Musical Jacket :)

 Inventor: 
Burton Snowboards

When the temperature drops, music lovers are often forced to choose between unzipping their jacket, thus exposing themselves to arctic blasts, and listening to the same set of songs over and over until they pray for frostbite. With the Burton AG Clone MD Jacket, you don't have to choose. Designed for snowboarders, the jacket is made with a Sony Mini-Disc and digital music player sewn right into its fabric. The player's controls are touch-sensitive fabric patches on the jacket's sleeve, so you can control the music just by pressing your arm.


The Musical Jacket, first developed in fall 1997, has recently undergone hardware and software improvements, as well as functional updating. A special version was prepared for permanent exhibition at the reconfigured Innovations (Walt Disney World, Orlando), and a new application is being designed for Internet MP3 sound file selection and play.