Digitized Jewelry – Not just a device but necessity
1. Kannaiah Mishra, Dept. of 2. Mohammed Shabbir, Dept.
ECE AMC Engg college of ECE AMC Engg college
Abstract-Pervasive computing technologies are defining
an emerging cultural fabric that is interwoven in everyone’s life
leading to digital culture through which human life n
communication derives uses of these technologies. It seems that
today’s we use lock and key method, this in near future will be
replaced with devices with passwords codes and Qr codes. In
this paper we emphasizing basically on digitized devices which
not only helps one communicate but also can monitor one’s
health conditions.
Keywords—Bluetooth, Digital, Embedded,
WirelessLifesaving.
I. INTRODUCTION
Digitized jewelry may be not today may be not tomorrow but in
coming future it’s a trend and craze. From ages jewelry is found
to be only facet of aesthetic value but now we can integrate
aestheticity along with advanced technologies
During the last years, large displays have been getting cheaper
and cheaper. So more and more large displays are placed into the
environment. The Digital jewelry project tries to establish a more
personal connection between people and these displays.
Normally, only impersonal information are shown on displays,
like news, timetables or commercials. But these displays could
also be used for showing some more of you. Our idea is to create
some digital jewelry what will be recognized by displays and
show some personal information about you. In case you think,
personal information are only your name, your address, your
birthday, your mobile phone number, etc. You’re wrong! How
about showing some holiday photos or movie clips? Or movies
from your work or hobbies? Or a movie clip you've just taken on
your way to work? Maybe it would be cool to show to your
friends or colleagues or just any person walking by the displays
with you. We try to find out how you and the environment will
react to this.
Currently the entire globe is fascinated by the term digitized
jewelry. May be not today may be not tomorrow but in near
future digital jewelry will be a craze. Digital jewelry is the fusion
of computer device along with the increasing computer power.
In coming ages mobile will have no form. Mobiles could be
spread into components in fashionable way.
The latest computer craze has been to be able to wear wireless
computers. The Computer Fashion Wave, "Digital Jewelry"
looks to be the next sizzling fashion trend of the technological
wave. The combination of shrinking computer devices and
increasing computer power has allowed several companies to
begin producing fashion jewelry with embedded intelligence.
Today’s, manufacturers place millions of transistors on a
microchip, which can be used to make small devices that store
tons of digital data.. The whole concept behind this is to be able
3. Atisha Santra, Dept. of 4. Mohammed Arsheel Ahmed,
ECE AMC Engg college Dept. of ECE AMC Engg college
to communicate to others by means of wireless appliances. The
other key factor of this concept market is to stay fashionable at
the same time.
Jewelry has also been a domain headed by females but this
electronic or interactive jewelry is the need of each and every
individual in this era of globalization. Digital Jewelry is
advancement in the field of embedded computing as it has given
people the power to wear computers and thus are not forced to
sit in front of them. The following sections give a detailed insight
in the field of digital jewelry, giving the details about the
technology and the advancements made in the field. The paper
concludes with the review of the latest technology of embedding
QR codes in the digital jewelry and finally exploring the future
scope of the technology.
II. UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL
JEWELRY
Digital jewelry is the fashion jewelry with embedded
intelligence. Digital jewelry can help you solve problems like
forgotten passwords and security badges. Digital jewelry is a
nascent catchphrase for wearable ID devices that contain
personal information like passwords, identification, and account
information. They have the potential to be all-in-one
replacements for your driverâ„¢s license, key chain, business
cards, credit cards, health insurance card, corporate security
badge, and loose cash. They can also solve a common dilemma
of todays wired world or the forgotten password.
III. UNDERLYING
TECHNOLOGIES
Before moving on to the architectural specifications of Digital
Jewelry, let us first understand the underlying technological
stipulations. Wearable computing amalgamates wireless
technology and embedded intelligence in the form of fashionable
jewelry.
[1]Embedded Intelligence is defined as any electronic system
inbuilt with intelligence. An embedded system has historically
been defined as a single function product where the intelligence
i.e. a microprocessor and a software is embedded in the system.
Many of today's embedded systems are looking more like PCs
with user interfaces, touchscreens, displays, keypads and more.
Still, these are not general function systems but are designed to
perform very specific functions. Even homes without a computer
are really filled with computers. The digital devices just don't
have keyboards and screens, since they're buried inside stereos,
vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, and almost anything else
that plugs into the wall or runs on batteries.
This embedding of processors and software’s in devices other
than traditional computer systems have paved way for wearable
computing which have the ability of performing communication
using wireless technologies, for instance, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
RFID etc. and at the same time store toms of data. This forms
the basic building block of the Digital Jewelry.
IV. COMPONENTS
Here are the pieces of computerized-jewelry phone and their
functions:
Earrings - Speakers embedded into these earrings will be the
phone's receiver.
Necklace - Users will talk into the necklace's embedded
microphone.
Ring - Perhaps the most interesting piece of the phone, this
"magic decoder ring” is equipped with light-emitting diodes
(LEDs) that flash to indicate an incoming call. It can also be
programmed to flash different colors to identify a particular
caller or indicate the importance of a call.
Together, the digital jewelry can work just like a conventional
cell phone, using the different wireless networking technologies,
or to be more specific Mobile computing innovations for
telecommunication. The different components are described in
the following subsections:
A. Necklace
Users will talk into the necklace's embedded microphone
They transfer the information in the forms of signals It consists
of sensors by which it will work as a microphone using the blue
tooth technology.
Fig. 2. Computerized Necklace
B. Ear-rings
Speakers embedded into these earrings will be the phone's
receiver, working as the already in use Bluetooth hands free
speakers.
A. Display
In digital jewelry display, every alphabet and number system has
found representation within the digital world i.e. either through
bits or symbols. For instance, 'dot-matrix’ is used to display
Chinese and Japanese and other character sets. LCDs (liquid-
crystal-displays) can also be used as the alternative display, as
often found in watches.
Electromagnetic properties and electronics are exploited to
display information through a screen or display of some kind
which can be LED 7-segment, LED 16-segment, OLEDs or other
programmable LEDs.
Further advancements can help in incorporating speaker, a single
flashing light, a sensor of some kind (such as a temperature
driven EL display), or other informational aesthetic which will
result in adding voice recognition feature to the display system.
The display layer is in fact the face of the device, which is
enclosed in a user friendly material such as plastic, metal, crystal,
or other material. It has external switches and buttons on its side
and a data-port for accessing the programmable electronic circuit
inside the device.
Fig. 7. Display Types for Digital Jewelry
B. Processor Technology
Unlike traditional microprocessors i.e software or single purpose
processor i.e hardware, digital jewelry use Application specific
processors. It is a programmable processor optimized for a
particular class of applications. There are two types of
application specific processors:
 Microcontrollers: Microcontroller is a microprocessor
that is optimized for embedded control applications
which typically monitor and set numerous single bit
control signals but do not perform large data
computations. For digital jewelry, a surface mounted
device (SMD) on a printed circuit board (PCB) with
resistors (R) and capacitors (C) i.e. microcontrollers
constitute the internal circuitry.
 Digital Signal Processors: Microprocessor designed
to perform common operations on digital signals
which are digital encodings of analog signals like
video and audio .
C. Electromagnetic Beads
They consist of interchangeable electromagnetic component
systems or devices. They are in fact strung together to form the
bracelet or necklace.
Beads may contain capacitors, solar panels, resistors, piezo
element, voltage regulator, crystal, or rechargeable battery.
D. Wireless Protocols
Advancements in the field of wireless networking and mobile
computing have made the idea of wearable computing to take
shape. The major wireless protocols proposed to be used are:
1) Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
2) Bluetooth
3) IEEE 802.11
 Communicator can be used as an MP3 player, video player and
cell phone.
VI. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS The Communicator runs on the company's Linux-based Nanix
There has been a successful implementation of above stated operating system
technologies to provide the fashionable as well as
technologically sound pieces of ‘jewelry’. Following are some of
the prototypes:

1) IBM’s Magic Decoder Ring

It flashes for phone calls and could also inform you that
email is piling up in your inbox. The flashing alert could
also indicate the urgency of the e-mail.

Fig. 12. Charmed Communicator

5) Java Ring
Dallas Semiconductor is developing a new Java-based,
computerized ring that will automatically unlock doors and log
on to computers. The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring,
16millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, which houses a 1-
milliontransistor processor, called an iButton.
Fig. 9. IBM’s Magic Decoder Ring The ring has 134 KB of RAM, 32 KB of ROM, a real-time clock
and a Java virtual machine, which is a piece of software that
2) IBM’s Mouse Ring recognizes the Java language and translates it for the user's
The mouse-ring that IBM is developing will use the company's computer system.
Track Point technology to wirelessly move the cursor on a
computer-monitor display.
On top of the ring is a little black ball that users will swivel to
move the cursor, in the same way that the TrackPoint button on
a laptop is used.
This Track Point ring will be very valuable when monitors shrink
to the size of watch face. In the coming age of ubiquitous
computing, displays will no longer be tied to walls

Fig. 13. Java Ring

VII. Digitized jewelry in life saving

Fig. 10. IBM’s Mouse Ring
3) IBM’s Prototype Bracelets Display
Researchers are overcoming several obstacles facing these new
wearable displays, the most important of which is the readability
of information displayed on these tiny devices.
events
Digitized devices can be also used to perform many lifesaving
actions by monitoring some critical conditions.
Life-saving For instance, if a person is unconscious after
suffering a sudden illness, the key information on the person's
condition can be read directly from the piece of jewelry with the
help of a mobile device. The same principle can be applied to a
lost child or runaway pet.

Visual effect and light jewelry A prototype for a visual

Fig 11: IBM’s Prototype Bracelets Display
4) Charmed Communicator
The eyepiece is a wearable, wireless, broadband-Internet device
that can be controlled by voice, pen or handheld keypad. The
effect jewel has been developed for the upcoming film Iron Sky
The Coming Race. In addition, aesthetically pleasing light-
emitting jewelry has been developed for general use - for
instance, a light-emitting necklace for men works as a substitute
for a necktie.
 IX. CONCLUSION
Digital Jewelry is in the initial phase of its development but has
a great future potential, as there are a lot of technological
advancements being made in the field of embedded computing
and wireless networking, which constitute the core of the
fashionable sound computerized jewelry.

On reviewing various aspects of digital communication, we

conclude that in coming future Bluetooth used in these devices
Fig 14: IBM visual effects can be replaced by wifi and li-fi for better efficiency of these
Digital bola necklace Foetuses can hear sounds from the devices.
outside world, which has been shown to be important for a child's
development and sense of security. For instance, classical music
has an impact on development. A digital bola necklace can
produce more versatile sound than a traditional bola necklace.
The traditional bola necklace is of Mexican origin. It is a hollow
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VIII. The Merits and Demerits

Merits:
1. It provides security.
For example, java ring is used to lock or unlock doors or
computers. As we use passwords and keys to lock our doors and
computers. We don’t need to remember all those passwords and
carry all those keys .so java ring is designed to provide security.
2. As computing devices are embedded it is not necessary to carry
cells or computers. Hence it is necessary to carry everywhere.
3. It helps in easy way of communication.

Demerits:
1. Charging capabilities.
2. Very expensive to afford.
3. Rays may be harmful.