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Google Glass might be the first thing many of us think of when someone says

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stupid pointless wearable device hear that almost every day but surprisingly

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enough it was far from the most ridiculous thing that Corporate America

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thought we should strap onto our bodies for example take a look at this thing

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it's called the Poma made by a company called zyber not that amazingly was not

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in the business of making late 90s Saturday morning cartoons the Poma came

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out back in 2002 and was actually a full full-fledged computer that made you look

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like you just walked off the set of Star Trek it ran on Windows CE you know that

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obscure version of Windows for embedded systems and rocked a meager 128 MHz CPU

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with 32 Megs of memory that's incredibly underpowered by today's standards but

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back then yeah yeah it was still pretty bad

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for 2002 the one eyy display had an 800x600 resolution with the idea being

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to replicate a 13-in monitor but it turns out completely obscuring one of

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your eyes isn't such a good idea people

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reportedly kept running into walls while trying to use it your choices of input

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were either an oddl looking Optical Mouse you could use to click individual

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letters on an on-screen keyboard or an actual physical keyboard you could strap

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to your forearm like the greatest hacker that ever lived needless to say with a

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$1,500 price tag and poor battery life it didn't sell well even with xybernaut

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trying to make the Poma seem like the Pinnacle of cool

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almost got there next up Beauty And The

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Geek not to be confused with the reality show this was a concept we saw back in

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2012 and looked like something right out of a really lame version of cyberpunk

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2077 instead of taking a keyboard and mouse with you why not just put it in

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your pants Beauty And The Geek was a pair of black jeans with orange

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stitching that could have been reasonably fashionable but literally had

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a working keyboard sewed in right over your junk aside from the downside that

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typing in public could now be misconstrued as something rather

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indecent the concept tried to take convenience to the max by also building

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in speakers and a wireless mouse that hung from a strap I also don't really

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know how you're supposed to wash these things so it's not surprising that these

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high-tech trousers never made it past the concept stage the next thing we're

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going to tell you about actually did make it to Market and was a heck of a

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lot more practical than the wearable PC or the keyboard pants but unfortunately

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it sucked big time we'll give you the details right after we thank this video

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this one this thing is called the ring by log bar and it was supposed to be a

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hyper minimalist and Ultra convenient way to interact with your Tech you'd

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slip it on your finger and then complete tasks like sending texts turning on the

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lights and changing channels on your TV all by drawing simple gestures in midair

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so many people were captivated by the idea of waving your fingers in the air

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like a that it raised over a million bucks on Kickstarter but the

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ring broke the cardinal rule of Technology it didn't work when a user

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got in touch with Ring's support and told them the gestures only worked

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around 5% of the time he was apparently told that yeah that sounded about

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right yikes it also didn't help that the ring was so large that it looked like

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you were wearing a piece of metallic calamari on your finger and given that

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it sold for a not nice price of

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$269 it was quickly panned as one of the worst wearables in history I just hope

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no poor soul out there got this gifted to them as a wedding band but I do hope

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