A little light news if you don't mind. If you thought drivers talking on a cell phone were annoying, wait till you get within snowball throwing range of a geeky snowboarder wearing his wired Bluetooth all-weather MP3 wear .
| The snowboarding, gadget-loving crowd have something to celebrate: The European division of sports gear retailer O'Neill will sell a snowboarding jacket with an MP3 player and a Bluetooth module, for those all important mountaintop mobile phone calls, integrated into the jacket.
The snowboarding jacket, called The Hub, features a chip module containing a full-featured MP3 player and a Bluetooth module for controlling a mobile phone, built by Infineon Technologies. Electrically conductive tracks woven into the fabric connect the chip module to a fabric keyboard and built-in speakers in the helmet, Norbert Pollemans, a spokesperson for O'Neill Europe, says. The jacket will be sold throughout Europe for about $ 638 by the end of August or the beginning of September, for O'Neill's 2004/05 winter collection, Pollemans says. |
In a radical first, the outerwear will be initially offered to men only, leaving the ladies in a technical fashion lurch, until next ski season! Tested to withstand snow, rain, and freezing temperatures, the jacket's stereo system also works as the headset for making phone calls, with a microphone integrated in the jacket's collar.
Source: Yahoo!
