Acronym's PMP-loving jacket keeps your earbuds safe, murders your bank account
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Oct 2nd 2009 3:13PM
posted Oct 2nd 2009 3:13PM
Sure, the Acronym GT-J14 won't even charge your iPhone, but at first glance we loved the idea: take a stylish GORE-TEX jacket and throw in a couple slick features aimed at the eager urban technophile, including a so-called Gravity Pocket (accessible by a zipper on your forearm, contents can be dropped directly into your hand using a draw string -- demonstrated about 2:25 into the video after the break) and our personal favorite, a magnet that holds your headphones in place while you take that important phone call. We were feeling pretty good about this one, that is, until we finally tracked it down: azitastore.com lists it for €735 (yes, that's around $1,068). This is clearly only for those of you who put the word "disposable" in "income." Looks like we're going to have to find another way to keep our Lady Gaga headphones safe and secure, after all...
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That'll go great with my Gortex Apple tablet manpurse. What's a $1000 or so bucks when you're walking around in style far above the lowly netbook crowd.
I hear ya man, and with iPhone OS, the competition will burn. \s
Oh, damn, they fixed it XP
I love that they delete the comments of the people that catch the mistakes...
This is shit for that gullible apple crowd.
oh wow, that's pretty expensive
I was going to order one, until I realized they didn't have matching pants and cap. Oh well...
Hmm, $1000 on a neat, if novel, concept. Or, I could just hot glue a magnet on to my existing $15 Members Only jacket. Because I'm just that rad.
And just like that..
I know what i'm doing this weekend!!
haha
me too! gonna rip some magnets outa them old toys
@darkstar
The magnets from old HDD's are awesome
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
Holy guacamole !
Have you seen the model's face ! He looks like a happy camper alright !
By the looks on his face, either he's saying "buy it or I'll break your neck" or "I hate this jacket and I don't like to be photographed" !
Anyway, useless gadget !
Know what else keeps the earbuds safe? A pocket.
I was going to answer "condom".
Safer than a tubesock.
Try the SEV jacket from www.sev.com. Has all the features and then some. Lots and lots of pockets.
azitastore.com lists it for €735,000 (yes, that's around $1,068).
Caught!
They deleted all the other comments on it, tsk.
sheesh! almost a weeks pay for this thing?
Sounds similar to my Spider jacket that i bought a few years back that had almost everything this one does minus the magnet, it even had silver stitched lining for keeping the heat in or something. It was around $750+
Why would you pay that much for a jacket? 0_o
It was recommended by a good friend for skiing (Jacket has a zipper at the waist to connect the matching Pants) since we were going up into the Alps for Vacation, (thanks the USAF)
Thats called a snowskirt.
That is www.scottevest.com
Rodger
Who in their right mind hangs headphone cables outside their coat ? mind stay inside my outer layer and my mp3 player stays in my pocket then when i stop listening I can put my headphones in said pocket ! Isn't that what pockets are for ?
incodisposableme
Can I buy it now?
Stupidly excessive and not exclusive to Germany, by any means.
magnets cost less than 1 cent
excatly...you can get mini magnets use to hold up speaker grills and use it with any jacket, shirt etc..
"so we were just told to get down just now because it's disrespectful, this is a monument for... umm... for some of the Jewish people whom... umm we killed in the war"...
Real classy bro... nice. Any idea which war? No? Thought not.
He also mentions how his family is Jewish, or something, so he probably knows the history of WWII.
whoa, i can't believe this made it on engadget. I have that jacket, at least an older version from 2 years ago. The gravity pockets in the sleeves have been around by acronym for about 8 yrs or so. Yes, it's expensive, but extremely well made. Not a stitch out of place or oversewn. The crazy part is that these jackets sell out generally within days of release each Feb/Oct. Here's the original video when the line hit in the 1990s. He used to design for Burton before he went solo (that's the designer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJtyOvmYGQ
Dudeee! I've been looking for these jackets for the longest time! Where did you buy yours!? the S-J1A jacket is sold out like...every site I go to. And! I live in California so I don't think there are stores here to carry acronym.
There's quite a few stores that carry this line. recon in NY, darkside initiative in San Fran, hanon-shop.com, the-glade.com to name a few. I bought mine from AWOMB in japan. I found it on yahoo auctions japan from AWOMB. The offered me the floor model which had been tried on but was complete with tags for $200 less than a brand new never tried on jacket! not exactly a bargain, but the used acronym jackets sell on ebay for 700-800 in good condition. Think about it. buy it for $1000, wear for a couple years, re-sell for $800, and you only spent $200.
I'm into streetwear and fashion and the like. This is first and foremost a jacket noted for its design. Acronym is known for fashionable technical wear made in europe . Yes, they use very modern technical materials such as gore-tex lining, ballistic nylon and such, which does add to the price, but in no way is it worth over 1000 bucks. You are paying merely for the name and the design. The gimmick of using this for your gadgets is secondary although these products are very good at it.
This doesnt appeal to the typical tech nerd much in the same way that a Louis Vuitton peacoat wouldnt appeal to a captain of fishing vessel.
Dont like the price? Then dont buy it. Simple as that.
In my opinion, they still kill North Face and others when it comes to technical wear.
The commentator looks as if he was smokin' some tweez!
http://www.puristboutique.com/updates/?p=369 this store in the US seems to have it...no prices listed tho...probably cause of the price LOL. they do phone orders too....one of the jackets is 750 when i called and asked :X
3:32...were they singing rammstein there ?
badass
Wow, high end streetwear fashion on Engadget?! I'm actually impressed some people here know what Acronym is.
In other news, people with more money than sense are walking around cities all across the nation.
hands-on engadget!?
This guy with such big lips...
I don't think that he likes girls...
I love my Scottevest fleece 5.0! I just ordered a bunch more of their stuff.