Posts Tagged ‘solar wearables’

ZegnaSport Solar Jacket

zegna-solar-jacket1.jpgAs promised in autumn, the Spring/Summer 2008 ZegnaSport menswear collection dawns a luxury solar jacket. One of the first to market in sunlight harnessing textile inventions, Mens Vouge calls the new ZegnaSport solar jacket:

A marvel of eco-friendly efficiency, it resists the elements you can do without—like wind and rain, –—and uses the sun to power the digital devices you can’t be parted from. Solar panels mounted on the jacket’s neoprene collar soak up rays and then convert the light into energy….               

This is not breaking news in the solar-textile field, because  in 2005 Konarka solar products partnered

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