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What’s the biggest trend in menswear? Forget Dolce & Gabbana’s new tartan biker jackets (yes, seriously) or the velvet great-coat that Armani sent down the catwalk, what guys are going to buy is high-technology outerwear, that has taken technology from NASA and MIT and fed it straight into jackets.
There’s the Zegna Sport’s solar jacket, the world’s first coat to recharge a cellphone, iPod or BlackBerry! It does this by harnessing the sun’s energy, using solar cells which are mounted on a neoprene collar and convert solar light into sustainable energy. Textile wires carry the converted energy to a rechargeable battery or directly to your iPod or cellular phone and only four hours of sunlight is required to fully charge the battery. Nautica has a similar idea for its Stadium jacket, but in this case it’s a lithium battery that is hidden in an inner pocket. The battery feeds carbon-fibre heating technology in the front and back of the fleece vest and a tiny control panel lets the wearer increase or decrease the heat in either panel, so if you’ve got your back to the wind while watching the footie, you can have a toasty-warm spine. The rechargeable battery conserves up to 500 charges that each last between two to six hours - depending on the outside temperature. ‘The technological fashion trend is going to be huge,’ predicts one menswear buyer. ‘It’s the clothing equivalent of owning a 40-inch plasma television.’
iPod by zengame
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