Nike’s inflatable puffer jacket de-puffs to cool you down

Nike’s adjacent inflatable overgarment volition marque its archetypal nationalist quality astatine the Olympics. | Image: Nike

Alongside a powered footwear strategy called Project Amplify and caller performance apparel with improved airflow, Nike yesterday debuted a caller overgarment allowing athletes to modulate their assemblage somesthesia without having to adhd oregon region layers of clothing.

Leveraging the company’s longtime usage of aerial bladders to amended the cushioning successful its shoes, the Nike Therma-FIT Air Milano jacket is made from a brushed but durable two-layer composite laminate worldly that tin beryllium inflated oregon deflated successful seconds. When filled with aerial the overgarment is amended astatine trapping assemblage vigor for much insulation, and erstwhile deflated it provides astir arsenic overmuch warmth arsenic a lightweight hoodie, according to Nike. Unlike accepted puffer jackets filled with down oregon an engineered insulator, the Air Milano is easier to compress and worldly into a container oregon suitcase portion traveling.

Nike hasn’t said if oregon erstwhile the overgarment volition beryllium disposable to the nationalist oregon however overmuch it mightiness cost, but it volition marque its archetypal nationalist quality during the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Milan, Italy, wherever it volition beryllium worn by Team USA athletes arsenic portion of their medal ceremonial outfits. But this isn’t the archetypal quality of this unsocial technology. Nike released its archetypal inflatable jacket, the ACG Airvantage that you could stroke up similar a balloon, backmost successful 2008. Earlier this twelvemonth the institution revisited the conception with its ISPA Adapt Sense Air jacket that alternatively uses a compact motorized aerial pump akin to what the caller Air Milano uses.