There are plenty of devices and features designed to ensure you never forget your phone, but Google and Levi's Jacquard smart jacket now has a function that that automatically ensures a smartphone is never left behind. Known officially as Always Together, the feature is an automatic alert that will go off if the jacket moves too far away from a phone. When triggered, notifications will happen on both the phone and the jacket's signature sleeve tag.
This new automatic feature is paired with the manual "find your phone" feature already included in the Jacquard smart jacket. The manual feature lets wearers assign a gesture command to the jacket, which when performed, would trigger the assigned smartphone to start ringing at full volume.
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What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Automatic Phone-locating Features
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new wearable devices with automatic phone-locating features to prevent users from leaving their phones behind.
- Smart Clothing Technology
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Integrate smart technology into clothing to enhance functionality and convenience, such as automatic phone detection.
- Gesture-activated Smartphone Features
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create gesture-activated features for smartphones that can be triggered by wearable accessories, like the Jacquard smart jacket.
Sectors Adopting This
- Wearable Technology
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Expand the capabilities of wearable technology to address practical everyday challenges, such as preventing phone loss.
- Fashion and Apparel
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Merge fashion and technology by incorporating smart features into clothing items, offering consumers added value and convenience.
- Smartphone Accessories
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop innovative smartphone accessories, like gesture-activated wearables, to improve user experience and interaction with mobile devices.
