Digital jewelry prachi

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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, jewelry 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 jewelry with embedded intelligence i.e., Digital
jewelry. Digital jewelry 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 jewelry (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.

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CHAPTER-1
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 jewelry as a way to locate communication and
information devices on the body. However, these developments are emerging from outside the
field of contemporary jewelry. Consequently digital jewelry is significantly under-explored
within contemporary jewelry practice and the emerging developments from other fields present
a narrow interpretation of both jewelry 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 jewelry 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 jewelry 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’s 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.

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CHAPTER-2
DIGITAL JEWELRY
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’s 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’s
wired world – the forgotten password.
Digital jewelry 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 “capacitive coupling Pico amp 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 jewelry 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. 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.
Bubble badge and Body Coupled FingeRing are examples of early human-computer interaction
outputs. Each example posits jewelry as a vehicle for digital communication, and the body as
a mobile location for such devices. The Bubble badge houses a digital display, to display text

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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
jewelry through the work of Denise Chan, a mechanical engineering graduate whose concept
was a set of jewelry objects which together function as a mobile phone.

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CHAPTER-3
DIGITAL JEWELRY AND ITS COMPONENTS
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.
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. Cell phones may one day be comprised of digital
accessories that work together through wireless connections.
Figure 1: Digital Accessories of cellphones
Here are the pieces of computerized-jewelry phone:
 Earrings
 Necklace
 Ring
 Bracelet

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Here are the functions of different components of digital jewelry-
3.1 Earrings
Speakers are embedded into these earrings which acts as phone’s receiver. These days many
manufacturers are developing things like Bluetooth devices in the form of earrings that people
can wear that help enhance their mobile phones, computers, PDAs basically anything that uses
similar technology.
Figure 2: Digital Bluetooth earrings
3.2 Necklace
Users will talk into the necklace's embedded microphone. They transfer the information in
the forms of signals. It consist of sensors by which it will work, operated mainly by blue
tooth technology. Digital necklaces has realized the dream to email just by talking into your
necklace. The whole concept behind this is to be able to communicate to others by means
of wireless application and using Bluetooth technology at its best.

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Figure 3: Digital Necklace
3.3 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.
 The same ring 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
 The mouse-ring that IBM is developing will use the company's Track Point technology
which looks something like a black-pearl to wirelessly move the cursor on a computer-
monitor display. Track Point is the little button embedded in the keyboard of some
laptops
 Track Point is basically the little button embedded in the keyboard of some laptops). 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.
 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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Figure 4: IBM's magic decoder rings will flash when you get a call.
3.4 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 jewelry 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.
Figure 5: VGA equipped wrist display and Bluetooth bracelets

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Figure 6: Prototype bracelet display developed by IBM

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CHAPTER-4
CREATING DIGITAL JEWELRY
4.1 INTRODUCTION
The analysis of craft, jewelry and digital technologies arises from a doctoral research
investigation exploring the integration of digital technologies within contemporary jewelry
objects which has primary aim to learn elements of what is personally significant to someone
and to echo fragments of this back in the form of digital jewelry. The aim is not to translate
existing modes of communication, such as mobile phones, into digital jewelry, but to create
objects which echo those types of communication that are significant to people in a far less
prescribed way. The pieces are meant as objects for the specific individuals involved in the
research, not as prototypes for mass manufacture, and is an approach that echoes a tradition
within craft and jewelry practice. The pieces pose a polemic for the design of digital jewelry:
what this new category of object can potentially be and how it can be an extension of
contemporary jewelry rather than of current digital devices or gadgets. Within the research six
individuals shared stories, memories and reflections of their lives through a set of “stimuli”,
which draw influence from “Cultural/Domestic Probes” and jewelry project “KPZ-02” (Bartels
and Lindmark-Vrijmann, 2002). The set of object based “stimuli” involve action, play and
reflection to ask questions, tell stories and create images to gain insight and information of
experiences, interactions, relationships, events and memories etc. which, for each individual,
are important and valued.
The stimuli are related to the themes of:
(1) Personal ideas of preciousness, significance and symbolism
(2) The meanings and roles attached to each person’s ideas of jewelry, in practical, evocative
and emotional terms
(3) Communication, both interpersonal and concepts of existing and future modes
(4) Positive memories, aspirations and goals
(5) Transience and permanence
Jewelry has often played the role of objects that stimulate a discussion or act as a focal point
within a relationship. The use of objects as mediators in the collection of inspirational data
about each participant is therefore a continuation of the way jewelry often functions. The digital

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jewelry pieces result from an interpretation of these shared fragments. The process does not
instruct an audience what they should want or need, nor is the individual dictating to the maker
what to make, but through a conversation of perspectives found through the iterative process
an empathic, intuitive idea arises. One key importance of the process is an openness, which
allows the audience to interact as individuals, adding their own interpretations within the
interaction. From the six response packs, three were selected for development as digital jewelry
pieces. Each of the three pieces produced consist of a crafted jewelry object together with a
DVD to illustrate the digital potential of the piece.

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CHAPTER-5
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF DIGITAL JEWELRY
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. Digital Jewelry 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 display devices. 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 jewelry. Digital Jewelry 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 display devices.
5.1 DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES:
The digital jewelry 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 alternative display for
LCDs (liquid-crystal-displays) also be used, as often found in watches.

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Figure 7: alphanumeric or graphic display types
Digital Jewelry 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, which are all driven by the self-contained jewelry devices
themselves.
5.2 PROTOTYPES OF DIGITAL JEWELRY
Complete HIOX necklace showing all 26 letters of the Roman alphabet
extended in 4-dimensional space-time. Metal with leather cord.
Figure 8: programmable HIOX necklace and programmable HIOX ring with 16-segment LED display
5.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC BEADS:
The closest comparison to this model is that of 'beads' which are strung together to make a
custom necklace or bracelet, with interchangeable electromagnetic component systems or
devices. One bead may be a capacitor on the inside, and a solar panel on the outside. Another

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bead may have an internal resistor which feed power into a programmed microcontroller bead
which drives an external screen, with other options available in a variety of bead configurations
which compose a circuit, including beads with a piezo element, voltage regulator, crystal, or
rechargeable battery as part of the modular jewel circuit. The number of data pins on the
microcontroller needs to be enough to easily program the display layer plus the switches
without overly complex and advanced coding methods. The key to the device's ability to work
effectively is a balancing of electronic components within the circuit with a light-duty
processing and limited power consumption required for the display (d) layer
Figure 9: Electromagnetic Beads

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CHAPTER-6
CURRENT AND ONGOING ACHIEVEMENTS
6.1 INTELLIGENT SPECTACLES
Intelligent Spectacles this could be the shape of designer glasses to come. These intelligent
spectacles 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.
6.2 SMART WRIST WATCH
Having the power of a computer on your wrist may sound like science fiction. But this is the
idea behind the wrist watch PDA. 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.
6.3 CHARMED COMMUNICATOR EYEPIECE
Charmed Technology is already marketing its digital jewelry, including a futuristic looking
eyepiece display. The eyepiece is the display component of the company’s Charmed
Communicator; a wearable, wireless, broadband- Internet device that can be controlled by
voice, pen or handheld keypad. The Communicator can be used as an MP3 player, video player
and cell phone. The Communicator runs on the company’s Linux- based UNIX operating
system. The eyepiece above displays images and data received wirelessly from the
Communicator’s belt module.
6.4 MOUSE RING
The Optical Finger Mouse is created by Logisys. The innovative way of browsing your
computer via this optical mouse is just so tremendous. It seems so easy to use. Just strap the
mouse on to your middle finger or index finger and find a flat surface and you can maneuver
the cursor on the screen with your hand free to do what you want with only slight finger or

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hand movement. Don’t worry about the typing as, this mouse allows you to type while using it
and much more. It is connected to the CPU via USB cord and can be used with mobile laptops
as well. I am sure if this mouse is in our market the users will try it out as it is a coolly designed
futuristic piece of equipment.
6.5 GPS TOE RINGS
GPS Toes, toe rings which act as directional indicators and are wirelessly connected to a GPS
receiver kept in a bag or worn on a belt.
6.6 THE JAVA RING
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.
The Java Ring is snapped into a reader, called a Blue Dot receptor, to allow communication
between a host system and the Java Ring. The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters
in diameter, which houses a 1-million-transistor processor, called an iButton. The ring has 134
KB of 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.
Figure 10: The Java Ring and Blue Dot Receptor

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CHAPTER-7
ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS
7.1 ADVANTAGES
 It provides security for example JAVA RING is used to lock or unlock doors or computers
as we use passwords and keys to lock our doors
 Digital Jewelry made possible using wireless communication with convenience
 High Durability
 Portability with high memory to store all the passwords
 Direct and natural interaction with the user
7.2 LIMITATIONS
 Very high cost of implementing which results in higher market rate
 The main drawback is non rechargeable battery which is used in digital jewelry

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CONCLUSION
The basic idea behind the digital jewelry concept is to have the convenience of wireless, wearable
computers while remaining fashionably sound. It provides security and easy to carry. However,
several bugs remain. Charging capabilities and cost are just a sample of the problems that lurk.
Jewelry is worn for many reasons -- for aesthetics, to impress others, or as a symbol of affiliation
or commitment. Jewelry might double as our cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and
GPS receivers. Each piece of jewelry will contain a fraction of the components found in a
conventional mobile phone. 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.

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REFERENCES
1. Bluetooth Connect without Cables--Jennifer Bray and Charles F Sturman
2. Next Sizzling Fashion Trend of the Technological Wave, Ms.Rinkuben Patel
3. Digital Jewelry Kohima Research Scholar, Singhania University, Rajasthan
4. Digital jewelry and family relationships - J Wallace, Dan Jackson, CasLadha and Patrick
Olivier Culture Lab, Newcastle University

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