A short history of how we’ve been building the future

From the invisibility cloaks and Apocalypse Jackets of today, to the Relaxation Hoodies that started our journey, this is the story of where we’ve been.

  • 2023. The Aerogel Jacket

    This entire jacket is built from two materials that count ‘travelling through space’ as their day job. Aerogel, and space parachutes.

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  • 2023. DNA

    Sheep have been cloned. The human genome has been mapped. And now we're using DNA to make clothing.

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  • 2022. Vollebak Island

    Vollebak Island is the start of a series of extraordinary projects looking at how we’ll live over the next century in a world of climate change, space travel, and resource scarcity.

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  • 2022. The Titan Puffer.

    Built with technology that’s already landing probes on other planets, our Titan range is tested down to -100°C in a liquid nitrogen chamber.

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  • 2022. Thermal Camouflage Jacket

    The world’s first Thermal Camouflage Jacket is a computer-programmable jacket that brings us one step closer to an invisibility cloak.

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  • 2022. The Vollebak Wardrobe

    We dropped the first Vollebak wardrobe in the middle of the desert in New Mexico filled with tens of thousands of dollars of free Vollebak gear.

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  • 2022. A zombie proof Apocalypse Jacket

    Built from a material originally invented by a Dr Marvel for NASA’s Apollo program, the Apocalypse Jacket can withstand black lava, flash fires, and chemical erosion.

  • 2021. Workwear for Mars

    Our Mars gear comes with its own 3D printed Vomit Pocket for space adaptation syndrome (puking in space) and anti-gravity pockets for shifting gravity fields.

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  • 2021. The first t shirt built with black algae

    We’re on a search for the new black. Our aim is to reinvent the way in which the colour itself is made. And it all started with a t shirt made with black algae.

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  • 2021. The Solar Charged Puffer

    After our Solar Charged Jacket was named as one of TIME magazine's Best Inventions back in 2017, we started working on something even more ambitious – the Solar Charged Puffer. It took over 3 years.

  • 2020. The most remote store on Earth

    The Tjukayirla Roadhouse is the most remote store on Earth. Run by Carol and Ross and their dog Bronson, it’s 264km from the nearest neighbour and sits in the middle of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia. So we made them our first stockist.

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  • 2020. Our 100 Year Hoodie is reborn

    We spent two years in R&D building Version 3 of our 100 Year Hoodie from scratch to combat every element on Earth. It now repels rain, wind, snow and fire.

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  • 2020. The Full Metal Jacket wins TIME Best Inventions

    Hailed by WIRED as “the virus killing coat of the future,” our Full Metal Jacket is built with over 11 kilometres of copper.

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  • 2020. A sweater built from garbage

    Built from mashed up bulletproof vests and firefighter suits that were heading to the dump, the Garbage Sweater starts to tackle the problem of what you do with the toughest materials in the trash.

  • 2019. Our first Plant and Algae T Shirt turned into worm food

    Grown in forests and bioreactors, our Plant and Algae T Shirt was made entirely out of plants and algae, and was designed to turn into worm food at the end of its life.

  • 2019. Deep Sleep Cocoon

    Named as WIRED Gear of the Year, our Deep Sleep Cocoon was designed to help you get some sleep on the first missions to Mars.

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  • 2019. SpaceX poster

    With our first jacket ready for space, we figured there was someone we had to tell. Helpfully there’s a billboard site right outside SpaceX HQ.

  • 2018. The world’s first Graphene Jacket

    Part jacket, part science experiment, the Graphene Jacket was an experimental prototype with one side coated in graphene, and the other side not. Fast Company described it as “more akin to a hackathon than a fashion design process.”

  • 2017. The Solar Charged Jacket is named as one of TIME Best Inventions

    In 2017 we invented the Solar Charged Jacket – a lightweight running jacket that could store and re-emit sunlight. It was named as one of TIME magazine's Best Inventions and as Sports Gear of the Year by WIRED.

  • 2016. Our first break comes on The Tonight Show

    Jon Glaser educates Jimmy Fallon on the art of wearing our Relaxation Hoodie on The Tonight Show.

  • 2016. We launch our first ever product, the Relaxation Hoodie

    The Relaxation Hoodie was like a portable isolation tank, designed to help you chill out anywhere.