It wouldn’t be a Tesseract Ventures original if it lacked hard-wired flair, John Boucard said, showing off the metro’s leading robotics startup’s newest creation — interactive tees.
“What we’ve developed is some embedded intelligence inside the textiles,” Boucard, founder and CEO, said in a recently released video showing four T-shirt styles — which represent the company’s four robotics studios — in action.
“I can take my phone and touch the shirt and activate a video,” Boucard continued, showing ways in which the shirts complete simple functions, such as bringing up the company’s website or immediately launching a phone call to the startup’s main office.
In the demo video, the founder scans a portion of the “Experiential Entertainment” T-shirt, bringing up a YouTube video associated with a line of children’s…