Here’s one of those ‘lifeboat’ questions: you’re on a snowy mountain, the rescue ‘copter is 8 eight hours away and your iPod runs out of juice. Do you a: listen to the whistling wind and stay toasty warm inside a heated jacket or b: hotwire your jacket to power your ‘pod? That may be the situation if you purchase the Refugium Jacket from Mountain Hardwear.
The $375 jacket claims to keep you toasty warm for 8.6 hours using Ardica’s 10-watt power source located in the coat’s shell near a person’s shoulder blades. The heat can be adjusted (there are three settings) by pressing a tab near the chest.
But for CoM readers, here’s the real feature: a USB adapter can re-route the energy used to heat the jacket to an iPod. Of course, it’ll cost you $50 extra to contemplate whether listening to your favorite tune really is to-die.
