Sometimes, even the GPS available on your phone isn’t enough to get you where you want to go. This si why, following the wearable technology craze sweeping the industry, Wearable Experiments has created the Navigate jacket, clothing that uses haptic feedback and LED lighting to give its wearer simple, easy-to-follow directions without the hassle of a constantly recalculating GPS. All the wearer has to do is follow the LED lights on the sleeves, and he or she will arrive at a destination with style.
Described as a “socially driven wearable technology company,” Wearable Experiments wishes to bring together fashion and technology as a functional design, and the Navigate jacket certainly manages that. With the help of a mobile app for storing destinations and uploading the directions to the jacket using the built in GPS system, wearers can use the jacket to get to their destination without even opening their phones to look at a map.
Navigate jackets gives wearers directions through LEDs.
Directions are visualized on the jacket’s sleeves, with LED lights that let the wearer know how far they are from their destination or an upcoming turn, while haptic feedback vibrations alert the wearers of when and which direction they should turn.
Like most of the wearable tech hitting the market, the Navigate jacket is meant to be both a useful tool and a fashion accessory, so the technology is designed to blend in with the jacket’s style and overall design. Like most of Wearable Experiments’ designs, the Navigate jacket makes use of a unique combination of hardware, software, and fashion design. In a modern world that seems to be going crazy for wearable technology, Wearable Experiments hit the mark perfectly with this jacket.
To see more designs like this, visit Wearable Experiments.
Source Mashable
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