Top 10 Weird Wearable Gadgets You Actually Want
The wearable gadgets is a display of your taste, your style and even your personality.
"Spider Dress" may be too cool to have one, but you actually want it, and you probably want these top 10 weird wearable gadgets too.
10. Skully Helmet
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Take a motorcycle helmet, pack in all of the features and functionality of a high-end in-car electronics system and you have the Skully Helmet.
This impressive "smart motorcycle helmet" hit its Indiegogo funding goal of $250,000 in just eight minutes, "seemingly breaking the crowdfunding site's record for the fastest-funded project ever," according to WearableWorldNews.com.
You get a heads-up display that shows navigation routes and rear-view camera footage, and you can hear spoken directions and other audio cues. It also looks pretty damn gnarly. You can secure yours via preorder for $1,399.
9. Ping
Ping is a "social networking garment" that connects to your Facebook account and lets you send status updates with gestures.
You get alerts via vibrations and "pings," or taps, on the shoulder. The garment is just a concept at this point, and it's unclear whether or not it will ever become publicly available, but the woman in the product shots sure does seem to really like Ping — and gaudy eye shadow.
8. Motorola Digital Tattoo
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Speaking of tattoos, VivaLnk and Google 's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group created a digital tattoo that can be used to unlock your Moto X smartphone. The tattoo is roughly the size of a nickel, and it sticks to your skin with water-resistant adhesive for as long as five days.
To unlock your phone, you just tap it against the tattoo. Packs of 10 tattoos cost $9.99, which breaks down to $10 for 50 days of continuous use, or about $75 a year to unlock your phone with tattoo. Unfortunately, it's only available for the Moto X, but the company says it wants to expand to other phones in the near future.
7. Tweeting Bra
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Bra of Victoria's Secret is gorgeous, but this one is freaking awesome. It's exactly what you'd expect: A brassiere that sends Twitter messages. Well, only one Twitter message, and you can't customize the tweets it posts. But, still — it's a bra that tweets!
The Tweeting Bra is really just a concept — or maybe a marketing gimmick — designed to raise awareness about breast cancer prevention. Whenever the wearer unhooks the bra, it connects to a smartphone and sends a tweet that says something like, "Maria has just unhooked her bra! When you do the same, don't forget about your self exam."
6. Blacksocks Smarter Socks Plus+
There's no shortage of wearable devices designed to measure your health and wellness, but what about your socks' well-being?
Blacksocks recognized this urgent need and created the Smarter Socks Plus+, which work along with a "sock sorter" and your iPhone to help you ensure that each sock remains with its appropriate partner. Each individual Plus+ sock has an RFID chip for identification.
The Blacksocks app lets you know when you need to buy new socks. They are "probably the smartest socks in the world," according to the company. Really, why would you even consider less intelligent socks? Ten pairs of sock, with the sorter, cost $189.
5. Aurora Dream Inducing Headband
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The Aurora dream-inducing headband tracks brainwaves and body movements while you sleep to detect when you are dreaming. It plays subtle audio and visual cues to help you recognize that you're in a dream so you can attempt to control and enjoy it.
It connects to a smartphone app to track dream-related metrics. It can also serve as an alarm clock that wakes you up when you've had enough sleep and will be most refreshed, according to the manufacturer. The Aurora headband is available for preorder for $199, and it's expected to ship this fall.
4. Nod Ring
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Nod is a ring that works as a remote control for a variety of different display devices, including iOS or Android gadgets, computers running Mac OS X or Windows and Nest thermostats.
You can use Nod to surf the Web; play games; click through slides in a presentation; type commands; look through digital photo albums; adjust smart thermostats, lighting and other connected home features, and much more, all without ever touching another device. N
od says its ring "works with an ever-expanding number of smart devices and objects," so its functionality should only increase. Nod is available for preorder for $149, and it's expected to ship this fall.
3. Nimble
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Intugine's Nimble is very similar to the Nod ring in that it lets you control a variety of electronic devices with hand-based gestures. Its design, however, is different; it's barely noticeable, and you wear one tiny ring on your index finger and one on your thumb.
Intugine says it product is unique because "up to eight players at a time can use Nimble, compared to the one-user option" of competitors like Nod. It's also $50 cheaper, though it's not yet available for preorder unless you're based in India. The company expects to start shipping the Nimble rings later this year.
2. Zepp Golf Gloves
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The Zepp Sensor and Zepp Gloves aim to make you a better golfer by providing detailed analysis of your swing, along with other metrics. The sensor captures, measures and analyzes your swing in three dimensions and records 1,000 data points per second.
The companion iOS and Android mobile apps let you see visualizations of your swing, and it collects and plots data on swing speed, swing plane, tempo, backswing position and hip rotation. The set costs $149.99, and it comes with a 30-day guarantee: You'll improve your golf game or your money will be refunded.
1. Necomimi
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Brace yourself, this one is a doozy.
Necomimi is a set of feline-like ears that strap on to your head, supposedly measure brainwaves and then move and flick based on how you're feeling at a given moment. There's not much more to say, other than you can purchase your set for $69.99 on Amazon and then customize your cat ears with a bunch of different colors for $14.99 a pair.
Oh, and if you're so inclined, you can swap out a single ear so that your pair doesn't match and you look even crazier. Yeah.
(source:cio.com)
