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Scottevest was founded in 2000, together with its wholly-owned subsidiary TEC, Technology Enabled Clothing, Inc., to design and manufacture a full line of clothing with a patented conduit system to manage and control wires for MP3 players, iPods, cellphones and wearable computers, with many specialized pockets for the devices of a mobile lifestyle. The company, also called Scottevest or SeV, is headquartered in Ketchum, Idaho, and its founder is Scott Jordan.
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SCOTTEVEST, INC. was created in 2000, together with its wholly-owned subsidiary TEC-Technology Enabled Clothing, Inc. (TEC), to design and manufacture a full line of clothing with a patented conduit system (US Patent #RE40613) to manage and control wires associated with MP3 players, iPods, cellphones, wearable computers, etc., and also feature many specialized pockets and compartments to accommodate the electronic devices and wires common in today's mobile lifestyle. SCOTTEVEST is also commonly referred to as SCOTTEVEST/seV or SeV. SCOTTEVEST is headquartered in Ketchum, ID.
Origins and HistorySCOTTEVEST, Inc. was founded in 2000 by lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Scott Jordan in Chicago, IL. The company takes its name from its founder (Scott Jordan) together with its first product, known as the eVest. SCOTTEVEST uses "SeV" as an abbreviation for "SCOTTEVEST". SCOTTEVEST's first product was a vest, marketed as the eVest 1.0, utilizing the "version" naming convention typical of technology products. It contained 15 pockets and was sold for $120. They currently make vests, jackets, fleece jackets, pullovers, hoodies and pants, all of which incorporate specialized pockets and wire management features. In 2008, SCOTTEVEST/seV released its fifth-generation product line with the Fleece 5.0 and Quantum Jacket. In 2002, President Bush was rumored to have seen a Secret Service agent's SCOTTEVEST and requested his own with the Presidential Seal. HeadquartersIn 2003, SCOTTEVEST moved its headquarters from Chicago, IL to Ketchum, ID. SCOTTEVEST is expected to open its first retail location in Ketchum, ID in May/june 2009.
Several members of the SCOTTEVEST Management Team: Hap Klopp - Chairman of the Advisory Board, Co-Founder of The North Face Steve Wozniak - Advisory Board Member, Co-Founder of Apple, Inc. David Farber - Advisory Board Member, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University & Former Chief Technologist at the FCC
As of April 2009 SCOTTEVEST's apparel line includes 21 items marketed to men and women. Their first product was the eVest 1.0, which has evolved into the currently available SeV Travel Vest. Patent Scott Jordan on behalf of SCOTTEVEST was awarded a patent (#06826782) in 2004 for their Personal Area Network. In 2009, this patent was re-issued as RE40613 and assigned to TEC-Technology Enabled Clothing. SCOTTEVEST's wholly-owned subsidiary Technology Enabled Clothing (TEC) offers for license this patented system to other clothing manufacturers.
SCOTTEVEST is also known for clothing that incorporates many pockets specifically designed for personal electronics, medications, sunglasses and other travel-related gear.The suggested use for these pockets is often indicated by an icon stitched onto the pocket. The product with the fewest pockets is the Performance Polo (1 pocket) and the most pockets is the Scott Jordan Signature System (52 pockets).
Most SCOTTEVEST products are marketed as having NoBulge(TM) and DeepPockets(TM) Design. These terms refer to SCOTTEVEST's engineering approach to clothing. NoBulge(TM) and DeepPockets(TM) Design denotes a pocket structure in garments which allow electronic devices to be carried without showing obvious bulges, by layering internal pockets such that they do not overlap and conforming them ergonomically to the wearer's body. Use of fabrics The fifth generation of SCOTTEVEST products (including the Fleece 5.0 & Quantum Jacket) incorporate a "clear touch" fabric to interior pockets. This fabric is transparent and allows touchscreen electronic devices such as iPhones to be viewed and operated through the fabric.
In 2002, SCOTTEVEST CEO Scott Jordan announced in the Wall Street Journal that SeV would "spend in the millions to defend my patent rights.". Since then, SeV has been the subject of some controversial litigation. IBMIn 2002 SCOTTEVEST was threatened with a lawsuit by IBM over the use of a cursive lower case "e" in SCOTTEVEST's logo (originally spelled "Scott eVest"). To avoid a lengthy and costly legal battle, SCOTTEVEST agreed to change the font of the "e" in their logo, but widely publicized the dispute as a David vs. Goliath fight. Scott USAIn 2004, Scott USA of Sun Valley, ID sued SCOTTEVEST for trademark violations, alleging that SCOTTEVEST violated company trademark by using the word "Scott" in its brand name. The case was settled, with SCOTTEVEST agreeing to concatenate and capitalize its brand name (SCOTTEVEST instead of Scott eVest). PR and MarketingSpokesmodelIn 2001, SCOTTEVEST hired Playboy Playmate Rebecca Scott as their spokesmodel. She made appearances at trade shows and appeared in advertising materials for the company. Social MediaSCOTTEVEST makes use of social media technology such as Twitter as a marketing strategy to address the estimated 35 percent of Internet users in the United States aged 18 or over now using an online social network. One of SCOTTEVEST's strategies is to embrace all forms of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Stickam. Scott Jordan is one of the few CEOs that records a for marketing daily video blog post, maintains a Facebook presence, Twitters regularly, produces a live daily video program called SCOTT TV and provides a live video feed in the SCOTTEVEST office/store. Woz-i-sodesIn October, 2008 Steve Wozniak and Scott Jordan filmed promotional video footage for SCOTTEVEST/seV, which was later edited into commercials that received poor press reviews and also formed the basis of a green screen contest in March and April, 2009. External links |
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Scottevest starts from a problem that did not exist a generation earlier: a person leaving home with a phone, a music player, earphones, chargers and other small electronics, and no orderly place to carry them. Its answer is clothing engineered as a carrying system, with many specialized pockets and compartments sized for devices, and a patented conduit system that routes and controls the wires between them. Wire management is the unglamorous core of the idea. Headphone and charging cables tangle, snag and pull earbuds out, and a conduit built into a jacket or vest lets wires run inside the garment from pocket to collar, so devices can be used while they stay carried and concealed.
The corporate structure reflects the concept. Founded in 2000 together with its wholly-owned subsidiary TEC, Technology Enabled Clothing, Inc., the company presents the clothing and the technology as one product, also referred to as Scottevest, SeV or SCOTTEVEST/seV. In 2001 founder Scott Jordan filed as inventor for a patent covering, among other things, an affordable alternative to a Personal Area Network, a network worn on the body connecting a person's devices. Framing a vest as a personal area network is a deliberate claim that clothing can do a job usually assigned to electronics accessories, bags and cases.
A many-pocket garment changes how travel and daily carry work. Weight is distributed around the body instead of concentrated in one bag, valuables sit in inside pockets rather than in luggage, and airport or street movement becomes hands-free. That is why technology clothing found its audience among travellers, journalists, photographers and technology workers first: people whose device count is high and whose work is mobile. The design questions are specialist ones, pocket placement against the body, access while seated, wire routes that survive washing and wear, and a silhouette that does not advertise the electronics inside.
Headquartered in Ketchum, Idaho, far from the usual fashion capitals, Scottevest is a reminder that functional clothing innovation often comes from use rather than from the runway. For researchers, the essential record is the 2000 founding, Scott Jordan as founder and inventor, the TEC subsidiary, the conduit patent cited in the definition, and the product premise that has defined the company since: a full line of clothing designed to carry and operate the personal electronic devices of a mobile lifestyle, inside the garment rather than in a bag.
Scottevest designs and manufactures clothing with a patented conduit system to manage wires for MP3 players, iPods, cellphones and wearable computers, and many specialized pockets and compartments for electronic devices. The clothing is also called Technology Enabled Clothing.
Scottevest was founded in 2000 by Scott Jordan and is headquartered in Ketchum, ID. In 2001 Scott Jordan filed, as inventor for Scottevest, for a patent covering an affordable alternative to a Personal Area Network.
Scottevest cites a patented conduit system, U.S. Patent number RE40613, to manage and control wires associated with MP3 players, iPods, cellphones and wearable computers, while devices are carried inside the clothing.