The Future of Smart Fabrics at CES

It arrived, it got set up badly, it got set up properly, and then it got used for months.

Price is the least interesting question right up until it is the only question. Something can be worth every penny and still be the wrong purchase, if the cheaper thing would have done.

Filed under Smart Apparel, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.

What follows is the good, the bad, and the part where support asked us to buy a new router.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

Writes the wearables & style beat for Drafted Tech. Everything filed here was paid for at retail, which is the whole reason this site exists.

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    Devon R.

    Dec 30, 2025 06:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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    kaz

    Dec 30, 2025 22:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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    sam_on_the_couch

    Dec 31, 2025 18:00

    Returned mine inside the window. Nothing wrong with it, it just was not worth what they are asking.

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