Designing The Next Generation Of Wearables, With Women In Mind. Christina Mercando spends a lot of her time shopping. "I look at rings," she told Fast Company, "and pick out the ones that can be Ringlys. " Ringly, a ring that connects to a smartphone and alerts wearers about incoming texts or calls via vibration and flashing lights, is Mercando's mission to merge fashion and technology. And despite housing an accelerometer, Bluetooth LE, a motor, and tiny LEDs, the wearable device, which will go on sale next summer, won't look like a gadget. "Design is our top focus," says Mercando, a former product VP at the personalization service Hunch, which was later acquired by eBay. "We want our customers to want to buy the products even if they didn't have the functionality. " After months of research and $1 million in funding, Mercando, the cofounder and CEO of Ringly, has settled on gold-plated brass bands with stones for the initial merchandise.
From a fashion perspective, Ringly and MEMI would appeal to wearers even if they didn't do anything. Here's What's Wrong With The Guardian Article On Wearables. 10 Fashion Tech Startups to Watch. Discover Fashion Trends, Fashion News & Fashion Advice | Closet Couture. OK Girls – Apple is Introducing the Social Networking Virtual Closet. Patent Background Every day people have various articles of clothing, jewelry, purses, and other accessories that they wear and carry.
These items could be stored at home in closets, drawers, shelves, or in other storage facilities. However, at times it may be difficult for a person to keep track of their clothing or easily view what items they own. For example, articles of clothing in a closet may be crowded together in a way that makes it difficult to view them, or the clothing may be stored in drawers or otherwise hidden from sight.
As another example, a person may lend their clothing or other items to friends, and then forget who has borrowed these belongings. Patent Summary Apple's patent focuses on systems and methods for providing a virtual fashion closet. The Virtual Closet could include a catalog or virtual representation of an actual, physical closet of a user. In some embodiments, outfits could be created by combining two or more fashion items of a Virtual Closet.