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March 08, 2006
The locate-me jacket and the camcorder backpack
The Auto Salon is on in Geneva and in Hannover the massive CEBIT electronics exhibition is underway, as a result the PR machines are running full throttle, and filling our inbox.
But an announcement from German startup Interactive Wear stood out. We remember when it spun out of Infineon last June via a management buyout.
Interactive Wear is showing the O’Neill h.3 series
The ONeill h.3 is an "upgraded communication and entertainment backpack" with a water-resistant storage space for a camcorder, as well as "a flexibly mountable miniature camera for connection to the video camera", which can be installed on a helmet. It is targeted at “sport freaks” that want to film their own kite surfing adventures, dangerous free-climbing tours, or 360 acrobatics in a snowboard halfpipe.
Like concept cars, CEBIT has its share of concept gear, or in this case concept clothing.
German startup's Know Where Jacket(Photo: GPSoverIP)
It used to be automobiles that we would describe being fully loaded with a GPS location pinpointing system, mobilephone, an mp3 player, headphones, a microphone and an emergency call button, now it’s a jacket.
Antennas, wiring, and chips are all integrated in the clothing and backpack.
Read- Interactive Wear Press Kit
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