{"id":17664,"date":"2015-09-21T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-one-gesture-control-ring-to-rule-them-all"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:52","slug":"the-one-gesture-control-ring-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-one-gesture-control-ring-to-rule-them-all","title":{"rendered":"The one (gesture control) ring to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-one-gesture-control-ring-to-rule-them-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many companies are tinkering with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/01\/10\/pmd-camboard-pico-xs-gesture-camera\/\">lasers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/06\/elliptic-labs-ultrasound-multi-layer-interaction\/\">ultrasound<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/01\/08\/thalmic-labs-myo-armband-ces-2014\/\">arm muscles<\/a> for touchless gesture control on portable devices and desktop PCs, Japan\u2019s 16Lab just wants to put a pretty ring on you. The yet-to-be-named titanium wearable is designed by the award-winning Manabu Tago, and it features ALPS Electric\u2019s tiny module (5.05 \u00d7 5.65 \u00d7 2.5 mm) that somehow manages to pack Bluetooth Smart radio, movement sensor, environment sensor plus antennas \u2014 there\u2019s a video demo after the break. Despite its custom-made 10mAh lithium polymer cell, 16Lab is aiming for at least 20 hours of battery life. This is possible mainly because you have to place your thumb on the top pad (with the ring\u2019s wedge pointing away from the user) to enable the sensors \u2014 upon which point the ring vibrates to confirm that it\u2019s active. It\u2019s then just a matter of waving and tilting your hand until you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery | 13 Photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/08\/16lab-alps-gesture-ring\/?ncid=rss_truncated\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many companies are tinkering with lasers, ultrasound and even arm muscles for touchless gesture control on portable devices and desktop PCs, Japan\u2019s 16Lab just wants to put a pretty ring on you. The yet-to-be-named titanium wearable is designed by the award-winning Manabu Tago, and it features ALPS Electric\u2019s tiny module (5.05 \u00d7 5.65 \u00d7 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69501,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions\/69501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}