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German Clothier Introduces Wireless Jacket

WishX   on 27 July 2004 - 01:11 · 5 comments & 335 views

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If it's simply unbearable to be unable to hear music, here's something you should slip on: a jacket with a built-in MP3 player.

A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a German clothing firm, incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar.

The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone tucked into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard.

A tiny electronic module containing the music player and the battery, which the company says is good for up to eight hours per charge, can be slipped out so the jacket can be washed.

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News source: Associated Press


Previously, music purchased through RealNetworks' music download services could most easily be played on devices that supported its copyright protection technology. By the same token, the easiest way to get digital music onto the iPod player was through Apple's iTunes Music Store, which uses its own system. The same held true for devices that supported Microsoft's Windows Media Player anti-piracy technology.

Microsoft said it could not immediately comment on the system.


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#1 Mister Lamar on 27 Jul 2004 - 01:13
oh yea, Ill pass on one of these high tech jackets
#2 Nathan on 27 Jul 2004 - 01:25
#3 DWZ on 27 Jul 2004 - 08:01
ummm, this was kinda posted a few hours ago... http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=22559&category=main
(1 reply) #4 theLANDofSMEG on 27 Jul 2004 - 08:56

The jacket looks like crap, I'ld still hit it though

It would be cool if it went with one of those black puffy jackets
#4.1 Octol on 28 Jul 2004 - 01:21
You take the jacket. I'll take what's in it!

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