Monday, March 2, 2009

WANT: Jacket With Inflatable Hood



Not gonna lie -- I don't own many hoodies. Some of my jackets have hoods, but for the most part, I steer clear for various reasons.

However, Gizmodo has a hoodie that I'm pretty interested in, at least for traveling purposes anyway. It brings to mind specifically a flight from Vegas -->Winston in which the lady next to me did a good job of, ahem, filling her seat and therefore ruining my sleeping ability. (She also ate Cheesy Poofs at 4:30 in the morning, which was not "awesome.")
The jacket, confusingly dubbed "Never Stop a Rolling Stone" by designer Rahel Ritchie features a fully inflatable hood that can be manually adjusted via a mouthpiece tucked away in the fabric. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this concept is available for sale. However, the snowboarding experts at Burton have have had a similar product on the market for a while now. The latter is actually a hoodie and it doesn't feature a fully inflatable hood—but it does have a built in eye mask and earplugs for lullaby listening.
Now, the downside is, well, that you have to wear a hood. Outside of that, though, this is pretty perfect for traveling purposes.

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