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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Perform With Your Technology: SCOTTEVEST Performance Polo and Pullover Reviewed!

Posted by Jon Westfall in "HARDWARE" @ 08:00 AM


Technology-Enabled?
SCOTTEVEST prides themselves on producing "Technology-Enabled Clothing" (heck, they even trademarked the phrase). Their products, if you aren't familiar with them, are designed to allow you to carefully stow your devices without looking like a geeky batman or über-nerd (unless you want that look...). Starting out with vests and outerwear, their focus over the last year has been on performance wear - products designed to be worn while engaging in athletics or exercise. Their Performance t-shirt, which I reviewed last summer, was a great aide to me while cutting the grass at my home - drawing moisture out and being ultra-light on my sweating body (it's visuals like "Jon's Sweating Body" that are better left un-augmented by photos, hence the use in this review of SCOTTEVEST's high quality images). This year SeV has offered the Performance Pullover 1/4 Zip and the Performance Polo up for review.


Figure 1: The x-ray view of the Performance Polo, showing the embedded pocket that is connected to the Personal Area Network (PAN).


Figure 2: The polo and pullover both contain earbud loops. Earbuds may be routed internally through the PAN to your device, carefully stowed in a pocket.

Both the Performance Polo and the Pullover 1/4 Zip offer SCOTTEVEST's signature PAN (Personal Area Network). This system of carefully placed openings allows you to route wires internally (e.g. between your body and the shirt) to your device(s). Most often this is used for headphones, however, with performance wear the possibilities are endless. Heartbeat monitors, GPS devices connected to tracking devices to chart progress, and other exercise gizmos can all be wired up. Removal of the shirt generally does not pull the wires out so you can hit the showers quickly and un-wire your shirt later.

In that last paragraph I avoided the word "hole" to describe the PAN openings because calling it a hole really sounds like they just cut a chunk out of the lining and left it at that. In reality, it took me around 5 minutes with the performance pullover to find the breast pocket "hole" - it was concealed nicely within the lining and just big enough to route a wire through. This attention to detail is what makes the PAN on the performance products useful beyond normal exercise wear.

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