Digital Jewellery Final Report
Digital Jewellery Final Report
Digital Jewellery Final Report
A Technical Report
On
DIGITAL JEWELLERY
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HYDERABAD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(Affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad,AP)
Gowdavelly,Medchal Mandal,R.R.District.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the following student G.SAI PUJA ( 07E51A0462 ) have
successfully completed her technical report titled “DIGITAL JEWELLERY” in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of BACHELOR
OF TECHNOLOGY by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,
Hyderabad, during the academic year 2007-2011.
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External Examiner
ABSTRACT
Mobile computing is beginning to break the chains that tie us to our desks, but
many of today's mobile devices can still be a bit awkward to carry around. In the next age
of computing, there will be an explosion of computer parts across our bodies, rather than
across our desktops.
Basically, jewellery adorns the body, and has very little practical purpose.
However, researchers are looking to change the way we think about the beads and
bobbles we wear. The combination of microcomputer devices and increasing computer
power has allowed several companies to begin producing fashion jewellery with
embedded intelligence i.e., Digital jewellery. Digital jewellery can best be defined as
wireless, wearable computers that allow you to communicate by ways of e-mail,
voicemail, and voice communication. This paper enlightens on how various computerized
jewellery (like ear-rings, necklace, ring, bracelet, etc.,) will work with mobile embedded
intelligence.
It seems that everything we access today is under lock and key. Even the devices
we use are protected by passwords. It can be frustrating trying to keep with all of the
passwords and keys needed to access any door or computer program. This paper
discusses about a new Java-based, computerized ring that will automatically unlock doors
and log on to computers.
By the end of the decade, we could be wearing our computers instead of sitting in
front of them.
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 5
3. ELECTROMAGNETIC BEADS 11
5. JAVA RING 14
5.1 Introduction 14
5.2 Working 14
5.3 Features 15
7. ADVANTAGES 20
8. CONCLUSION 21
9. REFERENCES 22
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1. INTRODUCTION
The latest computer craze has been to be able to wear wireless computers. The
Computer Fashion Wave, "Digital Jewellery" 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
jewellery with embedded intelligence. Today’s, manufacturers place millions of
transistors on a microchip, which can be used to make small devices that store tons of
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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. Researchers have already created an array of digital-
jewellery prototypes.
Digital jewellery can come in other forms as well. Innovators at IBM and the MIT
Media 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.
2.1. 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.
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Technological innovation has to date been the dominant concern for wearables research.
Thad Starner (2001) outlined the challenges facing the development of wearables as
power use, heat dissipation, networking, interface design and privacy; with no mention of
the user’s emotional experiences of such devices.
Bubblebadge (Fig 2.1.1) and Body Coupled FingeRing (Fig 2.1.2) are examples of
early human-computer interaction outputs. Each example posits jewellery as a vehicle for
digital communication, and the body as a mobile location for such devices.
Fig 2.1.1: The Bubblebadge: A wearable Fig 2.1.2: Body Coupled FingeRing:
Public Display Wireless Wearable Keyboard
The Bubblebadge houses a digital display, to display text generated by the wearer,
by a specific environment or by the viewer. In one scenario the brooch could show the
viewer if they had received any new emails, at which point the viewer may end the
conversation with the wearer and go and check her or his emails. FingeRing similarly
focuses on usability and treats the body as a convenient location to situate an electronic
device. Sensors are attached to each finger in the form of rings to facilitate the input of
data into a portable or wearable personal digital assistant (PDA).
IBM Research has been exploring digital jewellery through the work of Denise
Chan, a mechanical engineering graduate. Chan’s concept was a set of jewellery objects,
which together functioned as a wearable mobile phone.
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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 jewellery. Each piece of jewellery will contain a
fraction of the components found in a conventional mobile phone. Together, the digital-
jewellery 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. IBM has developed a prototype
of a cell phone that consists of several pieces of digital jewellery that will work together
wirelessly, possibly with Blue tooth wireless technology, to perform the functions of the
above components.
Fig 2.2: Cell phones may one day be comprised of digital accessories that
work together through wireless connections.
Here are the pieces of computerized-jewellery phone (Fig 2.2) 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.
• Ring: Perhaps the most interesting piece of the phone, this "magic decoder ring” is
equipped with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that flash to indicate an incoming call. It
can also be programmed to flash different colors to identify a particular caller or
indicate the importance of a call.
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• Bracelet: Equipped with a video graphics array (VGA) display, this wrist display
could also be used as a caller identifier that flashes the name and phone number of the
caller.
With a jewellery phone, the keypad and dialing function could be integrated into
the bracelet, or else dumped altogether ; it's likely that voice-recognition software will be
used to make calls, a capability that is already commonplace in many of today's cell
phones. Simply say the name of the person you want to call and the phone will dial that
person. IBM is also working on a miniature rechargeable battery to power these
components.
Digital jewellery 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 (R) and capacitors (C) are the internal 'guts' of the jewellery.
The digital jewellery display, for instance, every alphabet and number system has
found representation within the electronics realm and 'dot-matrix' (a matrix of single
LEDs) is used to display Chinese and Japanese and other character sets, as can the
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alternative display for LCDs (liquid-crystal-displays) also be used, as often found in
watches.
Digital Jewellery can be made in many different sizes and shapes with a variety of
materials ranging from plastic and metal to rubber and glass. They utilize electromagnetic
properties and electronics to display information through a screen or display of some
kind. This could range from LED 7-segment, 16-segment, dot matrix, and other
programmable LEDs devices to LCDs, OLEDs, and other displays (Fig 2.3 ), which are
all driven by the self-contained jewellery devices themselves.
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3. ELECTROMAGNETIC BEADS
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4. PROTOTYPES OF DIGITAL JEWELLERY
Complete HIOX necklace showing all 26 letters of the Roman alphabet extended
in 4-dimensional space-time. Metal with leather cord.
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4.3. IBM’s BRACELET DISPLAY
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5. THE JAVA RING
5.1. INTRODUCTION
It seems that everything we access today is under lock and key. Even the devices
we use are protected by passwords. It can be frustrating trying to keep with all of the
passwords and keys needed to access any door or computer program. Dallas
Semiconductor is developing a new Java-based, computerized ring that will automatically
unlock doors and log on to computers.
5.2. WORKING
The Java Ring can be programmed to give you access to every door and device. It
is snapped into a reader, called a blue dot receptor, to allow communication between a
receptor and the java ring.
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RAM, 32 KB of ROM, a real-time clock and a Java virtual machine, which is a piece of
software that recognizes the Java language and translates it for the user's computer
system. Digital jewelry, (designed to supplement the personal computer,) will be the
evolution in digital technology that makes computer elements entirely compatible with
the human form.
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6. CURRENT AND ONGOING ACHIEVEMENTS
6.1. CHARMBADGE
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This could be the shape of designer glasses to come. These intelligent spectacles
(Fig 6.2) let you surf the web or check your e-mail, whenever and wherever you want.
Your eye would serve as a mouse, with menu items selected by focusing your attention
on an item on screen.
Having the power of a computer on your wrist may sound like science fiction. But
this is the idea behind the wristwatch PDA (Fig 6.3). It would have a widescreen display
to watch video, and voice recognition technology so that you can use it by simply talking
to your wrist. And of course, it also tells you the time.
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Fig 6.4: IBM's magic decoder rings will flash when you get a call.
IBM’s magic decoder ring (Fig 6.4) that flashes for phone calls could also inform
you that e-mail is piling up in your inbox. This flashing alert could also indicate the
urgency of the e-mail.
6.6. MOUSE-RING
The mouse-ring that IBM is developing will use the company's Track Point
technology to wirelessly move the cursor on a computer-monitor display. (Track Point is
the little button embedded in the keyboard of some laptops). IBM Researchers have
transferred TrackPoint technology to a ring, which looks something like a black-pearl
ring. On top of the ring is a little black ball that users will swivel to move the cursor, in
the same way that the TrackPoint button on a laptop is used.
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This Track Point ring will be very valuable when monitors shrink to the size of
watch face. In the coming age of ubiquitous computing, displays will no longer be tied to
desktops or wall screens. Instead, you'll wear the display like a pair of sunglasses or a
bracelet. Researchers are overcoming several obstacles facing these new wearable
displays, the most important of which is the readability of information displayed on these
tiny devices.
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7. CONCLUSION
The basic idea behind the digital jewellery concept is to have the convenience of
wireless, wearable computers while remaining fashionably sound. It is hoped to be
marketable soon, however, several bugs remain such as charging capabilities and cost.
By the end of the decade, we could be wearing our computers instead of sitting in
front of them.
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8. REFERENCES
[1]. www.IBM.com
[2]. www.howstuffworks.com
[3]. www.infoworld.com
[4]. www.ibutton.com
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