Gizmodo: bracelet

Rationalizer Bracelet and Bowl Concept Video Plays Like the Lamest Thriller Ever

Dan Nosowitz — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:36:00 EDT

This product, from the possibly-crazed minds at Philips, is weird enough—basically a stress-detecting bracelet and bowl—but the teaser for it has more tension than a thriller's trailer. Just imagine: "One man. One bracelet. In a race against time."

The oddly-named Rationalizer looks like a reasonably simple, if bizarre, product: A bracelet that probably detects clamminess and pulse, and wirelessly sends that data to an LED-laden bowl. The bowl turns red (red is always bad, you guys) when "stress" levels are too high, and the important businessman who's wearing this contraption knows he needs to stop day-trading or whatever and have a glass of water. It's still in the conceptual stage right now, but it's far along enough for Philips to make a hilariously overwrought teaser. Check it out here. [Philips via Engadget]

The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby

Mark Wilson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:45:00 EST

OK, who gave Brando the rhinestones?

With Valentine's Day a little over a month away, we're all scratching our heads as to how to get our loved ones jewelry that we can actually play with. Luckily, the $33 USB Thumb Drive Bracelet showed up just in time to ship from overseas. Hiding a discreet 8GB of fold-out USB flash storage behind two dazzling lines of glued-on "decorative crystals," your girlfriend will just think you're cheap. But you'll know the truth.

(Well, you are cheap, and the bracelet has a hidden USB drive). [Brando]

Survival Bracelet Made of Paracord For Emergency Rappeling Anytime, Anywhere

John Mahoney — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST

A more masculine bracelet you will not find: Survival Straps are tightly braided, 20-foot lengths of parachute cord that can support 550 pounds.

Perfect for that unforseen canyon rappel, or for Tarzan'ing across a battle station's inexplicably dangerous chasm with your princess. After you use it, you can send it back to the folks at Survival Straps and they will re-wind it for you, free of charge.

And for even more thrift, Instructables user Stormdrane has a great guide for weaving up your own. The pre-wound version from Survival Straps will run you $18-$22 depending on the buckle you want, and are available in 30 colors. [Survival Straps via Boing Boing Gadgets, Instructables]

Sleep Partner Acupuncture Bracelet Is Heavy On Snake Oil, Lacks Needles

Jack Loftus — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST

As far as we can tell, this watch doesn't actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn't, but there's a healthy amount of BS being tossed your way should you put it on and try to use it to get better sleep.

Touted as a "drug free" way to get some Z's, the Sleep Partner supposedly uses varying degrees of pressure to stimulate acupuncture points on the wrist.

Other magical properties include the ability to make $40 disappear from your wallet; as well as the ability to break soon after purchase and never work again.

The marketing materials suggest you don this bracelet 30 minutes before bed so it can normalize your body clock, eliminate insomnia, and knock you out just long enough so the Sleep Partner folks can clean out your place of residence. OK, you caught me. I made up the part about insomnia. [Expert Verdict]

LED Bracelet Flashlight Frees Up Both Hands For Work

Sean Fallon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:00 EST

Most of you probably know how annoying it is to work on something like an engine or a computer with a flashlight in one hand and a tool in the other. This bracelet helps free up both hands using four built-in LEDs—and it comes in packs of two so you can wear one on each wrist while you work. It's a great idea, but I suppose your friends and fellow mechanics will be unable to risk a joke or two at your expense. Something like: "did you forget your purse today?" and "where's the rave party boy?" Available for $20. [Computer Gear via BookofJoe via Coolest Gadgets]

Electronic Wristlet Helps You Nag Your Children From Afar

Sean Fallon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:45:00 EST

With all of the dangers lurking out there these days, you probably shouldn't let your toddler out of your sight for any length of time. However, should they escape your clutches this electronic wristlet concept could deliver text and graphic symbol messages to the child via a solar-powered display. My thought on this is that if your child is old enough to read the display then he is probably old enough for one of the many kid-oriented cellphones on the market. Perhaps it would be better utilized as a friendship bracelet for the 21st century—something that combines the benefits of text messaging with the benefits of wearing tacky accessories. [Yanko Design]

INFO Live Connected Bracelet Design Beats Gold Bracelets

Jason Chen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:20:00 EDT

Ever since I gave up my chains in 2005 because they were an insult to God, I've been trying to find a suitable replacement. Since T likes computers as much as he likes wearing gold, T thinks this INFO Live bracelet is just the thing to keep him connected and fashionable at the same time. Not only is it wireless, it can hook up to your printer, your TV, your computer and your camera and control each one with gestures. What? What do you mean it's not real. Mr. T doesn't like to be fooled, sucka. Mr. T has a forecast for you, and it's an 80% chance of pain. [NextGenDesignComp via TechPin via Uber Review]

Time-It Watch's LED Display Curls Around Your Wrist

Kit Eaton — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:13:32 EDT

This new LED watch curls around your wrist automagically, a bit like those weird snap-on bracelet thingies that were all the rage a while ago. Time-it's display is suitably LED-geeky, with several different modes, much like the Tokyo Flash or Nooka designs. Strangely its got a rechargeable battery, so it has to lie in its "magic case" to wirelessly charge every now and then. Inconvenient, perhaps, since it lasts between a day and two weeks depending on how often you activate the display.

Still, it's a neat design and is pretty unusual. Its shape and silicone waterproofness may even make it useful for sporty types. Available now, in brown, orange, black and white for $189. [LEDwatchstop via Technabob]

Orbit Design Keeps Your Remote Handy

Jason Chen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:14:44 EDT

Losing your remote is a daily occurrence, but with this orbit remote from Chloe Fung, you'll have to lose your arm to misplace this. The remote, worn as a bracelet, has the buttons placed around the edge so you can rotate it to find what you want to do. Interesting design, yes, but ultimately pretty useless when compared with a real remote. It does remind us of playing pranks on the classroom TV with a TV remote wristwatch when we were in school, though. Fun times. [Yanko Design]

Skull PCB Bracelet Brings Back High School Memories

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:54:19 EDT

A Livejournal user with the lovely moniker "vomitsaw" has crafted some equally lovely skull bracelets from copper printed circuit boards, which are etched by hand and sport AV plug fasteners. Apparently there's been enough interest in these very '80s ornaments to lure the goth/geek (geek/goth?) craftsman into the possibilities of entrepreneurship, so look for them to fetch $20 each here. [LJ via Craftzine via MAKE]

Updated iRiver has Bluetooth, Awesome Accessory

Travis Hudson — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:53:26 EST

Spotted at CES by the dapreview folks is this iRiver S10 with a watch-conversion attachment. Interestingly enough, the watch accessory covers the headphone jack on the actual S10, but then it was noticed that this version of the S10 (rather than the older version) actually has a small Bluetooth logo on it. I'd rock that watch, and rock some Bluetooth headphones to go along with it. No details on this updated S10, but we'll keep you posted. –Travis Hudson

Transform the iriver S10 into a... Watch? [dapreview]

Driver Fatigue Bracelet

Jason Chen — Mon, 15 May 2006 18:22:21 EDT

We were pretty frakin' tired waking up at 5:30 in the morning to hack through LA traffic to get to E3 last week. This alert driver fatigue wrist device could have saved us from all those near-misses.

The device comunicates with an RFID tag positioned in your car and only starts to detect whether you are tired when you are in your car. The device can be bent to fit your wrist, and has memory to stay in position, to ensure it will not fall off.

Safe and fashionable. Take that, Lance Armstrong foundation!

Alert Driver Fatigue Wrist Device [Yanko Design]