Welcome to the future: Bluetooth jackets you can only wash 10 times. Gee, thanks, Google Blue pants maker Levi's plans to begin selling its first cloth-ware with Google inside on Wednesday – and the tech should survive up to 10 washes. The $350 Levi's Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard by Google has been designed to function as device controller through the incorporation of Project Jacquard, Google's connected …
The interesting thing: we have here an item made by people with far more money and technical acumen than common sense, who don't have to worry about working hard enough to break a sweat, and who live in a place where it gets cool enough to wear a light jacket. If you didn't know Silicon Valley existed, you could now deduce its existence.
Yes. But. The odds of getting laid would increase exponentially if one paid 100$ for mandatory drinks and the rest, 250$ on the "takeaway services" offered by the club where one goes to get laid. The jacket just signals that 350$ of potential earnings were lost. Probably won't get past the bouncers.
And just what does "The jacket is designed to withstand up to 10 washes ..." mean? Is it "this jacket might be able to withstand 10 washes, but after that it will fail" or "this will withstand at least 10 washes, maybe more"? Typically ambiguous statements like this will be used for hiding behind later.
How is this any more convenient or easier to use than a £10 Bluetooth watch which can not only control various phone functions, but also display messages? On a hot day, a watch is more comfortable to wear than a jacket.
Not that I personally find it particularly arduous to take my phone from my pocket.
When the heck did it become socially acceptable again to wear jean jackets? (Especially by anyone not old enough to have been there.) That was one fashion faux pas (of many) that I didn't think was EVER coming back! Do they come with a free pair of stylin' Glasshole shutter shades? Oooh, what about parachute pants? (Not to be confused with Hammer pants....) It's no wonder a millennial won't wear a smartwatch. They must already have a giant clock suspended from a gold chain around their neck. Go get 'em Google and your spiffy jean jacket! I'm sure it's a brilliant idea with absolutely no obvious flaws.
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