LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Mobile-phone maker Motorola Inc. signed an agreement with sunglasses company Oakley Inc. to build “wearable wireless communications devices” using Bluetooth technology. The companies said they would release details and designs on the devices sometime in the middle of the year.
“By teaming with Motorola, we’re dramatically expanding the possibilities for our new electronics category,” said Cos Lykos, Oakley’s vice president of business development. “Oakley’s engineering team now has an expanded technology arsenal to develop new and innovative electronic products.”
Motorola has previously signed agreements with the likes of snowboarding company Burton and iPod designer Apple Corp.
