in/am/auf: google ring > proportions

Real size draft about how small the ring could be using a small display and a smd chip.

in/am/auf: google ring > technology

For the google ring I wan't to use this OLED (organic light emitting-diode) made by Osram. This is a schema which components would be needed to display the 8 digits long google hit counter. If the ring is stored in its casket over night the serial connections RX and TX get connected to a processing sketch. The ring is updated.


Question: Is it possible to plug off the serial connection and plug it on again later without having to reset the microcontroller?

in/am/auf: what if...

...someone likes the ideas and wants to sell them commercial?


> Do I wan't this?
> How could I present the "products" so they are not missunderstood? Cp. Sweet Dreams Security "R. Bunnit , Peter Pin and Didoo".



> Is the object a solution for the problem? Cp. this project about Nike's sweatshops by Jule Jenckel.

in/am/am: google ring > technology

Possibility 1:
Ring with lcd or led technologie. The communication could be working like Michael Schmitz' "I Love Button"





But the problem is that there are no small enough lcd or leds. The smallest 7 segment led is about 7,5 x 5 x 14 mm.



Or the ring could be self adjusted like a bike lock.

in/am/am: updating status symbols

My previous idea of a google watch brings me to a larger topic: updated (wearable) status symbols. So I think of other objects that are communicating, which skills we have.

The cosmopolitan watch
As globalisation becomes true, it is important to be a cosmopolitain. This skill can be measured by the number of different countries you have visited or how often you are travelling. It is also kind of a new status symbol, so it should be intergrated in an old one. I think about a watch with a small counter similar to the date counter. When you have to change the time of the watch (because you arrived in another time zone) the counter increases by one.
(Alternative: A suitcase with a lcd instead of the stickers, which show where it has been?)

in/am/am: selfdefined appearance

Clothes sometimes vary between shame and sex appeal. Caused to some environmental reason it may not be possible for a person to appear the way he/she wants. So he/she could create a selfdefined appearance of himself, transmitted via bluetooth.


Which picture/icon would people choose, if this would be transmitted as their personal appearance?

in/am/auf: bluetooth burqa

Thinking of the rules in the Koran I wonder if it would be allowed for a women to extend her burqa with a bluetooth transmitter. This would send a portrait (of the person wearing the borqa) to other interested people, who could display it using their mobile phone.


I think about this idea in a context of extending people's real life identity/appearance with a digital layer. So this is the opposition of my first idea, where I tried to show people's virtual identity in form of physical ensigns.

in/am/am: google ring

Rings are usually known as status insignia. When information becomes more and more important, the quantity of mentions of a person's name in the www is an important index. So this ring showns the virtual power of a person by displaying the number of Google hits for his name.

in/am/auf: moving delay

After you moved from one place to another, your clothes still show this past movement in form of a snowdome like fluid, filled with floating particles embedded in your clothes.

in/am/auf: RFID business cards

Your own (rfid equipped) business cards serve as tracker, how many of your friends you meet during a day. Depending on how many of your friends are around, your clothes change, for example they become more casual. The time while you are together could also be measured.

in/am/auf: output knob

A knob turned by a hidden servo would be a very discreet output device. It's also very easy and a quite exact to read.

in/am/auf: slow down glasses

VISION/AWARENESS #2:
Inspired by the work "Shock Absorber" of David Rockeby, glasses which filter out movements would also be interesting. These should also be attached to some Wii or acceleration sensors, to understand, which movement is caused by turning your head and shouldn't be taken away.

in/am/auf: zoom glasses

VISION/AWARENESS #1:
The only thing, that cameras do better than eyes, is zooming. What about extending your sense with this feature? The zoom glasses would be connected to an acceleration sensor. If there is no movement the glasses zoom in very slow, otherwise they zoom out to have a wide angle.

in/am/auf: moshing peruke

FUN:
A peruke, that starts to mosh, if the surrounding sound gets loud enough.

in/am/auf: instant presenter

IDENTITY #2:
Due to more and more ad hock presentations, a jacket holding an internal graphic card would be usefull. It shows your latest presentation as soon as a projector is attached to the vga output.

in/am/auf: digital identity in a real world

IDENTITY #1:
More and more people do their job in offices. Therefore the references to the material we are working with, cannot be seen in our clothes anymore (like it is for the craftsmen). We are only computer guys. There is need for a new differetiation visualised in details of our clothes.