JewelJewel : Pendant
Kickstarter
JewelJewel is an intricate, ornamental pendant that uses electronics to accentuate and deepen the traditional functionalities of jewelry.
Rather than using ornament as a skin for integrating other, new, additional functionalities into your life, JewelJewel considers a few of the reasons why we already wear and use jewelry, and then uses sensors and electronic outputs to fulfill those reasons in a more effective manner. Those three elements are:
-Jewelry as an object that desires and needs to be worn
-The use of refracted light and stones to accentuate the wearer
-Jewelry as an amulet/container
JewelJewel is an exploration of the viability of electronic jewelry.
This Kickstarter serves not only as an opportunity to contextualize the electronic pendant alongside other new, current interpretations of "wearable technology," and to thrust it into a public sphere, but also as a chance to emphasize the worn nature of jewelry. Through this campaign, anyone who wishes to can have the opportunity to own, experience, and bond with the work. That array of experiences with the work will be extremely valuable information when it comes to further developing electronic jewelry.
Inside JewelJewel is a hand-etched PCB, which features a temperature sensor, a photocell, a piezo, a vibration motor, and several LEDs. Through these components, JewelJewel emphasizes the following functionalities:
JewelJewel lets you know if you are wearing it well.
Jewelry wants and needs to be worn. Once turned on, the piece shivers and vibrates until your body heat warms the piece up.
JewelJewel uses LEDs to compensate for when ambient light decreases.
Stones are a quintessential part of jewelry, reflecting light to draw attention to the beauty of the wearer. The brightness of the LEDs under the stones increases as the photocell detects a darkening of the environment, so that they continue to accentuate how good looking you are.
JewelJewel functions like an amulet-like container.
When you open it, the photocell detects the change in light and a piezo sings a short song. After this, it beeps either once, twice, or three times, as a no, yes, or maybe answer.
Plus, you can draw your own face in the middle with a dry-erase marker.
My main goal is increasing the reach of JewelJewel, in order to assess how it fits into different lifestyles. Spreading the manual and the ideas expressed in it is a similar goal. For this reason, keeping the reward prices relatively low is very important.
JewelJewel was not a startup. It is a one-off project that will last only as long as the remainder of this semester, an experiment in the potential of electronic jewelry. This particular product will only be available here and now, though success in this campaign may bring similar jewelry devices into the future.
JewelJewel is an intricate, ornamental pendant that uses electronics to accentuate and deepen the traditional functionalities of jewelry.
Rather than using ornament as a skin for integrating other, new, additional functionalities into your life, JewelJewel considers a few of the reasons why we already wear and use jewelry, and then uses sensors and electronic outputs to fulfill those reasons in a more effective manner. Those three elements are:
-Jewelry as an object that desires and needs to be worn
-The use of refracted light and stones to accentuate the wearer
-Jewelry as an amulet/container
JewelJewel is an exploration of the viability of electronic jewelry.
This Kickstarter serves not only as an opportunity to contextualize the electronic pendant alongside other new, current interpretations of "wearable technology," and to thrust it into a public sphere, but also as a chance to emphasize the worn nature of jewelry. Through this campaign, anyone who wishes to can have the opportunity to own, experience, and bond with the work. That array of experiences with the work will be extremely valuable information when it comes to further developing electronic jewelry.
Inside JewelJewel is a hand-etched PCB, which features a temperature sensor, a photocell, a piezo, a vibration motor, and several LEDs. Through these components, JewelJewel emphasizes the following functionalities:
JewelJewel lets you know if you are wearing it well.
Jewelry wants and needs to be worn. Once turned on, the piece shivers and vibrates until your body heat warms the piece up.
JewelJewel uses LEDs to compensate for when ambient light decreases.
Stones are a quintessential part of jewelry, reflecting light to draw attention to the beauty of the wearer. The brightness of the LEDs under the stones increases as the photocell detects a darkening of the environment, so that they continue to accentuate how good looking you are.
JewelJewel functions like an amulet-like container.
When you open it, the photocell detects the change in light and a piezo sings a short song. After this, it beeps either once, twice, or three times, as a no, yes, or maybe answer.
Plus, you can draw your own face in the middle with a dry-erase marker.
My main goal is increasing the reach of JewelJewel, in order to assess how it fits into different lifestyles. Spreading the manual and the ideas expressed in it is a similar goal. For this reason, keeping the reward prices relatively low is very important.
JewelJewel was not a startup. It is a one-off project that will last only as long as the remainder of this semester, an experiment in the potential of electronic jewelry. This particular product will only be available here and now, though success in this campaign may bring similar jewelry devices into the future.