The next mobile upgrade you make may not be a phone at all. It could very well be jewellery. A company called Ringbow has a product that is essentially a wearable navigation tool, making touchscreen use more flexible, innovative and intuitive. It essentially is a wearable mouse with an accelerometer component, but so much more than that. It means that to you'll be able to reduce the amount of screen space taken up by things like menus and nav bars and gives another element of manipulation for interface designers of everything from OS systems and applications to game controls and media players.
While we're not holding our breath that this will be on shelves any time soon, it's an interesting approach. It will ultimately depend on whether Ringbow puts them out there and hopes software developers build for the device or go the other way around and partners with another development company.
They might not be the height of fashion from the get go but there's a certain sci-fi quality to them that's appealing, and while the mouse at the top gives them an engagement ring-like look we're betting the second or third generation models will be a lot more low profile. After all, no-one really wants to look like they're betrothed to a cyborg unless it's Alice from Transformers 2 (or Rachael from Blade Runner, if you like the classics).
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