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Report on Digital Jewellery
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INTRODUCTION
Recent technological advancements have resulted in a climate where technology is too intrusive the increased miniaturization 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 Jewelry" 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 jewelry with embedded intelligence. Today, 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. By the end of the decade, we could be wearing our computers instead of sitting in front of them.
DIGITAL JEWELLERY
Digital jewelry is the fashion jewelry with embedded intelligence. Digital jewelry can help you solve problems like forgotten passwords and security badges. Digital jewelry 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 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 wired world the forgotten password.
Digital jewellery can come in other forms as well. Innovators at IBM and the MITMedia 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
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.
COMPONENTS OF DIGITAL JEWELLERY
Soon, cell phones will take a totally new form, appearing to have no form at all. Instead of one single device, cell phones will be broken up into their basic components and packaged as various pieces of digital jewelry. Each piece of jewelry will contain a fraction of the components found in a conventional mobile phone. Together, the digital-jewelry cell phone should work just like a conventional cell phone.
The various components that are inside a cell phone: Microphone, Receiver, Touch pad, Display, Circuit board, Antenna, and Battery. Cell phones may one day be comprised of digital accessories that Work together through wireless connections.
IBM has developed a prototype of a cell phone that consists of several pieces of digital jewelry that will work together wirelessly, possibly with Blue tooth wireless technology, to perform the functions of the above components.
Here are the pieces of computerized-jewelry phone and their functions:
Earrings - Speakers embedded into these earrings will be the phone's receiver. Necklace - Users will talk into the necklace's embedded microphone.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF DIGITAL JEWELLERY
Digital jewelry devices consist of a screen or display for information, most likely consisting of 7-16-segment, or dot matrix LEDs, LCDs, or other technologies such as electroluminescent material (EL) or others, which could become an optional display. So too, an audiovisual or other 'display' could consist of a speaker, a single flashing light, a sensor of some kind (such as a temperature driven EL display), or other informational aesthetic. The display layer sits on a face of the device, which is enclosed in some material such as plastic, metal, crystal, or other material. It has external switches and buttons on its side and a data-port for accessing the programmable electronic circuit inside. A micro controller that is a surface mounted device (SMD) on a printed circuit board (PCB) with resistors ® and capacitors © are the internal 'guts' of the jewelry.