Thursday, December 11, 2014

How much can you fit in the 'ultimate gadget jacket'?

AyeGear is a small Scottish firm with a big ambition: to make the ultimate gadget jacket. Now, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that gadget jackets were a thing, but let me assure you that they are and that there's one in the video above.


The concept is that traveling can be tricky for the technologically-obsessed: phones; tablets; cameras; laptops, the list goes on. It's hard to carry them all at once.


You could, of course, put them in a bag. But imagine that, for some perfectly valid but unknown reason, you couldn't - you'd be stuck.


Until, that is, you got hold of a J25 jacket with its 25 bewildering pockets.


The idea is that you secrete all of your gadgets on your person and ditch the backpack. One of the pockets is even big enough to hold a 15in laptop, and the two transparent smartphone pockets allow you to use the touchscreens without removing them. It's clever stuff.



AyeGear's 25 jacket before being filled up with the gadgets on the table


But just how much can you fit in there? We decided to test the limits, adding:


- A copy of The Daily Telegraph


- An iPhone 5C


- A 'Brick' phone


- A Nokia smartphone


- An Honor 6


- A Samsung tablet


- Two Kindles


- An umbrella


- My keys


- A set of over-the-ear headphones


It all fit. With space to spare. And the pockets are cleverly stitched so that they don't sag and droop. It still feels like a jacket, basically, rather than an enormous cotton sack full of gadgets that happens to have armholes.



AyeGear's 25 jacket fully loaded. Is it sylish though?


Not the most stylish jacket in the world, certainly, but not the ugliest. It's functional.


The only problem is that it gets tremendously heavy as you fill it up. Unlike a backpack, which you can drop on the floor on the Tube, elevators and lifts for brief respite, you need to keep this jacket on. It feels rather claustrophobic.


I'm yet to be convinced by the merits of a gadget jacket, but they certainly do work. If you're strongly opposed to carrying a bag, for some reason, and have to lug around huge amounts of gadgets, for some reason, this is exactly what you've been waiting for.


Would you wear a gadget jacket?


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