This week’s Wearable Tech roundup features a ring that shortcuts your way into everything, a fashionable security tracker, and a modish way to wear technology.

Ring

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The ring is the latest fashion accessory technologists are looking at to connect the Internet, or at least provide people an easier way to interact with their mobile devices.

Logbar Inc. launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ring, a wearable input device that aims to shortcut everything through gesture control.  The Ring allows the wearer to use gesture control to write messages, control connected home appliances, and even to transmit payment information to complete a transaction.

The ring has chips that allow it to convert finger movements into meaningful actions, and even has vibrations and LED lights for incoming transmissions or alerts.  The Ring has a touch sensor which a user touches to start using gestures to perform actions, then just hold your finger to end the gesture.

It has a mobile app where users can edit gestures so Rings deliver a personalized experience for its users.  And you don’t always have to whip out your device to complete certain tasks.

Cuff

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Phones are a necessity, especially in times of emergencies, but your handset isn’t always the best or immediately available form of communication.  Deepa Sood, the founder of Cuff, aims to revolutionize how people call for help with its connected line of jewelry pieces.

image source: Cuff

The Cuff is a rectangular piece of technology that wirelessly connects to your smartphone, which when activated, sends out alerts to your emergency contacts.  The Cuff can be placed in various accessories made of leather and metal such as the bracelets – The Lena, The Carin and The Mia, necklace – The Lisa and The Soleil and keychains – The J and The G, which are all created especially for Cuff.

“There’s this aesthetic vision that technology doesn’t have to scream technology,” said Sood, who has been making jewelry on her own.  “That was super appealing to me.”

It comes with a smartphone app which allows you to invite friends or family who will be receiving your alerts when you activate Cuff, receive alerts from others in your Cuff network either through vibrations on your Cuff on your smartphone, locate Cuff wearers in your network when they activate it, and it continuously sends alert until someone responds to your alert.  The best part is, Cuff is water resistant so you can wear it 24/7 without worrying about the device getting damaged.  You can pre-order Cuff starting at $50.

CuteCircuit

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image source: CuteCircuit

At New York Fashion Week, Francesca Rosella of CuteCircuit showed how technology can be incorporated into something that we can’t do without – clothes.  Using conductive nylon ribbons and disguising batteries as clasps or buttons, Rosella was able to create a line of clothing that is able to change colors, or even show video games being played on a mobile device.

Rosella managed to make the technology invisible which means the clothes looks and feels normal right until you used your iPhone or iPad to make it change colors, or create patterns to make your clothes stand out.