Create an intelligent jacket that adapts to cold and heat

Mercury is connected to Alexa to check the outside temperature

    Now that the Siberian polar wave is advancing in the Old Continent and threatens to leave Spain at six degrees below zero, technology is allied with citizens to overcome the last throes of winter. Ministry of Supply, a clothing firm based in Boston (United States), has manufactured a jacket that adapts to the temperature and protects its users.

Mercury is connected to the internet, controlled by an application, synchronized with Alexa, Amazon's intelligent assistant, and customizes its temperature through automatic learning.

The American jacket uses an accelerometer and temperature sensors to change the amount of heat it pumps according to the temperature of its surroundings in combination with user activity levels.

       The company, which has started, a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter where you can contribute from $ 295 to more than $ 2,500. "At the core of Mercury there are three carbon fiber heating elements that heat all at once, strategically located to disappear in the jacket With only 100 g, flexible and 1 mm thick, you will hardly notice the heaters, these heaters can deliver 10 watts of heating power almost instantaneously, reaching up to 57 ° C, "explains Ministry of Supply.

With an "Alexa turn on my jacket", Alexa gives the order to the Mercury heaters to start warming up the user. In addition, according to the company explains, just save the smartphone in your pocket you can charge the battery.