Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Dumbest Wearables Ever”.
Google glass might be the first thing, many of us think of when someone says stupid, pointless, wearable device hear that almost every day, but surprisingly enough, it was far from the most ridiculous thing that corporate america thought we should strap onto our bodies. For example, take a look at this thing: it’s called the poma made by a company called xybernaut. That amazingly, was not in the business of making late 90s saturday morning cartoons the poma came out back in 2002 and was actually a full-fledged computer. That made you look like you: just walked off the set of star trek. It ran on windows ce.
You know that obscure version of windows for embedded systems and rocked a meager 128 megahertz cpu with 32 megs of memory – that’s incredibly underpowered by today’s standards, but back then yeah yeah. It was still pretty bad for 2002.. The one-eyed display had an 800×600 resolution with the idea being to replicate a 13-inch monitor, but it turns out completely obscuring one of your eyes. Isn’T such a good idea, people reportedly kept running into walls while trying to use it.
Your choices of input were either an odd looking optical mouse. You could use to click individual letters on an on-screen keyboard or an actual physical keyboard. You could strap to your forearm like the greatest hacker that ever lived. Needless to say, with a 1500 price tag and poor battery life, it didn’t sell well even with xybernaut trying to make the poma seem like the pinnacle of cool, almost got there next up beauty and the geek not to be confused with the reality show.
This was a concept we saw back in 2012 and looked like something right out of a really lame version of cyberpunk 2077. Instead of taking a keyboard and mouse with you, why not just put it in your pants beauty and the geek was a pair of black jeans with orange stitching that could have been reasonably fashionable, but literally had a working keyboard sewed in right over your junk aside From the downside that typing in public could now be misconstrued as something rather indecent. The concept tried to take convenience to the max by also building in speakers and a wireless mouse that hung from a strap.
I also don’t really know how you’re supposed to wash these things, so it’s not surprising that these high-tech trousers never made it past the concept stage. The next thing we’re going to tell you about actually did make it to market and was a heck of a lot more practical than the wearable pc or the keyboard pants, but unfortunately it sucked big time we’ll give you the details right after we thank this video’s Sponsor freshbooks the invoicing and accounting solution, that’s built for owners and their clients. Freshbooks users save a ton of time and money.
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This thing is called the ring by log bar and it was supposed to be a hyper minimalist and ultra convenient way to interact with your tech, you’d slip it on your finger and then complete tasks like sending texts. Turning on the lights and changing channels. On your tv, all by drawing simple gestures in mid-air, so many people were captivated by the idea of waving your fingers in the air like a that. It raised over a million bucks on kickstarter, but the ring broke the cardinal rule of technology. It didn’t work when a user got in touch with ring, support and told them.
The gestures only worked around five percent of the time. He was apparently told that yeah that sounded about right yikes. It also didn’t help that the ring was so large that it looked like. You were wearing a piece of metallic calamari on your finger and, given that it sold for a not nice price of 269 dollars, it was quickly panned as one of the worst wearables in history. I just hope, no poor soul out there got this gifted to them.
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