Jacket's Sleeves Vibrate to Point Wearer in Right Direction

Socially driven wearable-technology company Wearable Experiments created the Navigate jacket, which uses haptic feedback and LED lighting to provide directions for the wearer.

The jacket comes with an accompanying app that stores destinations and uploads the directions to the jacket with the built-in GPS system and allows wearers to walk to their destination without having to whip out their devices for directions or even look at maps, for that matter.

The directions are visualized on the sleeves. LED light lets the wearer know how far they are before the next turn and the current phase of their journey. Vibrations let the wearer know when to turn and in which direction. Read more...