Earlier Google in partnership with Levi’s to make a Commuter Jacket. That allowed users to control certain aspects of their smartphone using sensors in the jacket and gesture controls. Now Google is working on a new wave of connected clothes, starting with a connected Saint Laurent for a Cit-e backpack smart backpack. So, Google’s showing trend into a line of clothing and fashion products this year, starting with an Yves Saint Laurent smart backpack.
This backpack features a touch-sensitive shoulder strap for controlling a connected smartphone. The Cit-e backpack is expensive with $1000.
Google’s Cit-e Smart Backpack
This time, Google is back with “Project Jacquard” in collaboration with fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent. The backpack is equipped with smart touch sensors in the strap to allow the wearer to access a connected smartphone. Much like the smart jean jacket, the sleek black backpack’s sensor can be tapped or swiped to issue commands to your smartphone, such as lowering the volume on your music, receive a text message, or accessing Google Maps.
Besides that the Google’s Jacquard 2.0 aims to ride alongside another experimental technology, the radar-based Soli tech in the upcoming Pixel 4 phone. It shows the company’s ambitions towards an ambient computing future.
While, speaking of it feature, it has feature My Day,” that provides a rundown of weather, your commute, the news, and calendar events, and you can use the tag with your phone’s camera. In fact, there are four gestures that can be triggered, “Brush In,” “Brush Down,” “Double Tap,” and “Cover.” On the other hand, to make the programming easier, the Project Jacquard has app as well.
On the other hand, it is embedded on a rather long strip of the left shoulder strap. It supports four gestures: brush down, brush up, double tap, and cover. Therefore, user can lay the enter palm on the fabric. There is also a notification indicator that provides “custom alerts” at the bottom of the strap.
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