‘You don’t listen to this jacket. You feel it’: someone made a sci-fi jacket that includes 180 built-in speakers, and for way weirder reasons than you’d expect
- Vollebak reveals a Sonic Jacket with 180 built-in speakers
- It's designed to immerse you in frequencies, not music
- The idea is to help get your brain into "entrainment" states
If you saw the jacket worn in the picture above and thought it looked like something out of a sci-fi movie, you're not wrong. It was designed by a special effects team that's worked on movies such as The Martian, Dune and Marvel projects. But it's no costume.
This is a new technological monstrosity from clothing brand Vollebak, which we previously saw release a graphene rain jacket, and quite a few other novel pieces of science-inspired clothing. This is the Sonic Jacket, and it's a big puffy coat bearing 180 speakers.
That's right, 180 speakers, each one 32mm across, spread across your torso and arms and head. They apparently output a frequency range from 4Hz to 20,000Hz, so they...
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