Something for the Weekend, Sir? My ring smarts.
This is only to be expected, having exposed my ring for long periods to the burning sun.
More fool me, you’d think, but you’d be wrong. Ensuring my ring is open to the elements is good for my health and well-being. And slipping it onto my finger is surprisingly comfortable.
Hang on, what I meant to say was that my ring is smart. It is a clever ring. Manipulated appropriately, it ought to give me endless pleasure … producing vitamin D.
You may remember that I was won over to the cause of smart wearables last year, so I feel better disposed towards the various new devices currently hitting the crowd-funding sites.
Don’t knock my ring.
Previously, the Wearable Technology Show in London has been a rich source of daft stories about pointless gadgets that purport to solve problems from which nobody suffers. These have ranged from clunky, wire-strewn ‘performance’ clothing to sleep monitoring devices that would track your body movements in bed just as long as you kept very still.
It was all futuristic nonsense. Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, as Lindsay Buckingham might say. Yesterday’s gone. Oh, and put my ring on your finger (which might have been Stevie Nicks – unless that was just rumours).
WTS 2017, held earlier this week, was quite a different beast. It was as most of the silliness had been squeezed out, to be replaced by a new wave of rationality. Product development of wearables for health, fitness and industrial applications is beginning to mature.
Take, for example, Illuminated Apparel’s interactive glow t-shirt.
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Source: The Register