been disappointed by real life. The future holds so much promise on paper, yet millions were disappointed upon reaching 2015 to find that hoverboard technology still eluded us. It\u2019s not all bad, though \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Cyberpunk-Jacket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[abetusk] has developed a cyberpunk jacket so you can live out your grungy hacker fantasies in real life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The effect is achieved with specially designed jacket patches. Nylon fabric is lasercut with artwork or lettering, and then placed over an electroluminescent panel. The fabric acts as a mask and is glued onto the EL panel, and the assembly is then attached to the back of the jacket with velcro.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a build that focuses on more than just a cool visual effect. The attention to detail pays off in robustness and usability \u2013 wires are neatly fed through the lining of the jacket, and special strain relief devices are used to avoid wires breaking off the EL panels. The extra effort means this is a jacket that can withstand real-world use, rather than falling apart in the middle of a posed photo shoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/01\/12\/cyberpunk-jacket-is-the-garment-of-choice-for-the-streets-of-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of science fiction and related genres have always been disappointed by real life. The future holds so much promise on paper, yet millions were disappointed upon reaching 2015 to find that hoverboard technology still eluded us. It\u2019s not all bad, though \u2013 [abetusk] has developed a cyberpunk jacket so you can live out your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90503","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}