Smart Ring Ring - Environmental management technique using gestures

This year there are more projects whose aim - the creation of a ring or perstsnya to manipulate environmental technology. Something like the One Ring, giving the owner the ability to manage their entire technology wave of the hand.

Not so long ago, in a blog Medgadgets publish news about smart ring Moto. In this post we are talking about a similar project, which received a simple name «Ring». The idea of ​​a company 16Lab. A prototype of the ring is ready, and has been featured on tehnovystavke CEATEC 2014 Tokyo.



The device itself is more like a ring than in the ring. Housing - Titanium, with the electronics inside. The electronic system includes an accelerometer, compass and wireless module (Bluetooth 4.0), plus a battery capacity of only 10 mAh. The developers claim that the final version devaysa can work 20 hours in stand-alone mode. The ring is also fitted with the touch pad and the vibration is.

As a platform chip used Sensor Network Module from Alps Electric. This square chip with a side of 6 mm.



To activate the rings need to touch the touch pad, and then work vibration, warning of the ring ready to work. Further, the user can control any device connected to the Ring - whether TV Bluetooth or desktop PC. Gestures can be very different, each gesture can be tied to a specific action, and devices.

The accuracy of the accelerometer is quite large - for example, if you take a pen in your hand and open the page in the document on your PC, all written by hand in the air displays on the PC screen. The size of the letters may be similar to the size of letters when writing a pen on a piece of paper.

Ring can be used as means of payment, it can be used to take payment over Bluetooth, while the ring holder notifies vibration.

Price Ring nelya called low. In the sale it will go in the second quarter of 2015, at a price of 149 US dollars.

Source: habrahabr.ru/company/medgadgets/blog/239997/