Wearable Tech Discussed - Computerphile

Looks like a lugnut

How are does rings make? Can you make circular PCBs? Or are the just one piece bent around? But if that's the case, how do you even make a none flat PCB?

Feel your spouses heart through your ring, that would be hecka hard

Can tech like those rings detect neural signals in the fingers?

Thinking about it, is stress any different from excitement?

Bleep him stat this pulse rate is classic undersleep profile he's about to go full cringe seventeen dobloons me hearties

Mood ring

He's got HRV backwards. High HRV is low stress, body that's recovered and ready to go, because it's changing heart rate (varying) frequently and quickly and frictionlessly between sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest). A low HRV is a stressed, sick, unrecovered, not-ready body, because it's stuck on one (usually high) HR "fighting" for homeostasis.

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not very interesting topic and an even more hollow conversation.

I don't keep my phone in my pocket. It's on a clip on my belt because, having old eyes, I went for a large screen. But either way, many of the body sensors rely on seeing skin, to shine light on and measure the return. That's why watches and rings work well. Your phone is seldom in contact with the skin in such a reliable way. Yes, many people hold them a lot, but not constantly, or in the same grip, and the smart folks have them in protective cases anyway.

It seems like a solution in search of a problem. I was hoping to hear some interesting applications for it. I already know when I'm stressed, I don't need a machine to tell me (and potentially tell other people without my consent)

paying for overpriced tech, with planned obsolescence, that gathers all the data it can about you and your surroundings, which is then used to compel you into buying more overpriced stuff, which you don't even need. and you do this voluntarily. what a world we live in...

I feel like half way through, I felt like we were talking about the PAST. About SUPERSTITIONS. And by the end I realized I just got bullsh****d and my time was wasted. Please; don't.

I hate having to charge 10 or more rings every few days and maybe different intervals. The real hop in tech would be when the rings can get energy directly from your body enough to run the small tasks they might need to do.

"Yoo vill eat ze bugs and vear ze verables"

That video gave me about the same information like asking ChatGPT in one prompt.

"Accuracy of step count" !!!! I have a Samsung smart watch and some days I get out of bed, put on my watch, walk down stairs and it says I've done a 1000 steps.
Has anyone actually counted their steps and compared it to a watch? I doubt it. They're just a gimmick.
But it is accurate at telling the time.

The weirdest wearable I know of is the Acer Buddhist beads, but it seems to be selling well.

If only there were wearable mini microphone arrays

Yesterday I saw a great video by a woodwork guru explaining why it's a really bad idea to wear rings. It came with pictures from the time his ring got caught in a tool... It wasn't nice

If I ever get a watch that tells me to calm down when I'm laughing too hard or kanoodling you'd have to give me a free car to wear it for that level of intrusion.

Hospitals might buy it for patients I guess?

So in short, the rings are useless but they prime the cattle for RFID implants and more tracking and data harvesting just so they can be part of the ugg boot crowd.
This ring will go perfect with a pug.
Let the human batteries rigged into their apple headsets use this gimmick, ill pass..
I am still hoping that there will be enough influencers and tiktards to feed the matrix that a few of us will be able to just live our lives in the city of zion without them coming for us all..

How unintersting. Next!

I can imagine using it as a personal storage for your most precious digital files. Nothing huge but small files a few gb for health or contract information. Stuff like that. Maybe a tiny emergency light.

I'm really happy with my smartwatch but I only turn on the sensors when MTB'ing. I get 24 days between charges this way and I know my data footprint is minimal. It's a 3 year old Fenix 6 sapphire. 12 days between charges with everything on all the time. My only other 'wearable tech' is my phone and even that isn't on my person for the majority of the day. Good times. 👍😎

If it doesnt give me +1 to all stats, its not worth wearing IMO

A recent study (doi: 10.3390/s24020635) shows most of those consumer-grade health trackers (including Oura) are not very accurate when it comes to sleep tracking compared to research-grade stuff.

Sign Language to speech application.
Proximity unlock my bicycle/laptop/post box.
Encrypted password keeper tied to my biometrics?
Medical history like those medalert bracelets.

At what point did we start needing a device to tell us if we are stressed?

The stress response shortfall thing seems like it points to the models not being individualized to the user. This kind of thing seems like it won't be useful until it can retrain a generalized model for the given user.

Oh yeah these were on Billions

I made a diy tech ring. Video on my channel

Lower variability=higher stress. You flipped it

Well, stress vs. "stress response." "Stress" is a mental experience - of course we can't measure that directly. Our responses to our mental state are all we will ever be able to measure.

Oh, PRINCE HARRY. Now I've GOT to have one... 😐

I'm not even remotely excited about this. These devices are all going to be run on proprietary software that will essentially be spyware to track you're movements in 3-D space so corporations can know not just where you are but how you move and how stressed you are.

The authentication ring is a lot more interesting to me than a health tracker. I should be able to use my ring to pay for things, log in to my computer, prove I am who I say I am in the Airtport, etc. Much more natural and seamless use case than shoddy health trackers that don't measure what they claim to

I didn't much care for the monitoring functionality, I just wanted a ring to open my phone or something unimportant. Turns out an RFID ring was the answer, and if you're creative about it you can actually do a hell of a lot with something like that.

So in short, rings are pretty useless at present.

I'd be all over a smart ring, but only on my own terms. The idea of sending off this kind of data to a third party is completely unacceptable in my eyes.

As soon as they come out with an open source ring that you can install your own OS on, I'm in. The only workable solution in my opinion is to have one computer at home which is allowed to talk to the ring. You would manually upload to that computer, and that's the only device that will ever interface with it.

Fantasy RPG rings with stats are gonna be real. Gonna get myself a +14 charisma -3 wisdom ring.

I'm sorry, what ? Please remove this commercial from your channel, this does not do you credit.

The biggest problem with these is that it shares all of that data with a huge corporation who then sells it and uses it to exploit you.

The idea that tech companies might try to add sentiment to the wearables is amusing because if they did that people would be less inclined to buy the inevitable new model the following year!

Aw, just fitness BS? I though they actually shrunk all of computing and AI down to ring sized to replace smartphones and watches entirely. Wake me up when that happens!