GPS World, December 2014

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damages incurred by readers in reliance on such content Published monthly My Heart in My Sleeve T he next time I see Paris I will be swinging down the boulevard in a brand new set of threads An elegant location enabled set of threads that will take me by the sleeve and lead me through the City of Light This wearable experiment goes by the name of course it does Navigate a new line of city specific locationenhanced apparel Either plug or Bluetooth the jacket the press materials I wandered along the avenue heart open to the unknown are not clear on this point into your smartphone download the appropriate city guide with walking tour and start your adventure Stash the phone in the pocket of the houndstooth jacket with red felt collar flips no further need to look at it Vibrations along left or right arm tell you when to turn their frequency intensity and placement vary to indicate soft turn merge or hard turn Oh I love the colorful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair Im pickin up good vibrations oom bop bop shes giving me excitations oom bop bop Good good good good vibrations How we can ease the stress of navigating an unfamiliar path without interfering with the experience of discovering a new place asks Billie Whitehouse design director of Wearable Experiments No longer do you need to hunch over a map or smartphone Now you can experience fill the blank here as a traveler rather than a tourist Not interfering with the experience of discovering a new place that caught my attention In my misspent youth I traversed the upper Amazon the Andean highlands and the Galapagos Islands unencumbered by a camera To my lasting regret I thought the device lifted to my eyes would interfere with my discovery and experience Now I see my error Instead of subtracting a layer of technology from my travel trunk I should have added one That GPS did not exist at that time except as a gleam in young Col Parkinsons eye perhaps absolves the fault in this case The skin is a vastly underutilized form of communication says Wear Ex technical director Ben Moir Haptic vibrations are built into a full physical language allowing the technology to communicate critical information Technology doesnt need to be invasive or obtrusive It should be designed with the human at the center From signals in space to the surface of my skin It doesnt get much more human centric than that Je me baladais sur lavenue Le coeur ouvert à linconnu GPS World December 2014 www gpsworld com 6