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Scottevest Transformer Jacket - An Innovative Garment For Gadget Geeks

5/30/2013 11:29:35 AM

Scottevest has been around for nearly 13 years. I have watched the company evolve since the beginning, when they were just producing a not-so-fashionable windbreaker made up of a bunch of pockets and Velcro. While some of the changes over the last decade have come from new fashion trends, most of them have come from changes in technology - both the devices people carry, and the materials available to clothing manufacturers.

Scottevest Transformer Jacket: an innovative garment for gadget geeks

Scottevest Transformer Jacket: an innovative garment for gadget geeks

Fashion

The Scottevest Transform­er Jacket ($160, www.scottevest.com) is a nice-looking men's jacket with 20 pockets for your tech goodies. It has trim lines, ergonomic zipper pulls, and a Teflon-treated exte­rior. Magnets along the shoulder seams let you detach the sleeves in only a few seconds, turning the jack­et into a vest; a good tug on the sleeves or the upper back panel makes them come right off.

Transforming previous Scottevest incarnations from jacket to vest and back again wasn't something you could do on the fly. In earlier versions, you had to remove the garment in or­der to reattach the sleeves. Now, the magnets on various attachment points snap back into place easily.

Transforming previous Scottevest incarnations from jacket to vest and back again wasn't something you could do on the fly.

Transforming previous Scottevest incarnations from jacket to vest and back again wasn't something you could do on the fly.

Tech

Three major advancements have hit the tech market since the inception of the original Scottevest: wireless, touch screens, and tablets. Wireless has affected the design by eliminating most of the patented system of tunnels and Velcro previous­ly used to route wires through the jacket. The previous TEC (Technology-Enabled Clothing) features have been augmented to include mesh pockets that let you control your touch-screen devices without removing them from the jacket.

You have to give props to the Scottevest team for thinking of everything (and listening to their customers). A key fob is nice; an eyeglass chamois on an elastic cord is genius. There is even a slot for an SD card. Most of the pockets are labeled with individual icons so you know what's intended to go where, but they're merely guidelines.

The team at Scottevest didn't forget tablet own­ers - a very large pocket on the left side of the jacket comfortably holds an iPad.

Innovative Outerwear

At $160, the Transformer Jacket isn’t a casual invest­ment. For the traveler, it should be in the luggage budget, not the cloth­ing budget. I wear mine everywhere. At the airport, it saves me time going through se­curity, since I don't have to remove items from my pock­ets, place everything in the tray, and put everything back after going through the scanner. I can just remove my Scottevest and put it back on af­ter going through.

This is a well-made, innovative jacket that no geek should go without.

This is a well-made, innovative jacket that no geek should go without.

Think about it: no sore shoulders, no bag constantly slipping as you walk, and no backpack to remove to get to your stuff. It's all right there, where you need it. And if you don't like the Transformer Jacket, take a look at the other options on the Scottevest website. They have everything from trench coats to expedition jackets. This is a well-made, innovative jacket that no geek should go without.

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