[simias]

What a waste. Why not just have a standard latch design on your clothes and let the user connect and disconnect their devices? It would allow for upgrade without having to discard everything.

Do you really want to buy a new jacket every time you upgrade your touch gizmo or vice-versa? Do you want vendor-locked clothes? It's very user-hostile IMO.

[rtkwe]

That's basically where this goes if I'm understanding your right, but this is the first one and they're the only one making it so there's no standard. There's two totally separate items here. There's the cloth with the woven in conductive fibers and the Bluetooth dongle that takes that touch data and translates it into commands by extracting gestures. If this takes off in a big way and more companies get into it you'll probably see a standard develop around the attachment between the woven sensor and the dongle to communicate to your phone.