Cicret Bracelet (future HCI technologies)

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The Cicret Bracelet will be a water proof bracelet that displays your smart phone’s screen right on your skin, in other words it basically makes your skin a virtual touchscreen. The person using the Cicret Bracelet can read e-mails, play their favorite games, answer phone calls, check the weather, and do pretty much the same task as a smartphone. This idea is very exciting, however new innovations also comes with questions and concerns. Some of the major concerns include, “Will this device work if someone has hairy arms”, or “How will input lag be taken into consideration”? I am really excited about the Cicret Bracelet and the idea behind it, I think a device like this will be very helpful. 


As of right now (April 17, 2015) the Cicret Bracelet remains to be just an idea, the creators made a promotional video with the idea in late 2014 that was sort of deceiving. The promotional video showed a working version of the Cicret Bracelet and all of its functionalities, however it was later discovered that there wasn’t an actual prototype at the time. Recently the creators put out a prototype video, in my opinion it was a letdown. The company’s website states that the Cicret Bracelet will be available for purchase Q4 2015 or Q1 2016, however we are in the 4th month of the year and I would guess the developer edition (if that even exist) will release no earlier than Q1 2016. The creators will need much more funding and a better working prototype in order to make the Cicret Bracelet work.



Check out this video of the Cicret Bracelet. 

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Robert Sparrowk, Master of Computer Science student

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