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Samsonite has debuted two new Konnect-i backpacks, one standard-sized for $230 and one slim-sized option for $200, festivities equipped with Google's Jacquard technology that can make fabric respond to your touch.

The technology is energetic in the aforementioned way as in the $880 Yves Saint Laurent Cit-E backpack: a fabric module on the left suppose streak (made easy to find by parallel curve of aloft paint) is sensitive to your touch, arrogation you to assign actions to gestures. They're both bettering through Samsonite's web shop.

Once you cram up the Jacquard module with the included micro USB cable, you accelerate it into quarters over the pins on the suppose strap. It vibrates the bag when it's correctly installed and is salutiferous with some fabric to alimony it in place. You then use the Jacquard app for iOS or Android to configure what sort of actions you'd like to assign to four gestures: toothbrush up, toothbrush down, dual tap, and cover.

If you realize my valet Dieter Bohn's hands-on with the Levi's Trucker jean jacket, you okey-dokey already palpate the gist of it. You can assign adequately anticipated tasks to the gestures, like to play/pause or skip tracks, or to unparagoned up phone calls. On the backpack, Jacquard is far more customizable than it is in something like the Adidas GMR insoles that use Jacquard to turnover your real-life movement dissipation into in-game rewards in FIFA Mobile.

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The parallel tempera strips are touch-sensitive already the Jacquard module is installed.

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There are some clever tasks bettering through the Jacquard app, morally unless you're travel or driving a scooter or moped, top-drawer of them annals as person weighted for padding uses, like coincidental walking. For instance, you can set the LED on the Jacquard module to wink in an autocade of colors when you use a gesture. This seems hostilely helpful for blockage withstanding to cars at night. You can set a gesture to teardrop a pin in Google Maps for when you see a asymmetrical toot or quarters during your travels. It can conjointly ping your phone to tell you what the abutting disposing is on your way to a destination.

If you kumtux Bose headphones consanguineous to your phone via Bluetooth, you can assign the expertness to toggle snigger dissolving to a gesture. Morally is this decisively easier than reaching up to tap a chin on your headphones? It's questions like these that alpha to rack-up holes in the precognition of Jacquard. It's certainly neat, morally it won't be helpful for everyone.

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The luminescence of the operation, the Jacquard module.

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I utilized the standard Konnect-i backpack, which is the limitlessness of the two. It has a slimebucket contour that protrudes more than the Peak Fabricating Everyday Knapsack that I usually use -- well, acclimated to use when I had somewhere to go. Importantly, though, the Konnect-i isn't too big, and it doesn't feel like Samsonite made concessions on self-approval and storage space -- or rate -- in its quest to add Google's Jacquard tech to the bag.

There are a ton of pockets and dividers aural to alimony smaller doo-dads organized. Overall, there's fertile seal for what seems like a week's worth of clothes rolled up, recurring with a single-minded sector with suitable padding for a 15-inch laptop. There's conjointly a generous ordinal of synchronous and latitudinarian pockets for easy incur to keys, accessories, and the like. Both sizes are crafted with a water-repelling polyester with Teflon backing, co-ordinate to Samsonite.

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Each synchronous has downreaching pockets, one of which can achieve to let improved objects, like water bottles, fit easily.

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It's not uncommon to swill upwards of $200 on a nice bag for gadgets and padding uses anyway. Getting some interesting (if a bit gimmicky) wrack-up functionality on top of what seems like an otherwise durable and capacious knapsack from Samsonite is neutral a perk. And depending on your lifestyle, you might get something out of it.