From titanium smart rings to screen-free trackers and discreet AI pins, here are six stylish examples of wearable technology available now in Hong Kong
For the past decade, wearable technology has required users to make a trade: extract useful data from your everyday life in exchange for strapping a conspicuous slab of plastic on your wrist or face. As fashion business reporter Rachel Arthur, writing for the British newspaper The Telegraph, put it in 2014: “Why is wearable technology so damn ugly?”
Thankfully, the days of the Google Glass are long behind us—for better or for worse, the current generation of wearable technology is more discreet than ever. Think smart recording rings that weigh less than a wedding band, recorders that pass as lapel pins, and glasses that look indistinguishable from actual (cool) sunglasses. Hong Kong has become one of the easier places in Asia to acquire these devices at parity with global pricing. The six below are available locally, span roughly HK$1,000 to HK$11,000, and share one quality—restraint in their design.
Is it a little weird to track every health metric and record your life? Possibly. Can it be helpful? Certainly. Here are our picks.
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