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This Arctic puffer jacket stores sunlight and glows in the dark to keep you visible at night…

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Windproof, waterproof, and warm enough to see you down to -40°C (also coincidentally -40°F). These features alone would be a pretty impressive feat for a puffer jacket, but trust the guys at Vollebak to go above and beyond when it comes to textiles, material sciences, and fashion.

Say hello to the Solar Charged Puffer from Vollebak. Its name sort of gives the product away, but hey, it’s probably the jacket’s most defining feature. Crafted from a highly responsive phosphorescent material that can be instantly charged and made to glow in the dark, the Solar Charged Puffer is potent enough to respond even to flashlights, leave alone sunlight. When exposed to light, the jacket almost instantly begins giving off a kryptonite-esque glow, making it incredibly handy in low-visibility outdoor scenarios. The material is so locally responsive, you can actually write messages in the light too, just for kicks!

Its spotlight-feature aside (not my strongest pun, but I digress), the jacket was also built for sheer extremes. Like a lot of Vollebak’s gear, the Solar Charged Puffer is built to be wind-proof, waterproof, durable, and outfitted with more than enough pockets on the outside and the inside for you to stash your stuff. An insulating layer on the inside (built from recycled plastic) performs better than down, providing warmth in extremely cold conditions, but also giving you breathability so you don’t feel stuffy. Along with that, a detachable hoodie keeps your entire upper-half covered, from head to waist, when you’re out in the unforgiving outdoors.

Designer: Vollebak

Your coffee grounds can now be woven into fabric! Say hello to the world’s first “Coffee” Jacket

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I’m here to reinforce the common belief that practically anything’s possible in 2020 with this jacket, that’s made from coffee. Yes. You can apparently WEAR coffee now!

Coffee’s always been a fashionable beverage, but the Coor HELIX Multi-Climate Jacket makes it fashionable in a more literal sense. By partnering with Singtex (a company that upcycles coffee-grounds into a high-tech yarn), the guys at Coor developed a jacket that’s made to be waterproof, windproof, UV-protected, and odor-repellent (no, your jacket won’t smell like coffee). Singtex sources its coffee grounds from Starbucks (so there’s a fair chance your frappuccino made its way into a jacket), and in doing so, creates a fabric that isn’t just high-performance and durable, it’s good for the environment too, taking tonnes of waste and upcycling it into something more functional and desirable.

Without dwelling too much on its caffeinated origin, the HELIX Multi-Climate 3-in-1 Jacket was designed to be the perfect outerwear for your outdoor trips. The jacket itself is both breathable yet water and wind-proof, keeping you comfortable in the cold or in the rain. A detachable hoodie keeps you ready for any weather, while a silver-infused face-mask prepares you for urban travel, allowing you to stay protected. Additionally, silver-infused fabric patches placed strategically around the head and mouth region of the jacket help keep you protected from microbes and germs too. Outfitted with 13 pockets on the outside and the inside, the HELIX comes with ample, insulated space to store everything from your phone, wallet, and sunglasses, to even your Airpods (thanks to a designated easy-access pocket near the zip). The jacket even sports its own set of accessories for convenient outdoor-use, including a dedicated phone-grip and tether to keep your phone connected to your jacket at all times, a whistle for emergencies, and a detachable hydration pouch for you to sip water through, right from within the jacket using a hidden sipper-straw. A Velcro strip on the shoulder lets you customize your jacket using embroidered patches, and a RECCO reflector that enables rescue teams to easily spot you during an evacuation.

The HELIX Multi-Climate 3-in-1 Jacket even comes with an optional STORMFLEECE inner garment that you can either wear under the jacket, or independently out in the cold. The STORMFLEECE inner uses a special fleece-fabric (again developed by Singtex) that keeps you warm while wicking perspiration and moisture off your body. The fleece even comes with a 4-way stretch for added comfort, wind-resistance for when there’s a nip in the air, and industry-leading abrasion-resistance to allow your apparel to last longer.

The outer jacket, the detachable hood, and even the silver-infused mask all come made using Singtex’s proprietary coffee-infused yarn-tech. The coffee-grounds are compressed further to release oil which gets integrated into the fabric’s inner membranes, replacing the need for synthetic coatings and treatments. The overall fabric is tested to not only offer remarkable all-weather comfort (by being breathable yet wind and water-proof), but to also block UV-rays in the outdoors, and eliminate odor, allowing you to wear the jacket for longer without needing to wash it. YKK zippers on the jacket increase its lifespan, while the coffee-yarn itself is USDA-certified as a sustainable, biobased product… although that’s just information for you to know. To your friends, however, the Helix is just a really comfortable, functional, and fashionable jacket made from coffee!

Designer: COOR™

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Multi-Climate 3-in-1 Jacket: Upcycled from Coffee Grounds

Made from coffee grounds, the Helix Multi-Climate 3-in-1 Jacket encompasses the following key functionalities: breathability, insulation, water-resistance, wind-proofing, UV-protection and odor-control.

From fabrics, insulation to protective membranes, they are all from coffee.

Jacket for all occasions.

Functional Fabric

Smart Accessories

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13 ergonomic storage compartments with minimal bulk.

STORMFLEECE – The Ultimate Transitional Fleece Piece

STORMFLEECE is lightweight compared to conventional 2 or 3 layer; exceptional wind resistance and breathability with efficient heat retention. Single layer means no foam and no adhesive in between. It also means dyeing the fabric once. That’s cutting back several steps in production – saving valuable energy and water resources.

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This disease-repelling jacket made from a copper textile could be the new future of clothing

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Don’t worry, it’s still surprisingly comfortable though…

Metal may not really sound like an obvious candidate when it comes to textile options for clothing, but the guys at Vollebak make a pretty good point when they say that the next 100 years won’t quite be like the last. The climate’s changing, the ice caps are melting, and if Bill Gates is right, COVID-19 may just be the proverbial tip of the iceberg. It doesn’t mean we’re going to completely surrender fabrics like cotton, wool, or denim entirely, but it just means we need to start looking into future-fabrics that do much more than clad us.

Behold the Full Metal Jacket… No really, this jacket from Vollebak is actually made from a germ-repelling metallic textile. Quite unlike those space-foil jackets that astronauts wear, the Full Metal Jacket actually uses a fabric with woven strands of copper, so it’s entirely breathable, flexible, and doesn’t make a crinkly sound when you move around. With as much as 11 kilometers of copper in each jacket, the apparel relies on copper’s innate ability to kill off any bacteria or viruses that it comes in contact with.

Making clothes from metal yarn is more complex than you’d think. Sourcing metal strands is expensive, has no real precedent in clothing beyond suits of armor, and there’s no established supply chain… but I honestly can’t think of a set of constraints that have ever stopped the guys at Vollebak from pushing boundaries. I mean they’ve literally made clothes from a grade of ceramic used on the International Space Station. The Full Metal Jacket comes with three separate layers, the first of which is made from a lacquered copper yarn which is woven on rapier weaving looms before being scoured, heat-set, dyed, and dried – a process that alone takes roughly a week. This process gives the jacket its grungy denim look, but as time passes, the lacquer wears away to reveal the true copper tones in certain places, giving the jacket a uniquely appealing patina that’s comparable to the aging on a leather jacket. The outer layer gives the jacket its germ-repelling properties while also allowing it to be wind and water-proof, while a middle layer made from a laminated copper fabric allows the jacket to respond uniquely to external temperature. This middle fabric, dubbed c_change®, has a weave-pattern that expands during the heat to allow your skin to breathe and release perspiration, and contract during the cold to trap body heat and keep you warm. An inner protective fleece lining makes the jacket comfortable to wear, giving your skin the familiar touch of a soft yarn.

The Full Metal Jacket comes with four large waterproof pockets on the outside and three chest pockets for your belongings. Designed to be your everyday jacket, it can be worn in any sort of weather outdoors, and remains as comfortable and soft to touch as any sort of synthetic outerwear would… in fact, you really can’t even see the copper strands unless under a microscope. However, unlike most outerwear, synthetic or not, it possesses the ability to completely obliterate any sort of microorganism that comes in contact with it, a feature that makes it a standout product in our uncertain future. This brand of standout innovation doesn’t come cheap though. Each jacket retails for $1095, but that can be attributed to the jacket’s revolutionary medical-grade fabric, and the fact that it’s assembled in Switzerland, Italy, and in Romania. Besides, you probably won’t need to wash it either, given its ability to resist water, stains, germs, and even odor particles. Just leave it out in the sun for a bit and it should be as good as new.

Designer: Vollebak

The North Face’s high-tech Futurelight jackets are finally here

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When The North Face teased its new Futurelight fabric earlier this year, it claimed to have created its most breathable waterproof gear yet. It uses a proprietary nanospinning technology that lets air move through fabric easily and according to the c...

Graphene-coated clothing exists and we’re finally in the future

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Part jacket, part science experiment, this is perhaps Vollebak’s most ambitious project yet… and that’s after making jackets that can last on Mars, and apparel that absorbs light and glows in the dark. Graphene is one of science’s most wondrous materials. It’s incredibly light yet unbelievably tough, and consists of literally a single layer of carbon atoms bound together in their honeycomb structure. In theory, graphene apparel could one day make humans bulletproof, and the material has the ability to store infinite amounts of thermal energy. It also conducts electricity, repels bacteria, and dissipates your body’s excess humidity. Apart from the fact that it’s incredibly hard to come by in large quantities, it’s perhaps the perfect material for apparel. So in true VolleBak fashion, the adventure-clothing company managed to actually produce a series of these Graphene Jackets.

The Graphene Jacket from VolleBak is two-sided, with one being coated with the wonder-material, and the other being super-stretch super-strength nylon. The reversible jacket can be worn both ways, giving it the ability to absorb and handle heat in unusual ways. According to physicists at the Max Planck Institute, graphene has the ability to store unlimited amounts of heat, making the jacket practically a radiator that you can wear in the cold. When the graphene-coated part of the jacket faces outwards, it absorbs any thermal energy it is exposed to (be it anything from the sun to a nearby fireplace). Reverse the jacket to face the graphene layer inwards (towards your skin), and the jacket’s warmth radiates to your body, keeping you warm for long periods of time. Along with heat, graphene is a brilliant conductor of electricity too, and in most of VolleBak’s prototype tests, they could literally light a bulb by passing current through the jacket, but the final iteration of the jacket comes with an increased resistance to electricity, making it safe for humans to wear.

The Graphene Jacket, much like most of Volleback’s outdoor gear, is both waterproof and breathable. The graphene lining (I really am saying graphene a lot, aren’t I?) lowers humidity on your epidermis, making you perspire less, and the super-material even prevents bacterial-growth, so in theory, the jacket never smells or grows musty, no matter how much you wear it. As well as being bacteriostatic, the graphene membrane is also known to be hypoallergenic, anti-static, and is certified as non-toxic.

Graphene, like I mentioned earlier, is an incredibly tough and expensive material to come by, which is why the jacket exists only as a super-limited edition. In fact, the material is so expensive, all linings and pockets were laser-cut to prevent material wastage caused by cutting, trimming, and stitching seams into the clothing. The jacket, for now, comprises just a single-cell layer of graphene, which isn’t enough to stop bullets, but is more than capable of resisting wear and tear, and has passed all of VolleBak’s rigorous abrasion and puncture tests. Poised to be the future of more than just clothing, graphene holds the potential to transform almost every industry from space travel to electronics. I mean, after all it’s the only material to have its own Nobel Prize.

Designer: VolleBak

The North Face teases its most breathable waterproof gear yet

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As great as waterproof apparel is to keep you protected from bad weather, most jackets, pants and other gear tend to be too bulky or uncomfortable. That's a problem The North Face is well aware of, and it has come up with a new material that it belie...

‘Devil May Cry 5’ fans in Japan get insane $8,000 bundle

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If you plan on dressing up as Dante for Halloween, this is the jacket to get. Camcom has announced a new Devil May Cry 5 "Ultra Limited Edition" bundle via its E-Capcom website. The bundle includes a copy of the game -- either for Xbox One or PS4 --...

Nokia made a smart, fashionable jacket for first responders

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Nokia has been creating unconventional products for years, like that weird touchscreen made of ice from 2010. And now, at MWC 2018, the company is showing off a new, offbeat project that's in the works: the CHASE (connected health and safety equipmen...

You Won’t See this on a Catwalk

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The future of wearables has arrived and my goodness does it look well. Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (GATP) have been working on the future of wearables for quite some time now, trying to bridge that gap between textiles and technology – which for a while seemed more like a chasm. GATP have now officially bridged that gap with Project Jacquard – a denim jacket with conductive yarn. GATP began developing Project Jacquard over two long years ago with the god’s of denim, Levi’s. Now after all this time, a final release of the futuristic wearable is here with touch-activation clothing.

The jacket’s technology is located on the left arm cuff, which comprises of a removable and rechargeable pebble-like body of tech, connected to the jackets embedded/conductive yarn. What makes the Jacquard a smart wearable is the interactions – completely programmable by the user. Currently there are only three commands available to the user to execute – brush in, double tap, and brush out. These can be used to do such things as pause/play music, answer phone calls and a small handful of other requests.

This is truly a fantastic breakthrough and undeniably an exciting time for technology however, one must bear in mind that Project Jacquard is still in it’s infancy stage – with the rumour that the jacket can only be washed a maximum of 10 times before the conductive yarn loses its integration. Don’t let this deter you from the excitement surrounding the future of textile wearables, as this is only the beginning of something great.

Designers: Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group & Levi’s

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