Google Glass might be the first thing many of us think of when someone says
stupid pointless wearable device hear that almost every day but surprisingly
enough it was far from the most ridiculous thing that Corporate America
thought we should strap onto our bodies for example take a look at this thing
it's called the Poma made by a company called zyber not that amazingly was not
in the business of making late 90s Saturday morning cartoons the Poma came
out back in 2002 and was actually a full full-fledged computer that made you look
like you just walked off the set of Star Trek it ran on Windows CE you know that
obscure version of Windows for embedded systems and rocked a meager 128 MHz CPU
with 32 Megs of memory that's incredibly underpowered by today's standards but
back then yeah yeah it was still pretty bad
for 2002 the one eyy display had an 800x600 resolution with the idea being
to replicate a 13-in monitor but it turns out completely obscuring one of
your eyes isn't such a good idea people
reportedly kept running into walls while trying to use it your choices of input
were either an oddl looking Optical Mouse you could use to click individual
letters on an on-screen keyboard or an actual physical keyboard you could strap
to your forearm like the greatest hacker that ever lived needless to say with a
$1,500 price tag and poor battery life it didn't sell well even with xybernaut
trying to make the Poma seem like the Pinnacle of cool
almost got there next up Beauty And The
Geek not to be confused with the reality show this was a concept we saw back in
2012 and looked like something right out of a really lame version of cyberpunk
2077 instead of taking a keyboard and mouse with you why not just put it in
your pants Beauty And The Geek was a pair of black jeans with orange
stitching that could have been reasonably fashionable but literally had
a working keyboard sewed in right over your junk aside from the downside that
typing in public could now be misconstrued as something rather
indecent the concept tried to take convenience to the max by also building
in speakers and a wireless mouse that hung from a strap I also don't really
know how you're supposed to wash these things so it's not surprising that these
high-tech trousers never made it past the concept stage the next thing we're
going to tell you about actually did make it to Market and was a heck of a
lot more practical than the wearable PC or the keyboard pants but unfortunately
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
hyper minimalist and Ultra convenient way to interact with your Tech you'd
slip it on your finger and then complete tasks like sending texts turning on the
lights and changing channels on your TV all by drawing simple gestures in midair
so many people were captivated by the idea of waving your fingers in the air
like a that it raised over a million bucks on Kickstarter but the
ring broke the cardinal rule of Technology it didn't work when a user
got in touch with Ring's support and told them the gestures only worked
around 5% of the time he was apparently told that yeah that sounded about
right yikes it also didn't help that the ring was so large that it looked like
you were wearing a piece of metallic calamari on your finger and given that
it sold for a not nice price of
$269 it was quickly panned as one of the worst wearables in history I just hope
no poor soul out there got this gifted to them as a wedding band but I do hope
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