ABSTRACT Mobile computing is beginning to break the chains that tie us to our desks, but many of today's mobile devices can still be a bit awkward to carry around. In the next age of computing, there will be an explosion of computer parts across our bodies, rather than across our desktops. Basically, jewellery adorns the body, and has very little practical purpose. However, researchers are looking to change the way we think about the beads and bobbles we wear. The combination of microcomputer devices and increasing computer power has allowed several companies to begin producing fashion jewellery with embedded intelligence i.e., Digital jewellery. Digital jewellery can best be defined as wireless, wearable computers that allow you to communicate by ways of e-mail, voicemail, and voice communication. This paper enlightens on how various computerized jewellery (like ear-rings, necklace, ring, bracelet, etc.,) will work with mobile embedded intelligence. It seems that everything we access today is under lock and key. Even the devices we use are protected by passwords. It can be frustrating trying to keep with all of the passwords and keys needed to access any door or computer 1
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ABSTRACT
Mobile computing is beginning to break the chains that tie us to our desks, but
many of today's mobile devices can still be a bit awkward to carry around. In the next age
of computing, there will be an explosion of computer parts across our bodies, rather than
across our desktops.
Basically, jewellery adorns the body, and has very little practical purpose.
However, researchers are looking to change the way we think about the beads and
bobbles we wear. The combination of microcomputer devices and increasing computer
power has allowed several companies to begin producing fashion jewellery with
embedded intelligence i.e., Digital jewellery. Digital jewellery can best be defined as
wireless, wearable computers that allow you to communicate by ways of e-mail,
voicemail, and voice communication. This paper enlightens on how various computerized
jewellery (like ear-rings, necklace, ring, bracelet, etc.,) will work with mobile embedded
intelligence.
It seems that everything we access today is under lock and key. Even the devices
we use are protected by passwords. It can be frustrating trying to keep with all of the
passwords and keys needed to access any door or computer program. This paper
discusses about a new Java-based, computerized ring that will automatically unlock doors
and log on to computers.
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 4
2. WHAT IS DIGITAL JEWELLERY? 52.1 Historical context 52.2. Digital jewellery and its components 62.3. Technical specifications of digital jewellery 82.4. Display technologies 8
3. ELECTROMAGNETIC BEADS 10
4. PROTOTYPES OF DIGITAL JEWELLERY 114.1 HIOX Necklace 114.2 HIOX Ring 114.3 IBM’s Bracelet Display 12
5. JAVA RING 135.1 Introduction 135.2 Features 135.3 Working 14
6. CURRENT AND ONGOING ACHIEVEMENTS 166.1 CharmBadge 166.2 Intelligent Spectacles 166.3 Smart Wristwatch 176.4 Magic Decoder Ring 176.5 Charmed Communicator Eyepiece 186.6 Mouse-Ring 18
7. CONCLUSION 20
8. REFERENCES 21
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1. INTRODUCTION
Recent technological advancements have resulted in a climate where technology is
too intrusive the increased miniaturisation and mobility of digital technologies has led to
a number of proposals for digital objects which use jewellery as a way to locate
communication and information devices on the body. However, these developments are
emerging from outside the field of contemporary jewellery. Consequently digital
jewellery is significantly under-explored within contemporary jewellery practice and the
emerging developments from other fields present a narrow interpretation of both
jewellery and digital technologies. In terms of aesthetics there is a distinct naivety
regarding the form, material, connection with the body and scope of interaction of a
digital jewellery object. Moreover there is a paucity of approaches that consider
emotional and intimate attachments people form with and around objects. These
limitations are evident in both physical and conceptual constraints. Beyond this, the
qualities that we have come to associate with the digital are born from a predominantly
consumer electronics field and are both narrow and hindering if we wish to consider
digital technologies having wider, more emotional scope in our lives. Therefore an
exploration of digital jewellery that addresses these issues and seeks to escape the
limiting assumptions we have of the digital is needed.
The latest computer craze has been to be able to wear wireless computers. The
Computer Fashion Wave, "Digital Jewellery" looks to be the next sizzling fashion trend
of the technological wave. The combination of shrinking computer devices and
increasing computer power has allowed several companies to begin producing fashion
jewellery with embedded intelligence. Today’s, manufacturers place millions of
transistors on a microchip, which can be used to make small devices that store tons of
digital data.. The whole concept behind this is to be able to communicate to others by
means of wireless appliances. The other key factor of this concept market is to stay
fashionable at the same time. Researchers have already created an array of digital-
jewellery prototypes.
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2. WHAT IS DIGITAL JEWELLERY?
Digital jewellery is the fashion jewellery with embedded intelligence. “Digital
jewellery” can help you solve problems like forgotten passwords and security badges.
“Digital jewellery” is a nascent catchphrase for wearable ID devices that contain personal
information like passwords, identification, and account information. They have the
potential to be all-in-one replacements for your driver’s license, key chain, business
cards, credit cards, health insurance card, corporate security badge, and loose cash. They
can also solve a common dilemma of today’s wired world – the forgotten password.
Digital jewellery can come in other forms as well. Innovators at IBM and the MIT
Media Laboratory have developed “personal area networks” (PANs) that transfer simple
information via human touch, by “capacitively coupling picoamp currents through the
body.” A low-level electric current carries the information from transmitter to receiver,
passing simple identifying information like name, title, and phone number. As digital
jewellery matures, this kind of function is a natural inclusion to the feature set. Other
possible inclusions are memory aids, PDA functions, and environmental augmentation.
2.1. OVERVIEW
The phenomenon of the wearable computer has arisen from the desire to create a
mobile, personal computer system. The makers of wearables aim to house the personal
computer on the body maintaining the convention of screen, keyboard and mouse.
Wearables have been worn (by their originators) despite their bulky size and weight, and
it is readily apparent that considerations of the aesthetic possibilities or the intimate
nature of the relationship between the body and the object remains under-explored.
Technological innovation has to date been the dominant concern for wearables research.
Thad Starner (2001) outlined the challenges facing the development of wearables as
power use, heat dissipation, networking, interface design and privacy; with no mention of